Project description:Marf1 (MUT) female mice are infertile and the meiosis of the oocytes are arrest at prophase I. We thought to identify the potential causes of the meiotic arrest phenotype in the mutant oocytes by comparing the transcriptomes of the WT and mutant fully-grown oocytes (from 23-d old mice) that are transcriptional silent. We compared the transcriptomes of WT and MUT FGOs.
Project description:Marf1 (MUT) female mice are infertile and the meiosis of the oocytes are arrest at prophase I. We thought to identify the potential causes of the meiotic arrest phenotype in the mutant oocytes by comparing the transcriptomes of the WT and mutant fully-grown oocytes (from 23-d old mice) that are transcriptional silent. We compared the transcriptomes of WT and MUT FGOs. 3 individual oocyte samples of each genotype (WT and MUT).
Project description:The goal of this study is to reveal the globle effect of supplementation with either wild type MARF1or D272-mutated MARF1 on the steady-state levels of mRNAs in Marf1-gene trap GV-stage fully-grown oocytes(FGOs) by comparing the corresponding transcriptomes via RNA-Seq Analysis.
Project description:Comparing the Transcriptomes of Marf1 wildtype (WT) oocytes with those of Marf1-genetrap (GT-Mut) and Marf1-D272 mutant(D272-Mut) oocytes by RNA-Seq Analysis
Project description:The goal of this study is to identify the differentially expressed genes in Gdf9-Cre and Zp3-Cre mediated Mtor oocyte-specific knockout (CKO) GV-stage fully-grown oocytes (FGO) by comparing their transcriptomes with that of the wild-type (WT) via RNA-Seq Analysis.
Project description:The goal of this study is to identify the differentially expressed genes in PARP12-KD GV-stage fully-grown oocytes (FGO) by comparing their transcriptomes with that of the control-siRNA oocytes via RNA-Seq Analysis.
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in oocytes Hsf1-/- or Hsf2-/- compared to wild-type. The mutants analyzed in this study are further described in McMillan DR, Xiao X, Shao L, Graves K, Benjamin IJ. 1998. Targeted disruption of heat shock transcription factor 1 abolishes thermotolerance and protection against heat-inducible apoptosis. J Biol Chem. 273(13):7523-8 and in McMillan DR, Christians E, Forster M, Xiao X, Connell P, Plumier JC, Zuo X, Richardson J, Morgan S, Benjamin IJ. 2002. Heat shock transcription factor 2 is not essential for embryonic development, fertility, or adult cognitive and psychomotor function in mice. Mol Cell Biol. 22(22):8005-14. A microarray study using two technical replicates of total RNA recovered from wild-type fully-grown oocytes, Hsf1 mutant fully-grown oocytes and Hsf2 mutant fully-grown oocytes. Each microarray measures the expression level of 42,586 probe sets from Mus musculus with nine 60-mer probe pairs per gene.
Project description:To verify the Ribo-seq data of mouse oocyte, we performed MS/MS on mouse fully-grown oocytes. And the results show that our Ribo-seq data well reflect the proteomic dynamics in the fully grown oocytes.
Project description:Cytoplasmic and nuclear maturation of oocytes as well as interaction with the surrounding cumulus cells are important features relevant to the acquisition of developmental competence. We used brilliant cresyl blue (BCB) to distinguish oocytes with low activity of the enzyme Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, and thus separated fully grown (BCB+) oocytes from those in the growing phase (BCB-). The BCB+ oocytes are twice as likely to produce a blastocyst in vitro compared to BCB- oocytes (P<0.01). We analyzed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number in single oocytes and determined that BCB- oocytes have 1.3-fold more copies than BCB+ oocytes (P=0.004). We also interrogated the transcriptome of oocytes and surrounding cumulus cells of BCB+ versus BCB- oocytes. There was no differential transcript abundance of genes expressed in oocytes, but we identified 172 genes in cumulus cells with differential transcript abundance (FDR<0.05) based on the BCB staining of their oocyte. Differential gene co-expression analysis between BCB+ and BCB- oocytes and their surrounding cumulus cells revealed dynamic coordination of transcript abundance between both compartments of the cumulus-oocyte complex. We identified a subset of genes whose co-expression in fully grown oocytes (n=75) and their surrounding cumulus cells (n=108) compose a unique profile of the cumulus-oocyte complex. In conclusion, as oocytes transition from growing to fully grown, there is an increase in the likelihood of producing a blastocyst, a reduction of mtDNA copies and no systematic variation of transcript abundance. Cumulus cells present changes in transcript abundance, which reflects in a dynamic co-expression between oocyte and cumulus cells.
