Journal
CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 18, Pages 4038-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.076
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- Tachibana lab
- Herzfelder Foundation [P 30613-B21]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [W1238-B20]
- L'Oreal Austria Fellowship for Women in Science
- European Research Council [ERC-StG0336460, ERC-CoG 818556]
- HFSP project [RGP0057-2018]
- Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Max Planck Society
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The study shows that reducing ovulation can delay oocyte aging and decrease chromosomal abnormalities in eggs. Protecting Rec8 from loss can maintain chromosome cohesion and preserve 3D chromatin structure, leading to the production of euploid eggs.
The frequency of egg aneuploidy and trisomic pregnancies increases with maternal age. To what extent individual approaches can delay the maternal age effectis unclear because multiple causes contribute to chromosomal abnormalities in mammalian eggs. We propose that ovulation frequency determines the physiological aging of oocytes, a key aspect of which is the ability to accurately segregate chromosomes and produce euploid eggs. To test this hypothesis, ovulations were reduced using successive pregnancies, hormonal contraception, and a pre-pubertal knockout mouse model, and the effects on chromosome segregation and egg ploidy were examined. We show that each intervention reduces chromosomal abnormalities in eggs of aged mice, suggesting that ovulation reduction delays oocyte aging. The protective effect can be partly explained by retention of chromosomal Rec8-cohesin that maintains sister chromatid cohesion in meiosis. In addition, single-nucleus Hi-C (snHi-C) revealed deterioration in the 3D chromatin structure including an increase in extruded loop sizes in long-lived oocytes. Artificial cleavage of Rec8 is sufficient to increase extruded loop sizes, suggesting that cohesin complexes maintaining cohesion restrict loop extrusion. These findings suggest that ovulation suppression protects against Rec8 loss, thereby maintaining both sister chromatid cohesion and 3D chromatin structure and promoting production of euploid eggs. We conclude that the maternal age effect can be delayed in mice. An implication of this work is that long-term ovulation-suppressing conditions can potentially reduce the risk of aneuploid pregnancies at advanced maternal age.
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