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A transphyletic approach to analyzing evolutionarily conserved β-catenin modules

ABSTRACT: To identify evolutionarily conserved Beta-catenin protein interactions, Beta-catenin mRNA from various metazoans was injected into Xenopus embryos and immunopurified at gastrula stage. Beta-catenin complexes were then separated on an SDS-PAGE gel and subjected mass spectrometric analysis

ORGANISM(S): Cellular Organisms Xenopus Laevis

SUBMITTER: Hiroshi Watanabe

PROVIDER: PXD035167 | JPOST Repository | Sat Jul 08 00:00:00 BST 2023

REPOSITORIES: jPOST

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Project description:An important facet of the oocyte to embryo transition in mammals is the rapid elimination of a subset of the maternal products that got accumulated during oogenesis. RNA studies support a view that the transition occurs quite rapidly. Whether this applies also for proteins remains to be determined beyond the very few cases known to date. We report that COPS3, the 3rd subunit of the COP9 signalosome complex, forms a large protein deposit in mouse oocytes (94th percentile of the riBAQ distribution). The one and only knock-out study had previously shown that Cops3 null (-/-) mouse embryos obtained from heterozygous intercrosses arrested after 5.5 dpc and were resorbed by 8.5 dpc mainly due to increased cell death in the epiblast (PMID: 12972600). However, more recent studies from our group ascribed Cops3 gene with a developmental role already at the 2-cell stage. Specifically, the sister blastomeres differ from each other in Cops3 mRNA levels and distribution, preceding the discordance of epiblast formation in derivative twin blastocysts, and implicating Cops3 in the molecular underpinnings of totipotency. This discrepancy between original knock-out result and recent observations can be resolved if we posit that the first requirement for Cops3 gene function was bridged by maternal protein that outlived the locus excision, consistent with the observation that Cops3 -/- blastocysts had the same immunostaining intensity as the +/- or +/+ counterparts in the original knock-out study. Thus, these contradicting observations support a hypothesis that 5.5 dpc may not have been the first time when the gene function was needed in development, but the second time. To test this hypothesis, pronuclear-stage mouse oocytes were subjected to an immunological method that directly targets the protein of interest by way of proteasomal degradation of the COPS3-antibody-TRIM21 complex. Briefly, pronuclear-stage mouse oocytes were microinjected with a mixture of the COPS3-specific purified monoclonal IgG antibody, mCherry-Trim21 mRNA and Oregon Green dextran beads (inert tracer). Injected oocytes were then allowed to develop and collected for lysis 24 hours later, when they reached the 2-cell stage but were not able to progress further. In addition to the COPS3, we targeted two additional proteins, OCT4 and TEAD4. The following seven experimental groups were examined by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) using the pipeline described previously by Israel et al.: 1) non-manipulated 2-cell embryos; 2) 2-cell embryos from oocytes injected with Oregon Green dextran beads; 3) 2-cell embryos from oocytes injected with mCherry-Trim21 mRNA and Oregon Green; 4) 2-cell embryos from oocytes injected with mCherry-Trim21 mRNA, Oregon Green and anti-COPS3 (Abcam 79698); 5) 2-cell embryos from oocytes injected with anti-COPS3 (Abcam 79698) and Oregon Green; 6) 2-cell embryos from oocytes injected with mCherry-Trim21 mRNA, Oregon Green and anti-TEAD4 (Abcam 58310); 7) 2-cell embryos from oocytes injected with mCherry-Trim21 mRNA, Oregon Green and anti-OCT4 (Abcam 181557).

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