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Seminal extracellular vesicles subsets modulate gene expression in cumulus cells of porcine in vitro matured oocytes

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22004-7

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  1. European Commission [H2020-MSCA-IF-2019-891382]
  2. European Union [NextGenerationEU -ALMArie CURIE 2021 SupER]
  3. Italian Ministry of University [D.M. 737/2021, J45F21001470005]
  4. Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain [PID2020-113493RB-I00, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033]
  5. Catalan Agency for Management of University
  6. Regional Government of Catalonia, Spain [2017-SGR-1229, 2020-FI-B-00412]
  7. Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)

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Seminal plasma extracellular vesicles (EVs) can modulate ovary function, but do not affect oocyte maturation. Only large EVs have an effect on cumulus cells function.
Seminal plasma (SP), a fluid composed mainly by secretions from accessory sex glands, contains a heterogenous population of extracellular vesicles (EVs), involved in several reproductive physiological processes. Seminal plasma has been found to modulate ovary function, in terms of hormone secretion and immune regulation. This study evaluated the potential effect of SP-EV-subsets on the modulation of cumulus-oocyte-complex (COCs) physiology during in vitro maturation (IVM). Two SP-EV-subsets, small-EVs (S-EVs) and large-EVs (L-EVs), were isolated from pig SP by size-exclusion-chromatography. Next, COCs were IVM in the absence (control) or presence of each SP-EV-subset to evaluate their uptake by COCs (PKH67-EVs labelling) and their effect on oocyte and cumulus cells (CCs) (gene expression, and progesterone and estradiol-17 beta levels). S-EVs and L-EVs were able to bind CCs but not oocytes. Supplementation with L-EVs induced changes (P <= 0.05) in the transcript levels of oocyte maturation- (HAS2) and steroidogenesis-related genes (CYP11A1 and HSD3B1) in CCs. No effect on nuclear oocyte maturation and progesterone and estradiol-17 beta levels was observed when COCs were IVM with any of the two SP-EV-subsets. In conclusion, while SP-EV-subsets can be integrated by CCs during IVM, they do not affect oocyte maturation and only L-EVs are able to modulate CCs function, mainly modifying the expression of steroidogenesis-related genes.

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