Proteolytic activity of the 26S proteasome is required for the meiotic resumption, germinal vesicle breakdown, and cumulus expansion of porcine cumulus-oocyte complexes matured in vitro

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-126

  Yi, Young Joo ^a,b   Nagyova, Eva ^c   Manandhar, Gaurishankar ^a   Procházka, Radek ^c   Sutovsky, Miriam ^a   Park, Chang Sik ^b   Sutovsky, Peter ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^d University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulus expansion; FSH; Germinal vesicle breakdown; LH; MG132; Oocyte; Oocyte maturation; Porcine; Proteasome; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

BENZYLOXYCARBONYLLEUCYLLEUCYLLEUCINAL; PROTEASOME;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MATURATION; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMETAPHASE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CUMULUS CELLS; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; LEUPEPTINS; MEIOSIS; MICROFILAMENTS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; SWINE;

MAMMALIA; SUS;

EID: 38149038729     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.061366     Document Type: Article

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