Ativação de genes apoptóticos no bloqueio do desenvolvimento em embriões bovinos / Activation of apoptotic genes at developmental block in bovine embryo development
AUTOR(ES)
Sylvia Sanches Cortezzi
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
Maternal-zygotic transition is a complex phenomenon characterized by the initiation of transcription in the embryo and the transition of maternal mRNA with embryonic mRNA. It is believed that the mRNAs and proteins synthethized by the oocyte during its growth and final maturation allow the zygote to develop during the early stages of embryo development up to the 8 cell-stage, the moment when the bovine embryo acquires transcriptional competence. Competent embryos are able to develop until blastocyst, while incompetent embryos block. Since the blockage occurs during embryo genome activation, we developed the hypothesis that gene transcription in incompetent embryos is associated with the blockage, instead of passive blockage. The aim of this work was to identify, categorize and analyze gene expression differences between fast cleavage and slow cleavage embryos, and discover possible signaling pathways to cell death or cell survival. We used a macroarray membrane spotted with human genes related to cell cycle and hybridizated with a radioactive labeled aRNA from fast or slow in vitro produced embryos. Real-time PCR and signaling pathways analysis were designed for further validation of the array. The mean similarity between human and bovine genes was 89,3%. According to the array membranes, it was possible to identify 120 genes differentially expressed between slow and fast cleavage embryos. Hence, the majority of the genes were more expressed in slow embryos (100 genes versus 20 genes in fast group). Among genes more expressed at fast embryos, 40% were identified as protein binding and 25% have catalytic activity, with similar results in slow embryos. In one hand, differences between fast and slow embryos transcripts were not confirmed by real-time PCR analysis. But on the other hand, the differentially expressed genes are somehow related to and constitutively present in some recognized death pathways. Together, these results presented herein suggest that embryonic genome activation is necessary for survival or cell death signaling. Moreover, developmental block is not a passive pathway, but rather a very active transcriptional pathway, leading to activation of cell survival genes prior to genes related to death in slow-developing embryos.
ASSUNTO(S)
cattle genome activation ativação do genoma oócito programmed cell death morte celular programada oocyte bovino
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