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1-Methyladenine: a starfish oocyte maturation-inducing substance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2018

Masatoshi Mita
Masatoshi Mita*
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, School of Education, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, and Teikyo Junior College, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0071, Japan
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1-Methyladenine (1-MeAde) in starfish was the first compound to be identified as an oocyte maturation-inducing substance (MIS) among invertebrates in 1969 by Kanatani and co-workers. In starfish, the ripe ovary contains a huge number of fully grown oocytes of almost equal size. Each oocyte possesses a large nucleus (germinal vesicle, GV), which is arrested in late prophase of the first maturation division. The oocyte is surrounded by a single follicle layer. Such immature oocytes are not fertilisable. Resumption of meiosis in immature oocytes can be induced by 1-MeAde, and the mature oocytes thus become fertilisable (Kanatani et al., 1969; Kanatani, 1985). 1-MeAde is produced by ovarian follicle cells upon stimulation with a gonad-stimulating substance (GSS) released from the radial nerves (Fig. 1).

It has been demonstrated that GSS is a peptide hormone (Kanatani et al., 1971). The action of GSS on 1-MeAde production in follicle cells appears to be mediated by its receptor, G-proteins and adenylyl cyclase (Mita & Nagahama, 1991). These findings suggest that a G-protein coupled (seven transmembrane type) receptor is involved in GSS signal transduction, similarly to the pituitary-gonadal axis in vertebrates.

Thus, using degenerate probes derived from consensus sequences of the mammalian glycoprotein hormone (GTH and TSH) receptors, cDNA was cloned from mRNA of ovaries of Asterina pectinifera. The cDNA showed striking structural homology with members of the glycoprotein hormone receptor family in the transmembrane region, and contained a very large extracellular region. Expression was observed in isolated ovarian follicle cells. Thus, it seems likely that the glycoprotein hormone receptor (GTHR) family gene is related to GSS receptor in ovarian follicle cells. The phylogenic relatedness of the starfish GTHR was also assessed in relation to other vertebrate GTHRs. The analysis showed that the starfish gene diverged before differentiation of the gonadotropin (LH and FSH) and TSH receptors in vertebrates.

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Zygote , Volume 8 , supplement S1: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Fertilization and Development of Sea Urchin and Marine Invertebrates , December 1999 , pp. S9 - S11
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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