Journal
GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 272, Issue -, Pages 93-108Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2018.12.006
Keywords
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; Follicle-stimulating hormone; Gonadotropins; Luteinizing hormone; Oryzias latipes; Recombinant proteins
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- Norwegian University of Life Sciences
- Research Council of Norway [248828 BioTek2021, 231767 FriPro]
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The two gonadotropins follicle-stimulating hormone (Fsh) and luteinizing hormone (Lh) are of particular importance within the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis of vertebrates. In the current study, we demonstrate the production and validation of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) recombinant (md) gonadotropins Fsh beta (mdFsh beta), Lh beta (mdLh beta), Fsh beta alpha (mdFsh beta alpha), and Lh beta alpha (mdLh beta alpha) by Pichia pastoris, the generation of specific rabbit antibodies against their respective beta subunits, and their use within the development and validation of competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for quantification of medaka Fsh and Lh. mdFsh and mdLh were produced as single-chain polypeptides by linking the alpha subunit with mdFsh beta or mdLh beta mature protein coding sequences to produce a tethered polypeptide with the beta-chain at the N-terminal and the alpha-chain at the C-terminal. The specificity of the antibodies raised against mdFsh beta and mdLh beta was determined by immunofluorescence (IF) for Fsh beta and Lh beta on medaka pituitary tissue, while comparison with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for fshb and lhb mRNA was used for validation. Competitive ELISAs were developed using antibodies against mdFsh beta or mdLh beta, and the tethered proteins mdFsh beta alpha or mdLh beta alpha for standard curves. The standard curve for the Fsh ELISA ranged from 97.6 pg/ml to 50 ng/ml, and for the Lh ELISA from 12.21 pg/ml to 6.25 ng/ml. The sensitivity of the assays for Fsh and Lh was 44.7 and 70.8 pg/ml, respectively. A profile of pituitary protein levels of medaka Fsh and Lh comparing juveniles with adults showed significant increase of protein amount from juvenile group (body length from 12 mm to 16.5 mm) to adult group (body length from 21 mm to 26.5 mm) for both hormones in male medaka. Comparing these data to a developmental profile of pituitary mRNA expression of medaka fshb and lhb, the mRNA expression of lhb also increased during male maturation and a linear regression analysis revealed a significant increase of lhb expression with increased body length that proposes a linear model. However, fshb mRNA expression did not change significantly during male development and therefore was not correlated with body length. In summary, we have developed and validated homologous ELISA assays for medaka Fsh and Lh based on proteins produced in P. pastoris, assays that will be used to study the functions and regulations of Fsh and Lh in more detail.
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