Egg Envelope Formation of Medaka Oryzias Latipes Requires ZP Proteins Originating from Both the Liver and Ovary

Overview

Journal J Biol Chem

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2023 Mar 11

PMID 36906145

Authors

Reo Yokokawa

Kana Watanabe

Shinji Kanda

Yoshihide Nishino

Shigeki Yasumasu

Kaori Sano

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Abstract

Teleost oocytes are surrounded by a structure called chorion or egg envelopes, which is composed of zona pellucida (ZP) proteins. As a result of the gene duplication in teleost, the expression site of the zp genes, coding the major component protein of egg envelopes, changed from the ovary to the maternal liver. In Euteleostei, there are three liver-expressed zp genes, named choriogenin (chg) h, chg hm, and chg l, and the composition of the egg envelope is mostly made up of these Chgs. In addition, ovary-expressed zp genes are also conserved in the medaka genomes, and their proteins have also been found to be minor components of the egg envelopes. However, the specific role of liver-expressed versus ovary-expressed zp genes was unclear. In the present study, we showed that ovary-synthesized ZP proteins first form the base layer of the egg envelope and then Chgs polymerize inwardly to thicken the egg envelope. To analyze the effects of dysfunction of the chg gene, we generated some chg knockout medaka. All knockout females failed to produce normally fertilized eggs by the natural spawning. The egg envelopes lacking Chgs were significantly thinner, but layers formed by ZP proteins synthesized in the ovary were found in the thin egg envelope of knockout as well as wildtype eggs. These results suggest that the ovary-expressed zp gene is well conserved in all teleosts, including those species in which liver-derived ZP proteins are the major component, because it is essential for the initiation of egg envelope formation.

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