Fas/APO-1/CD95 system as a mediator of granulosa cell apoptosis in ovarian follicle atresia

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1938-1948

  Hakuno, Naomi ^a   Koji, Takehiko ^b   Yano, Tetsu ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuyuki ^c   Tsutsumi, Osamu ^a   Taketani, Yuji ^a   Nakane, Paul K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; DEOXYURIDINE PHOSPHATE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; FAS ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HOE 33342; LIGAND; SERIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL LYSATE; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029863103     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.5.8612534     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Tsafriri A, Braw RH 1984 Experimental approaches to atresia in mammals. Oxf Rev Reprod Biol 6:226-265
2. Hirshfield AN 1991 Development of follicles in the mammalian ovary. Int Rev Cytol 124:43-101
3. Hay MF, Cran DG, Moor RM 1976 Structural changes occurring during atresia in sheep ovarian follicles. Cell Tissue Res 169:515-529
4. Hirshfield AN, Midgley Jr AR 1978. Morphometric analysis of follicular development in the rat. Biol Reprod 19:606-611
5. Byskov AGS 1978 Follicular atresia. In: Jones RE (ed) The Vertebrate Ovary. Plenum Press, New York, pp 533-562
6. Bagavandoss P, Midgley Jr AR, Wicha M 1983 Developmental changes in the ovarian follicular basal lamina detected by immunofluorescence and electron microscopy. J Histochem Cytochem 31:633-640
7. Greenwald GS 1989 Temporal and topographic changes in DNA synthesis after induced follicular atresia. Biol Reprod 40:175-181
8. Hirshfield AN 1989 Rescue of atretic follicles in vitro and in vivo. Biol Reprod 40:181-190
9. Uilenbroek JTJ, Woutersen PJA, van der Schoot P 1980 Atresia of preovulatory follicles.: gonadotropin binding and steroidogenic activity. Biol Reprod 23:219-229
10. Terranova PF 1981 Steroidogenesis in experimentally induced atretic follicles of the hamster: a shift from estradiol to progesterone synthesis. Endocrinology 108:1855-1890
11. Carson RS, Findlay JK, Clarke IJ, Burger HF 1981 Estradiol, testosterone, and androstenedione in ovine follicular fluid during growth and atresia of ovarian follicles. Biol Reprod 24:105-113
12. Maxson WS, Haney AF, Schomberg DW 1985 Steroidogenesis in porcine atretic follicles: loss of aromatase activity in isolated granulosa and theca. Biol Reprod 33:495-501
13. Carson RS, Findlay JK, Burger HG, Trounson AO 1979 Gonadotropin receptors of the ovine ovarian follicle during follicular growth and atresia. Biol Reprod 21:75-87
14. Kerr JFR, Wyllie AH, Currie AR 1972 Apoptosis: a basic biological phenomenon with wide ranging implications in tissue kinetics. Br J Cancer 26:239-257
15. 2+-dependent endonuclease activity in rat granulosa and luteal cells. Endocrinology 125:2218-2220
16. Hughes Jr FM, Gorospe WC 1991 Biochemical identification of apoptosis (programmed cell death) in granulosa cells: evidence for a potential mechanism underlying follicular atresia. Endocrinology 129:2415-2422
17. Tilly JL, Kowalski KI, Johnson AL, Hsueh AJW 1991 Involvement of apoptosis in ovarian follicular atresia and postovulatory regression. Endocrinology 129:2799-2801
18. Tilly JL, Kowalski KI, Schomberg DW, Hsueh AJW 1992 Apoptosis in atretic ovarian follicles is associated with selective decreases in messenger ribonucleic acid transcripts for gonadotropin receptors and cytochrome P 450 aromatase. Endocrinology 131:1670-1676
19. Hsueh AJW, Billig H, Tsafriri A 1994 Ovarian follicle atresia: a hormonally controlled apoptotic process. Endocr Rev 15:707-723
20. Tilly JL, Billig H, Kowalski KI, Hsueh AJW 1992 Epidermal growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor suppress the spontaneous onset of apoptosis in cultured rat ovarian granulosa cells and follicles by a tyrosine kinase-dependent mechanism. Mol Endocrinol 6:1942-1950
21. Billig H, Furuta I, Hsueh AJW 1993 Estrogens inhibit and androgens enhances ovarian granulosa cell apoptosis. Endocrinology 133:2204-2212
22. Billig H, Furuta I, Hsueh AJW 1994 Gonadotropin-releasing hormone directly induces apoptotic cell death in the rat ovary: biochemical and in situ detection of deoxyribonucleic acid fragmentation in granulosa cells. Endocrinology 134:245-252
23. Chun S-Y, Billig H, Tilly JL, Furuta I, Tsafriri A, Hsueh AJW 1994 Gonadotropin suppression of apoptosis in cultured preovulatory follicles: mediatory role of endogenous insulin-like growth factor I. Endocrinology 135:1845-1853
24. Tilly JL, Tilly KI, Kenton ML, Johnson AL 1995 Expression of members of the bcl-2 gene family in the immature rat ovary: equine chorionic gonadotropin mediated inhibition of granulosa cell apoptosis is associated with decreased bax and constitutive bcl-2 and bcl-xlong messenger ribonucleic acid levels. Endocrinology 136:232-241
25. Tilly JL, Tilly KI 1995 Inhibitors of oxidative stress mimic the ability of follicle-stimulating hormone to suppress apoptosis in cultured rat ovarian follicles. Endocrinology 136:242-252
26. Tilly KI, Banerjee S, Banerjee PP, Tilly JL 1995 Expression of the p53 and Wilm's rumor suppressor genes in the rat ovary: gonadotropin repression in vivo and immunohistochemical localization of nuclear p53 protein to apoptotic granulosa cells of atretic follicles. Endocrinology 136:1392-1402
27. Ratts VS, Flaws JA, Kolp R, Sorenson CM, Tilly JL 1995 Ablation of bcl-2 gene expression decreases the numbers of oocytes and primordial follicles established in the post-natal female mouse gonad. Endocrinology 136:3665-3668
28. Trauth BC, Klas C, Peters AMJ, Matzku S, Moller P, Falk W, Debatin K-M, Krammer PH 1989 Monoclonal antibody-mediated tumor regression by induction of apoptosis. Science 245:301-304
29. Yonehara S, Ishii A, Yonehara M 1989 A cell-killing monoclonal antibody (anti-Fas) to a cell surface antigen co-downregulated with the receptor of tumor necrosis factor. J Exp Med 169:1747-1756
30. Itoh N, Yonehara S, Ishii A, Yonehara M, Mizushima S-I, Sameshima M, Hase A, Seto Y, Nagata S 1991 The polypeptide encoded by the cDNA for human cell surface antigen Fas can mediate apoptosis. Cell 66:233-243
31. Oehm A, Behrmann I, Falk W, Pawlita M, Maier G, Klas C, LiWeber M, Richards S, Dhein J, Trauth BC, Ponstingl H, Krammer PH 1992 Purification and molecular cloning of the APO-I cell surface antigen, a member of the tumor necrosis factor/nerve growth factor receptor superfamily. J Biol Chem 267:10709-10715
32. Ogasawara J, Watanabe-Fukunaga R, Adachi M, Matsuzawa A, Kasugai T, Kitamura Y, Itoh N, Suda T, Nagata S 1993 Lethal effect of the anti-Fas antibody in mice. Nature 364:806-809
33. Suda T, Takahashi T, Golstein P, Nagata S 1993 Molecular cloning and expression of the Fas ligand, a novel member of the tumor necrosis factor family. Cell 75:1169-1178
34. Suda T, Nagata S 1994 Purification and characterization of the Fas-ligand that induces apoptosis. J Exp Med 179:873-879
35. Dhein J, Walczak H, Baumler C, Debatin K-M, Krammer PH 1995 Autocrine T-cell suicide mediated by APO-1/(Fas/CD95). Nature 373:438-441
36. Brunner T, Mogil RJ, LaFace D, Yoo NJ, Mahboubi A, Echeverri F, Martin SJ, Force WR, Lynch DH, Ware CF, Green DR 1995 Cell-autonomous Fas(CD95)/Fas-ligand interaction mediates activation-induced apoptosis in T-cell hybridomas. Nature 373:441-444
37. Ju S-T, Panka DJ, Culi H, Ettinger R, El-Khatib M, Sherr DH, Stanger BZ, Marshak-Rothestein A 1995 Fas(CD95)/FasL interactions required for programmed cell death after T-cell activation. Nature 373:444-448
38. Quirk SM, Cowan RG, Joshi SG, Henrikson KP 1995 Fas antigen-mediated apoptosis in human granulosa/luteal cells. Biol Reprod 52:279-287
39. Bradford MM 1976 A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal Biochem 72:248-254
40. Laemmli UK 1970 Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227:680-685
41. Adames JC 1981 Heavy metal intensification of DAB-based HRP reaction product. J Histochem Cytochem 29:775
42. Banka CL, Erickson GF 1985 Gonadotropin-releasing hormone induces classical meiotic maturation in subpopulations of atretic pre-antral follicles. Endocrinology 117:1500-1507
43. Koji T, Kobayashi N, Nakanishi Y, Yoshii A, Hshimoto S, Shibata Y, Anjiki N, Yamamoto R, Aoki A, Ueda T, Kanazawa S, Nakane PK 1994 Immunohistochemical localization of Fas antigen paraffin sections with rabbit antibodies against human synthetic Fas peptides. Acta Histochem Cytochem 27:459-463
44. Gavrieli Y, Sherman Y, Ben-Sasson SA 1992 Identification of programmed cell death in situ via specific labeling of nuclear DNA fragmentation. J Cell Biol 119:493-501
45. Koji T, Nakane PK 1990 Localization in situ of specific mRNA using thymine-thymine dimerized DNA probes. Sensitive and reliable non-radioactive in situ hybridization (Review). Acta Pathol Jpn 40: 793-807
46. Koji T, Chedid M, Rubin JS, Slayden OD, Csaky KG, Aaronson SA, Brenner RM 1994 Progesterone-dependent expression of keratinocyte growth factor mRNA in stromal cells of the primate endometrium: keratinocyte growth factor as a progestomedin. J Cell Biol 125:393-401
47. Frisch SM, Francis H 1994 Disruption of epithelial cell-matrix interactions induces apoptosis. J Cell Biol 124:619-626
48. Braw RH, Tsafriri A 1980 Effect of PMSG on follicular atresia in the immature rat ovary. J Reprod Fertil 59:267-272
49. Marcinkiewicz JL, Krishna A, Cheung CMY, Terranova PF 1994 Oocytic tumor necrosis factor alpha: localization in the neonatal ovary and throughout follicular development in the adult rat. Biol Reprod 50:1251-1260
50. Watanabe-Fukunaga R, Brannan CI, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, Nagata S 1992 Lymphoproliferation disorder in mice explained by defects in Fas antigen that mediates apoptosis. Nature 356: 314-317
51. Roths JB, Murphy ED, Eicher EM 1984 A new mutation, gld, that produces lymphoproliferation and autoimmunity in C3H/HeJ mice. J Exp Med 159:1-20
52. Takahashi T, Tanaka M, Brannan CI, Jenkins NA, Copeland NG, Suda T, Nagata S 1994 Generalized lymphoproliferative disease in mice caused by a point mutation in the Fas ligand. Cell 76:969-976
53. Watanabe-Fukunaga R, Brannan CI, Itoh N, Yonehara S, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, Nagata S 1992 The cDNA structure, expression, and chromosomal assignment of the mouse Fas antigen. J Immunol 148:1274-1279
54. Andreani CL, Payne DW, Packman JN, Resnick CE, Hurwitz A, Adashi EY 1991 Cytokine-mediated regulation of ovarian function. J Biol Chem 266:6761-6766
55. Adashi EY 1992 The potential relevance of cytokines to ovarian physiology. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 43:439-444
56. Gorospe WC, Tuchel T, Kasson BG 1988 γ-interferon inhibits rat granulosa cell differentiation in culture. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 157:891-897
57. Xiao S, Findlay JK 1991 Modulation of differentiation of rat granulosa cells in vitro by interferon-γ. J Endocrinol 133:131-139
58. Schulze-Osthoff K 1994 The Fas/APO-1 receptor and its deadly ligand. Trends Cell Biol 4:421-426