期刊
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
卷 79, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-022-04141-4
关键词
RNA-binding proteins; Meiosis; mRNA homeostasis; Oocyte; Zygote; Maternal-to-zygotic transition; Tumorigenesis
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31930031, 31890781]
Putative RNA-binding proteins, ZAR1 and ZAR2, have been identified as maternal factors involved in oogenesis and embryogenesis. The C-terminus of ZAR proteins, with a conserved CxxC structure, is reported to be the functional domain. ZAR proteins bind to maternal transcripts and inhibit translation in immature growing oocytes, but promote translation in fully grown mouse oocytes. Recent studies also suggest their involvement in tumorigenesis.
Putative RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), zygote arrested-1 (ZAR1), and ZAR2 (also known as ZAR1L), have been identified as maternal factors that mainly function in oogenesis and embryogenesis. Despite divergence in their spatio-temporal expression among species, the CxxC structure of the C-terminus of ZAR proteins is highly conserved and is reported to be the functional domain for the activity of the RBPs of ZAR proteins. In oocytes from Xenopus laevis and zebrafish, ZAR proteins have been reported to bind to maternal transcripts and inhibit translation in immature growing oocytes, whereas in fully grown mouse oocytes, they promote the translation during meiotic maturation. Thus, ZAR1 and ZAR2 may be required for the maternal-to-zygotic transition by stabilizing the maternal transcriptome in oocytes with partial functional redundancy. In addition, recent studies have suggested non-ovarian expression and function of ZAR proteins, particularly their involvement in tumorigenesis. ZAR proteins are potentially associated with tumor suppressors and can serve as epigenetically inactivated cancer biomarkers. In this review, studies on Zar1/2 are systematically summarized, and some issues that require discussion and further investigation are introduced as perspectives.
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