期刊
JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY
卷 233, 期 9, 页码 6952-6964出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.26484
关键词
cumulus cells; gene silencing; glucose metabolism pathways; oocyte maturation; RNA interference
资金
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFC1001601, 2017YFC1001602]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB138503]
- China National Natural Science Foundation [31772599, 31702114]
- Funds of Shandong Double Tops Program [SYL2017YSTD12]
In previous studies on glucose metabolism during in vitro maturation, intact cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) were treated with enzyme inhibitors/activators. Because inhibitors/activators may have non-specificity and/or toxicity, and culture of COCs cannot differentiate whether glucose metabolism of cumulus cells (CCs) or that of the oocyte supports oocyte maturation, results from the previous studies must be verified by silencing genes in either CCs or cumulus-denuded oocytes (DOs). In this study, RNAi was adopted to specify the effects of glucose metabolism in CCs or DOs on oocyte maturation. Although silencing either glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) or glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) genes in CCs significantly decreased competence of the cocultured DOs, silencing G6PD impaired competence to a greater extent. While silencing G6PD or GAPDH of CCs decreased glutathione and ATP contents of cocultured DOs to similar extents, silencing G6PD increased oxidative stress as well. Analysis on metabolite contents and oxidative stress index and culture of DOs in medium conditioned with gene-silenced CCs indicated that CCs supported oocyte maturation by releasing glucose metabolites. Silencing mitochondrial pyruvate carrier 1 or NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquintone) flavoprotein 1 of DOs significantly impaired their maturation. The results have unequivocally confirmed that CCs promote oocyte maturation by releasing glucose metabolites from both pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) and glycolysis. Pyruvate is transferred into DOs by mitochondrial pyruvate carrier (MPC) and utilized through mitochondrial electron transport to support maturation.
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