scholarly journals Functional Characterization of Double-knockout Mouse Sperm Lacking SPAM1 and ACR or SPAM1 and PRSS21 in Fertilization

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong ZHOU ◽  
Woojin KANG ◽  
Tadashi BABA
2011 ◽  
Vol 1383 ◽  
pp. 270-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Etholm ◽  
Henrik Lindén ◽  
Torsten Eken ◽  
Paul Heggelund

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyuk Nam Kwon ◽  
Kristen Kurtzeborn ◽  
Xing Jin ◽  
Bruno Reversade ◽  
Sunghyouk Park ◽  
...  

Nephron endowment is defined by fetal kidney growth and it critically dictates renal health in adults. Despite the advances in understanding the molecular regulation of nephron progenitor maintenance, propagation, and differentiation, the causes for low congenital nephron count and contribution of basic metabolism to nephron progenitor regulation remain poorly studied. Here we have analyzed the metabolic effects that depend on and are triggered by the mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MAPK/ERK) pathway, which is an essential intracellular cascade required for nephron progenitor maintenance. Our combined approach utilizing LC/MS-based metabolomics and transcriptional profiling of MAPK/ERK-deficient cells identified 18 out of total 46 metabolites (38 untargeted and 8 targeted) that were down-regulated. These represent glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, pentose phosphate, glycine, and proline pathways among others. We focused our functional characterization of identified metabolites on pyruvate and proline. Use of in vitro kidney cultures revealed dosage-specific functions for pyruvate in not only controlling ureteric bud branching but also determining progenitor and differentiated (tip-trunk) cell identities. Our in vivo characterization of Pycr1/2 double knockout kidneys revealed functional requirement for proline metabolism in nephron progenitor maintenance. In summary, our results demonstrate that MAPK/ERK cascade regulates energy and amino acid metabolism in developing kidney where these metabolic pathways specifically regulate progenitor preservation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 214 (1) ◽  
pp. S135
Author(s):  
Hind N. Moussa ◽  
Baha M. Sibai ◽  
Sean C. Blackwell ◽  
David A. Fournie ◽  
Alejandra E. Ontiveros ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. P1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon O Cleary ◽  
Karen McCue ◽  
Anthony N Price ◽  
Sarah Beddow ◽  
Roger J Ordidge ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Yamamoto ◽  
T. Yamashita ◽  
F. Kitagawa ◽  
K. Sakamoto ◽  
J.C. Giddings ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-255
Author(s):  
Minoru Ando ◽  
Shoichi Kado ◽  
Tomo Suzuki ◽  
Ryota Yamamoto ◽  
Yuriko Nagata ◽  
...  

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