Acquisition of luteolytic capacity involves differential regulation by prostaglandin F2alpha of genes involved in progesterone biosynthesis in the porcine corpus luteum
2005
Diaz, F.J. | Wiltbank, M.C.
Luteolytic capacity is defined as the ability of corpora lutea (CL) to undergo luteolysis after prostaglandin (PG) F2* treatment. The mechanisms causing acquisition of luteolytic capacity are not yet identified but CL without luteolytic capacity have PGF2* receptors and respond to PGF2* with some changes in gene expression. Inhibition of progesterone biosynthesis is a key feature of luteolysis and therefore we postulated that genes involved in progesterone biosynthesis would be regulated by PGF2* differently in CL with or without luteolytic capacity. Gilts on day 9 after estrus (lack luteolytic capacity) or day 17 of pseudopregnancy (with luteolytic capacity) were treated with saline or a PGF2* analog (cloprostenol) and CL were collected 0.5 (Experiment I) or 10 h (Experiment II) later. In Experiment III, large luteal cells from CL on day 9 or 17 were cultured for 1, 12 and 24 h with or without PGF2*. PGF2* decreased LDL receptor mRNA (27%), steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) mRNA (41%), StAR protein (75%), LH receptor mRNA (55%), and LH receptor protein (45%) at 10 h after treatment in day 17 but not day 9 CL. PGF2* increased DAX-1 mRNA at 0.5 h (43%) and 10 h (46%) after PGF2* in day 17 but not day 9 CL but decreased 3βHSD mRNA (20% at 10 h) in both days 9 and 17 CL. In vitro, PGF2* decreased StAR mRNA at 12 h only in day 17 luteal cells; however, continuous treatment with PGF2* for 24 h decreased StAR mRNA in both days 9 and 17 luteal cells. Thus, luteolytic capacity involves a critical change in responsiveness of DAX-1, StAR, and LH receptor to PGF2* that results in inhibition of luteal progesterone biosynthesis.
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