Taqi Aboubakr, Mohamed Omar: Transcription factors mediated oxidative stress response in bovine follicular cells and preimplantation embryos. - Bonn, 2019. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-56686,
author = {{Mohamed Omar Taqi Aboubakr}},
title = {Transcription factors mediated oxidative stress response in bovine follicular cells and preimplantation embryos},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2019,
month = dec,

volume = 192,
note = {Transcription factors (TFs) are DNA-binding proteins implicated in regulation of gene activity and subsequently several biological functions under physiological, pathological and stress conditions. Oxidative stress can be generated naturally or upon exposure to environmental factors that ultimately affect cattle fertility. However, the role and regulation of TFs mediated-oxidative stress response in bovine follicular cells and preimplantation embryos remain elusive. Therefore, this dissertation aims to elucidate the expression pattern, crosstalk, and extracellularly released-TFs under stress condition. To address that, three independent experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, the sub-confluent bovine granulosa cells were treated with H2O2 to induce oxidative stress. In the second experiment, NRF2 was selectively knocked down using siRNA. Cells of both experiments were subjected to cellular phenotypes in addition to expression pattern analysis of TFs, endoplasmic reticulum, differentiation and apoptosis genes. In the third experiment, the male and female zygotes were cultured until blastocyst stage under 5% or 20% oxygen levels. Blastocysts were subjected to reactive oxygen species (ROS) level, total cell count assays and mRNA quantification for candidate TFs, antioxidants as well as extracellular vesicles’ (EVs) biogenesis and secretion genes. Thereafter, EVs were isolated from spent culture media of embryos and subjected to mRNA quantification of candidate TFs. Results revealed that oxidative stress increased intercellular ROS levels and reduced mitochondrial activity accompanied by lipids accumulation and DNA fragmentation in granulosa cells. Consequently, oxidative stress-induced NRF2 was coupled with differentially expressed candidate TFs associated with a reduction of cell proliferation. Intriguingly, inhibition of NRF2 resulted in upregulation of KLF4 and its target genes, which in turn reduced cellular proliferation. Likewise, high oxygen tension reduced blastocyst rate, total cell number and increased ROS levels in both male and female embryos. Contrary to female embryos, the mRNA expression level of NRF2, KLF4 and SREBF2 was upregulated in male embryos under high oxygen level. Concomitantly, released EVs packed with higher mRNA levels of NRF2 and NOTCH. In conclusion, bovine granulosa cells and preimplantation embryos respond to environmental stressors by differential regulation of TFs.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/8024}
}

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