Effects of calcium-BAPTA buffers and the calmodulin antagonist W-7 on mouse egg activation.

Abstract:

:Results of numerous experiments indicate that the transient rise in intracellular Ca2+ following sperm-egg fusion is essential for the subsequent events that constitute egg activation. Some events of egg activation, e.g., cortical granule exocytosis, however, appear more sensitive to intracellular Ca2+ than other events, e.g., cell cycle resumption. To examine if specific events of egg activation have different thresholds for Ca2+, we manipulated buffered intracellular Ca2+ concentrations by microinjecting Ca2+-BAPTA buffers and then examined the effect on the cortical granule exocytosis, recruitment of maternal mRNAs, and cell cycle resumption. We find that whereas cortical granule exocytosis occurs over a narrow threshold range of injected free Ca2+ concentrations between 0.5 and 1.0 microM, recruitment of maternal mRNAs is only partially stimulated at injected free Ca2+ concentrations of 2.5 microM, and no evidence for cell cycle resumption was observed (up to 2.5 microM Ca2+). Although the Ca2+- and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase, protein kinase C, is implicated in aspects of egg activation, calmodulin is also a potential target for the transient increase in Ca2+ that occurs following fertilization. Whereas incubation of eggs in the presence of the calmodulin antagonist W-7 followed by insemination does not block cortical granule exocytosis, cell cycle resumption, as assessed by the metaphase-to-anaphase transition, a decrease in histone H1 kinase activity and the time course for the emission of the second polar body are significantly delayed/inhibited.

journal_name

Dev Biol

journal_title

Developmental biology

authors

Xu Z,Lefevre L,Ducibella T,Schultz RM,Kopf GS

doi

10.1006/dbio.1996.0331

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-12-15 00:00:00

pages

594-604

issue

2

eissn

0012-1606

issn

1095-564X

pii

S0012-1606(96)90331-0

journal_volume

180

pub_type

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