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The potential roles of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) during the maturation and aging of oocytes produced by a marine protostome worm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2017

Stephen A. Stricker  and
Niharika Ravichandran
Stephen A. Stricker*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
Niharika Ravichandran
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131USA.
*
All correspondence to: Stephen A. Stricker. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. Tel: +1 505 2771883. Fax: +1 505 2770304. E-mail: sstr@um.edu
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Summary

Previous investigations have indicated that c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) regulates the maturation and aging of oocytes produced by deuterostome animals. In order to assess the roles of this kinase in a protostome, oocytes of the marine nemertean worm Cerebratulus were stimulated to mature and subsequently aged before being probed with phospho-specific antibodies against active forms of JNK and maturation-promoting factor (MPF). Based on blots of maturing oocytes, a 40-kD putative JNK is normally activated during germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD), which begins at 30 min post-stimulation with seawater, whereas treating immature oocytes with JNK inhibitors downregulates both the 40-kD JNK signal and GVBD, collectively suggesting a 40-kD JNK may facilitate oocyte maturation. Along with this JNK activity, mature oocytes also exhibit high levels of MPF at 2 h post-stimulation. However, by ~6–8 h post-GVBD, mature oocytes lose the 40-kD JNK signal, and at ~20–30 h of aging, an ~48-kD phospho-JNK band arises as oocytes deactivate MPF and begin to lyse during a necroptotic-like mode of death. Accordingly, JNK inhibitors reduce the aging-related 48-kD JNK phosphorylation while maintaining MPF activity and retarding oocyte degradation. Such findings suggest that a 48-kD JNK may help deactivate MPF and trigger death. Possible mechanisms by which JNK activation either together with, or independently of, protein neosynthesis might stimulate oocyte degradation are discussed.

Keywords

CerebratulusGVBDMPFnemerteanSP600125
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Research Article
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Zygote , Volume 25 , Issue 6 , December 2017 , pp. 686 - 696
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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