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Biallelic variants in the NSUN2 gene cause a rare intellectual disability and female infertility in humans. However, the function and mechanism of NSUN2 during mouse oocyte meiotic maturation and early embryonic development are unknown. Here, we show that NSUN2 is important for mouse oocyte meiotic maturation and early embryonic development. Specifically, NSUN2 is required for ovarian development and oocyte meiosis, and deletion of Nsun2 reduces oocyte maturation and increases the rates of misaligned chromosomes and aberrant spindles. In addition, Nsun2 deficiency results in a low blastocyst rate and impaired blastocyst quality. Strikingly, loss of Nsun2 leads to approximately 35% of embryos being blocked at the 2-cell stage, and Nsun2 knockdown impairs zygotic genome activation at the 2-cell stage. Taken together, these findings suggest that NSUN2 plays a critical role in mouse oocyte meiotic maturation and early embryonic development, and provide key resources for elucidating female infertility with NSUN2 mutations.
Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture, College of Animal Sciences and Technology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Animal Sciences and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, People's Republic of China
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We recently reported that electrical activation followed by secondary chemical activation greatly enhanced the developmental competence of in vitro matured porcine oocytes fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). We hypothesized that sperm treatment with disulfide bond reducing agents will enhance the development competence of porcine embryos produced by this ICSI procedure. We examined the effects of glutathione (GSH), dithiothreitol (DTT), GSH or DTT in combination with heparin on sperm DNA structure, paternal chromosomal integrity, pronuclear formation, and developmental competence of in vitro matured porcine oocytes after ICSI. Acridine orange staining and flow cytometry based sperm chromatin structure assay were used to determine sperm DNA integrity by calculating the cells outside the main population (COMP αT). No differences were observed in COMP αT values among GSH-treated and control groups. COMP αT values in GSH-treated groups were significantly lower than that in DTT-treated groups. Following ICSI, GSH treatments did not significantly alter paternal chromosomal integrity. Paternal chromosomal integrity in sperm treated with DTT plus or minus heparin was also the lowest among all groups. GSH-treated sperm yielded the highest rates of normal fertilization and blastocyst formation, which were significantly higher than that of control and DTT-treated groups. The majority of blastocysts derived from control and GSH-treated spermatozoa were diploid, whereas blastocysts derived from DTT-treated spermatozoa were haploid. In conclusion, sperm treatment with GSH enhanced the developmental capacity of porcine embryos produced by our optimized ICSI procedure.
State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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College of veterinary medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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Long ncRNAs regulate a complex array of fundamental biological processes, while its molecular regulatory mechanism in Leydig cells (LCs) remains unclear. In the present study, we established the lncRNA LOC102176306/miR-1197-3p/peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1 alpha (PPARGC1A) regulatory network by bioinformatic prediction, and investigated its roles in goat LCs. We found that lncRNA LOC102176306 could efficiently bind to miR-1197-3p and regulate PPARGC1A expression in goat LCs. Downregulation of lncRNA LOC102176306 significantly supressed testosterone (T) synthesis and ATP production, decreased the activities of antioxidant enzymes and mitochondrial complex I and complex III, caused the loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, and inhibited the proliferation of goat LCs by decreasing PPARGC1A expression, while these effects could be restored by miR-1197-3p inhibitor treatment. In addition, miR-1197-3p mimics treatment significantly alleviated the positive effects of lncRNA LOC102176306 overexpression on T and ATP production, antioxidant capacity and proliferation of goat LCs. Taken together, lncRNA LOC102176306 functioned as a sponge for miR-1197-3p to maintain PPARGC1A expression, thereby affecting the steroidogenesis, cell proliferation and oxidative stress of goat LCs. These findings extend our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of T synthesis, cell proliferation and oxidative stress of LCs.
