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CELL PROLIFERATION
Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cpr.13359
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This study demonstrates the critical role of Septin 9 in mouse oocyte meiotic cell cycle progression. Septin 9 regulates the kinetochore-microtubule connection and SAC protein localization on kinetochores, affecting the MI-AI transition as well as APC/C-CDC20 activity and CCNB1 degradation.
The anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) and its cofactors CDH1 and CDC20 regulate the accumulation/degradation of CCNB1 during mouse oocyte meiotic maturation. Generally, the CCNB1 degradation mediated by APC/C-CDC20 activity is essential for the transition from metaphase to anaphase. Here, by using siRNA and mRNA microinjection, as well as time-lapse live imaging, we showed that Septin 9, which mediates the binding of septins to microtubules, is critical for oocyte meiotic cell cycle progression. The oocytes were arrested at the MI stage and the connection between chromosome kinetochores and spindle microtubules was disrupted after Septin 9 depletion. As it is well known that spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) is an important regulator of the MI-AI transition, we thus detected the SAC activity and the expression of CDC20 and CCNB1 which were the downstream proteins of SAC during this critical period. The signals of Mad1 and BubR1 still remained on the kinetochores of chromosomes in Septin 9 siRNA oocytes at 9.5 h of in vitro culture when most control oocytes entered anaphase I. The expression of CCNB1 did not decrease and the expression of CDC20 did not increase at 9.5 h in Septin 9 siRNA oocytes. Microinjection of mRNA encoding Septin 9 or CDC20 could partially rescue MI arrest caused by Septin 9 siRNA. These results suggest that Septin 9 is required for meiotic MI-AI transition by regulating the kinetochore-microtubule connection and SAC protein localization on kinetochores, whose effects are transmitted to APC/C-CDC20 activity and CCNB1 degradation in mouse oocytes.
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