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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Dynamics of microtubules, motor proteins and 20S proteasomes during bovine oocyte IVM

S. E. Racedo A C , M. C. Branzini B , D. Salamone A , C. Wójcik D , V. Y. Rawe B and H. Niemann C E
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A Laboratorio de Biotecnología Animal, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av. San Martin 4453 (C1417DSE), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

B Centro de Estudios en Ginecología y Reproducción, CEGyR, Viamonte 1432 (C1055ABB), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

C Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Farm Animal Genetics (FLI), Mariensee, 31535 Neustadt, Germany.

D Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine-Evansville, 8600 University Boulevard, Evansville, IN 47712, USA.

E Corresponding author. Email: heiner.niemann@fli.bund.de

Reproduction, Fertility and Development 21(2) 304-312 https://doi.org/10.1071/RD08111
Submitted: 20 May 2008  Accepted: 15 August 2008   Published: 27 January 2009

Abstract

The present study investigated the distribution of cytoplasmic dynein, dynactin and 20S proteasomes in oocytes isolated from small (<2 mm) and large (2–8 mm) follicles during IVM. Immediately after chromatin condensation (germinal vesicle (GV) breakdown), dynactin was closely associated with the chromatin and interacted with tubulin at the MI and MII spindles in oocytes recovered from large follicles. Dynactin showed perinuclear concentration. Dynein was homogeneously distributed in the cytoplasm of GV oocytes in both groups and was associated with the chromatin at the MI and MII spindle. The 20S proteasomes were found predominantly in the nucleus at the GV stage and were associated with the chromatin up to the MII stage in both groups of oocytes. The use of sodium orthovanadate, an inhibitor or phosphatase and ATPase activity, and nocodazole, a known disruptor of microtubules, affected the localisation of proteasomes in the meiotic stages. The results demonstrate the distinct dynamics of molecular motors and proteasomes during bovine oocyte IVM, their possible relationship with the developmental competence of the oocyte and the link between microtubules, their associated molecular motors and the transport of proteasomes during bovine female meiosis.

Additional keywords: developmental competence, follicle size, molecular motors.


Acknowledgements

The technical assistance of Sabine Klein, Dieter Bunke, Miguel Velazquez, Khursheed Iqbal, Cristian Alvarez Sedó, Paolo Catalano and Roberto Fernandez is gratefully acknowledged. The authors acknowledge the gift of anti-β5 proteasomal antibodies from Dr George N. DeMartino (UT South-western, Dallas, TX, USA). This work was supported, in part, by CEGyR Foundation. SER was fellow from the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET).


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