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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11002-4
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- AMED-LEAP [21gm0010004h9905]
- KAKENHI [20K21379, 20K15984]
- AMED-CREST [JP21gm1210013]
- Nagai Memorial Research Scholarship from the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan [N-190601]
- JST SPRING [J210002136]
- Tohoku University, Division for Interdisciplinary Advanced Research and Education
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20K21379, 20K15984] Funding Source: KAKEN
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This study analyzed the function of lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (Lpgat1) in zebrafish. The results revealed that Lpgat1 plays a critical role in sperm fertilization and embryonic development by producing specific phospholipid molecular species.
Phospholipids in the membrane consist of diverse pairs of fatty acids bound to a glycerol backbone. The biological significance of the diversity, however, remains mostly unclear. Part of this diversity is due to lysophospholipid acyltransferases (LPLATs), which introduce a fatty acid into lysophospholipids. The human genome has 14 LPLATs and most of them are highly conserved in vertebrates. Here, we analyzed the function of one of these enzymes, lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (Lpgat1), in zebrafish. We found that the reproduction of heterozygous (lpgat1(+/-)) male mutants was abnormal. Crosses between heterozygous males and wild-type females produced many eggs with no obvious cleavage, whereas eggs produced by crosses between heterozygous females and wild-type males cleaved normally. Consistent with this, spermatozoa from heterozygous males had reduced motility and abnormal morphology. We also found that the occurrence of lpgat1 homozygous (lpgat1(-/-)) mutants was far lower than expected. In addition, downregulation of lpgat1 by morpholino antisense oligonucleotides resulted in severe developmental defects. Lipidomic analysis revealed that selective phospholipid species with stearic acid and docosahexaenoic acid were reduced in homozygous larvae and spermatozoa from heterozygotes. These results suggest that the specific phospholipid molecular species produced by Lpgat1 have an essential role in sperm fertilization and in embryonic development.
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