Post‐ovulatory aging is associated with altered patterns for small ubiquitin‐like modifier (SUMO) proteins and SUMO‐specific proteases

Author:

Feitosa Weber Beringui1ORCID,Morris Patricia L.12ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council New York New York USA

2. The Rockefeller University New York New York USA

Abstract

AbstractMammalian oocytes are ovulated arrested at metaphase of the second meiotic division. If they are not fertilized within a short period, the oocyte undergoes several progressive morphological, structural, and molecular changes during a process called oocyte aging. Herein, we focused on those functional events associated with proper cytoskeleton organization and those that correlate with spindle displacement and chromosome misalignment or scatter. Post‐translational modifications by Small Ubiquitin‐like Modifier (SUMO) proteins are involved in spindle organization and here we demonstrate that the SUMO pathway is involved in spindle morphology changes and chromosome movements during oocyte aging. SUMO‐2/3 as well as the SUMO‐specific proteases SENP‐2 localization are affected by postovulatory aging in vitro. Consistent with these findings, UBC9 decreases during oocyte aging while differential ubiquitination patterns also correlate with in vitro oocyte aging. These results are consistent with postovulatory aging‐related alterations in the posttranslational modifications of the spindle apparatus by SUMO and its SENP proteases. These findings are suggestive that such age‐related changes in SUMOylation and the deSUMOylation of key target proteins in the spindle apparatus and kinetochore may be involved with spindle and chromosome alignment defects during mammalian oocyte postovulatory aging. Such findings may have implications for ART‐related human oocyte aging in vitro regarding the activities of the SUMO pathway and fertilization success.

Funder

F. M. Kirby Foundation

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Genetics,Molecular Biology,Biochemistry,Biotechnology

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