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Biology of Reproduction, Vol 57, 54-62, Copyright © 1997 by Society for the Study of Reproduction

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Hypoxanthine regulation of oocyte maturation in the mouse: insights using hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase-deficient animals

SM Downs
Biology Department, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA. downss@vms.csd.mu.edu

In this study the effects of hypoxanthine (HX) on meiotic maturation were compared using oocytes from mice possessing a hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase null mutation (HPRT-) and from the corresponding HPRT-competent background strain (HPRT+). Oocyte-cumulus cell complexes and cumulus cell-enclosed oocytes (oocytes cultured while enclosed by cumulus cells) from HPRT+, but not HPRT-, mice took up HX and contained significant levels of HPRT activity. In addition, FSH increased, and HX suppressed, the de novo synthesis of purines in HPRT+ complexes, whereas de novo synthesis was elevated in HPRT complexes and was unaffected by FSH or HX. After 3 h of HX treatment, lower frequencies of germinal vesicle breakdown (GVB) were observed in cumulus cell-enclosed than in denuded HPRT+ oocytes; however, identical frequencies of maturation were observed in denuded and cumulus cell- enclosed HPRT oocytes. This demonstrates a direct inhibitory action of HX on the oocyte that does not depend on salvage, plus an additional action of the cumulus cells that requires HPRT activity. Nevertheless, cumulus cells from HPRT- mice are capable of exerting an additional inhibitory action of dibutyryl cAMP (dbcAMP) on the oocyte. A kinetics analysis of FSH action on HX-arrested cumulus cell-enclosed HPRT+ and HPRT- oocytes revealed, first, that the inhibitory effect of the cumulus cells is transient and, second, that HPRT activity is not required for FSH induction of GVB in HX-arrested oocytes. When dbcAMP- or HX-arrested oocytes were treated with FSH, GVB was blocked to the same extent in HPRT- oocytes with the purine de novo synthesis inhibitor, azaserine, but this drug was less effective in HX-treated HPRT+ oocytes. These results confirm the importance of the de novo pathway in hormone-induced maturation and also support a role for purine salvage as an alternative source of nucleotide in this process.


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