期刊
DEVELOPMENT
卷 141, 期 23, 页码 4618-4627出版社
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.110544
关键词
Neat1; Paraspeckles; Corpus luteum; Progesterone; Sfpq; Stochastic failure
资金
- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan (MEXT)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26113002, 24688028] Funding Source: KAKEN
Neat1 is a non-protein-coding RNA that serves as an architectural component of the nuclear bodies known as paraspeckles. Although cell-based studies indicate that Neat1 is a crucial regulator of gene expression, its physiological relevance remains unclear. Here, we find that Neat1 knockout (KO) mice stochastically fail to become pregnant despite normal ovulation. Unilateral transplantation of wildtype ovaries or the administration of progesterone partially rescued the phenotype, suggesting that corpus luteum dysfunction and concomitant low progesterone were the primary causes of the decreased fertility. In contrast to the faint expression observed in most of the adult tissues, Neat1 was highly expressed in the corpus luteum, and the formation of luteal tissue was severely impaired in nearly half of the Neat1 KO mice. These observations suggest that Neat1 is essential for the formation of the corpus luteum and for the subsequent establishment of pregnancy under a suboptimal condition that has not yet been identified.
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