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抑制素α亚基片段P33对大鼠 张江红 俞瑾 丰有吉 倪江 程治平 孙颖 鲁桂琛 吴燕婉 李伟雄 摘要 我室先前的工作表明,抑制素α亚基片段P33显著抑制离体培养大鼠黄体细胞的孕酮分泌,整体实验显示P33促进黄体功能萎缩和细胞凋亡。本实验进一步在细胞水平探讨P33促进黄体细胞凋亡的作用机制。应用DNA电泳检测技术、DNA荧光(AO-EB
PI)染色和流式细胞分析方法观察了P33对PMSG-hCG假孕大鼠胶原酶DNA酶分散的黄体细胞的自发凋亡的影响。结果三种方法一致显示,P33
(1 μg/ml)促进黄体细胞的自发凋亡。阻断酪氨酸蛋白激酶活性(genistein 50 μg)则抑制P33诱导的黄体凋亡;而阻断RNA和蛋白质合成(Cyx,50
μg/ml;Act D,50 μg/ml)均不抑制P33促进的黄体细胞凋亡。结果表明,P33促进培养大鼠黄体细胞的自发凋亡,其作用机制可能与TPK途径有关。本实验为抑制素α亚单位或其相关衍生物可能是卵巢局部调节因子之一的假说提供了又一证据。 EFFECT OF HUMAN INHIBIN α-FRAGMENT ZHANG JIANG-HONG, YU JIN, FENG YOU-JI ABSTRACT Recently,increasing
evidence suggests that α inhibin or related proteins may be a functional
regulator in the ovary,which is independent of hetero-dimer inhibin.In our
previous study,it was demonstrated that human inhibin α-N-terminal fragment
Tyr-1-32 (P33) significantly inhibited progesterone production by
rat corpus luteal cells in vitro,and stimulated luteal functional regression
and apoptosis in vivo.In the present work,the action of P33 on
apoptosis was further studied in vitro in cultured rat CL cells.Gel
electrophoretic analysis for detection of oligonucleosomal DNA
fragmentation,AO-EB or PI assays and flow cytometry were used to observe the
action of P33 on the occurrence of spontaneous apoptosis by collegenase-DNase
dispersed CL cells,obtained from PMSG-hCG induced pseudopregnent rats.The
results showed that P33 (1 μg/ml) stimulated spontaneous apoptosis
of CL cells.The inhibitor of tyrosine protein kinase,genistein (50
μg/ml),inhibited P33 enhanced spontaneous apoptosis.RNA and
protein synthesis inhibitors cycloheximide (Cyx,50 μg/ml) and actinomycin
D(Act D,50 μg/ml) did not protect the cells from apoptosis stimulated by P33.The
results suggest that P33 stimulates spontaneous apoptosis in
cultured rat CL cells with the involvement of tyrosine specific protein
kinase system.This work provides further evidence for the hypothesis that α
inhibin or related protein might be a functional regulator in the ovary. 近年来,下丘脑-垂体-卵巢轴系统调控机理研究的一个突破性进展,就是发现抑制素-激活素-卵泡抑素轴这一调控垂体FSH-LH分泌的新家族。α,βA,βB三种亚单位在二硫键联接下的不同组合形成了作用相反的两个二聚体:抑制素(αβA,αβB)和激活素(βAβB,βAβA,βBβB),α亚单位为抑制素所特有,只有二聚体抑制素才抑制垂体FSH的分泌[1,2]。但是新近的研究表明,在多种动物卵泡液中有大量游离的α亚单位前体蛋白存在,大鼠颗粒细胞分泌游离的α亚单位[3];大鼠卵巢α亚单位的表达远远高于β亚单位,并且很多组织只表达α亚单位mRNA[4],α亚单位基因纯合子缺失可致小鼠性腺瘤[5]等等。所有这些均提示,α亚单位或其前体蛋白虽然没有垂体生物活性(不抑制FSH分泌),但很可能具有不同于二聚体抑制素的局部的旁分泌/自分泌调节作用。为了证明α亚单位可能具有局部调节作用,我们与中国医学科学院药物研究所合作合成了四个抑制素α亚单位片段,首先从功能调节角度观察了其对大鼠卵巢细胞激素分泌的作用。结果表明:α亚单位片段极显著抑制黄体细胞孕酮分泌[6,7],整体实验显示P33促进黄体功能萎缩和结构萎缩[8],本实验进一步在细胞水平观察P33对黄体细胞凋亡的影响。 1 材料与方法 1.1 主要试剂、仪器 DNA提取用PMSF、NP-40、EDTA、EGTA、SDS、琼脂糖、蛋白酶K和RNA酶A均为Sigma公司产品,按《分子克隆》实验指南配制。pBR322DNA/BstNI购自中国医学科学院基础医学研究所。Cycloheximide(Cyx)为瑞士产品,actinomycin
D(Act D)、genistein、胶原酶Ⅱ、DNA酶Ⅰ为Sigma公司产品。Beckman高速离心机,Perkin-Elmer公司紫外分光光度仪,美国IKegami
Electromics公司DNA指纹仪,瑞典LKB-Produkter AB激光密度仪。 2 结果 2.1 LMW DNA电泳分析P33对培养黄体细胞凋亡的影响及作用机制 |




图1 P33 加强离体培养大鼠黄体细胞的自发凋亡
Fig.1 Enhanced spontaneous apoptosis by P33 in cultured rat corpus
luteal cells
Low molecular weight (LMW) DNA was extracted directly from nuclei (A) or from
those after 2 h autodigestion (B).The densities of densitometric scans of
internucleosomal DNA (<800,C) and the persentage of LMW DNA (D) were in
correspondence with A.C: from duplicated independent experiments,SE did not exceed
25% of the mean.Lane 1: genestein+P33;2:genestein;3: P33;4:
Zn2++P33;5: Zn2+;6: control.
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Genistein是特异的酪氨酸蛋白激酶抑制剂,Genistein 50 μg与P33 (1 μg/ml)合用则抑制P33诱导的黄体凋亡,这一作用在提取细胞核将核于缓冲液B中37℃水育自消化2 h,然后再提取LMW的DNA电泳图上,尤为明显(图1B),低分子量DNA含量的计算结果与电泳结果一致,P33组低分子量DNA含量在与Genistein合用时下降至对照组水平(图1C,D)。表明P33促进的培养大鼠黄体细胞自发凋亡的作用机制可能与TPK途径有关。Cyx 和Act D 分别是RNA和蛋白质合成抑制剂,当 Cyx (50 μg/ml),Act D (50 μg/ml)分别与P33(1 μg/ml)合用时,均不逆转P33促进的黄体细胞凋亡(图2)。这些结果表明,P33刺激的离体培养大鼠黄体细胞的自发凋亡与RNA和蛋白质合成途径无关。 |


图2 P33刺激的离体培养大鼠黄体细胞的自发凋亡与RNA和蛋白质合成途径无关
Fig.2 Spontaneous apoptosis stimulated by P33 not through the RNA
and protein synthesis pathway
DNA was extracted directly and LMW DNA for electrophoresis (equal volume of DNA
in each lane) (A) and densitometric scans of internucleosomal DNA fragments of
A-a (360~400 bp),A-b (A) (540~600 bp) from right to left (B)corresponding with
A.
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2.2 DNA荧光染色分析 |



图3 培养黄体细胞DNA荧光染色分析(AO-EB荧光染色)
Fig.3 Staining feature of cultured corpus luteal cells by acridine
orange/ethidium bromide
Left: control;middle: Zn2+ group;right: P33 group all
160×.
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2.3 流式细胞术分析 |




图4 流式细胞仪分析培养黄体细胞的DNA含量分布
Fig.4 Size distribution of DNA from cultured rat corpus luteal cells by
flowcytometry
A. The ordinate indicates the number of cells in each size category;the
abscissa is an arbitrary scale of cell size.B.The do tplot histograms show the
dot plots of total cells.Each dot represents a single event.
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3 讨论 黄体细胞凋亡机制的分析目前还停留在离体模型的探索水平,没有深入[13],以大鼠黄体为对象的在体和离体凋亡研究实验都尚未见报道。抑制素α亚基片段P33显著抑制离体培养大鼠黄体细胞的孕酮分泌[
6,7],整体实验显示P33促进黄体功能萎缩和结构萎缩[8],因此,本实验进一步在细胞水平观察P33对黄体凋亡的影响。细胞凋亡是一个主动过程,在多种组织依赖RNA和蛋白质的合成[14,15],并有第二信使系统介与;Zn2+是公认的凋亡过程中核酸内切酶的抑制剂[16,17],所有这些是否具有种属或组织特异性,是否介与P33促进黄体细胞凋亡的过程,本实验对此进行了探索。 *国家计划生育委员会85攻关项目资助 (No.85-918-05-02) 作者单位:张江红 俞瑾 丰有吉:上海医科大学妇产科研究所,上海 200011 参考文献 [1]Rivier J,Spiess J,McClintock R,et al.Purification and
partial characterization of inhibin from porcine fol~licular fluid.Biophys
Res Comm,1985,133: 120~127. 1997-12-08收稿 1998-03-30修回 |