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Effect of Thymeleatoxin on Mouse Oocyte Maturation  

Lim E. A. (Dept. of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Dankook University)
Shin J. H. (Dept. of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Dankook University)
Choi T. S. (Dept. of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Dankook University)
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Reproductive and Developmental Biology / v.28, no.3, 2004 , pp. 187-190 More about this Journal
Abstract
Protein kinase C exists as a family of serine/threonine kinases which are broadly classified into three groups as cPKC nPKC and aPKC depending on their cofactor requirements. Previous studies have shown that the role of PKC in the process of mouse oocyte maturation. For example, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate which is known as an activator of cPKC and nPKC inhibits germinal vesicle break down and 1st polar body extrusion in maturing oocytes. In this study, the effect of thymeleatoxin, a specific activator of cPKC not nPKC, was tested comparing with PMA to address the roles of cPKC and nPKC during mouse oocyte maturation. Cumulus-oocyte complex were cultured in M16 medium for 6 or 12 hr with each of these PKC activators to investigate the effect of germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) or the extrusion of 1st polar body. IC/sup 50/ of GVBD were at concentrations of 50nM in PMA and 400nM in thymeleatoxin and of 1st polar body extrusion were 20nM in PMA and 200nM in thy- meleatoxin. The results suggest that activation of nPKC is more closely related to the inhibition of GVBD and 1st polar body extrusion than activation of cPKC. Additionally, we found that the oocytes inhibited 1st polar body extrusion with PMA or thymeleatoxin were arrested in metaphase I of first meiosis.
Keywords
Thymeleatoxin; Mouse oocyte maturation; PKC; GVBD; PB extrusion;
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