Insulin signaling in bovine and canine corpus luteum under the influence of high and low 17²-estradiol concentrations

• Grant number: 14/00739-9
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Duration: December 01, 2014 - November 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Animal Reproduction
• Principal Investigator: Paula de Carvalho Papa Keohane
• Grantee: Paula de Carvalho Papa Keohane
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Maria Denise Lopes
• Associated researchers: Ana Augusta Pagnano Derussi ; Bruno Moura Monteiro ; Ines Cristina Giometti Ceda ; Liza Margareth Medeiros de Carvalho Sousa ; Mario Binelli ; Mariusz Kowalewski ; Roberto Sartori Filho ; Ubiratan Fabres Machado
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/09579-5 - Insulin signaling in bovine and canine corpus luteum under the influence of high and low 17b-estradiol concentrations, BP.IC; 16/22589-4 - Cortisol influence on lutein cells response to insulin stimulation in bitches, BP.MS; 16/16648-8 - Cell death type evaluation of canine luteal cells in the cyclical and gestational diestrus, BP.IC; 15/02551-0 - Morphological, molecular and functional aspects of the corpus luteum of cows treated with equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) before or after ovulation, BP.PD

Abstract

The aim of this project is to identify components of the insulin signaling pathway involved in glucose uptake and steroidogenesis according to 17²-estradiol ( E2 ) cyclical variations in the canine cyclic and gestational corpus luteum (CL) and in the bovine cyclic CL, treated or not with eCG. For that, in experiment (exp.) 1, 16 cows (Bos taurus) will be synchronized and treated with propileneglycol to increase plasma insulin from 72 h prior to LH administration to induce ovulation. In exp. 2, Bos taurus heifers will be treated with 400 IU eCG at the third day after ovulation. In exp. 1 cows will undergo follicular aspiration for granulosa cells collection and in a second round, follicular aspiration will not occur and D6, D10 and D14 CL will be biopsied. This luteal biopsy procedure will also be conducted in exp. 2. Global gene expression will be determined by RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), from which differentially expressed genes related to the insulin signaling will be selected. Then, the expression of these genes will be validated by qPCR, western blotting and immunohistochemistry. In exp. 3, samples of CL from cyclic cows, treated or not with eCG and previously analyzed by microarray, will be validated for insulin signaling pathway genes as previously described. In exp. 4, 24 bitches will be neutered in the diestrous phase (days 10-60 after ovulation) and in exp. 5, 18 bitches will be neutered at early, mid and late pregnancy. Their CLs will be collected and submitted to RNA-seq and subsequent validations. After obtaining the results from global gene analysis, we will evaluate the effects of insulin in cultured bovine (exp. 6) and canine (exp. 7) luteal cells under different concentrations of E2. The functional role of selected genes will be assessed by RNAi technique and culture samples will be submitted to RNA-seq and subsequent validations. RNA-seq analyses will be performed by aligning the generated sequences (reads) against bovine and canine genome, respectively, which are converted into transcripts, whose expression level is estimated using the index RPKM (reads/Kb/Million). The sequencing data will be published in the NCBI library (Sequence Read Arquives - SRA). After validations, the obtained results will be tested by GraphPad Prism 5.0 program (GraphPad Software, USA), according to their homogeneity and normality and represented as mean ± SEM. Differences of p d 0.05 will be considered. Thus, this project aims, besides unraveling the role of insulin in CL function, to revisit the mechanisms of CL regulation in these two species, since the RNA-seq experiments open new prospects for the global understanding of this phenomenon. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MATTOSO MISKULIN CARDOSO, ANA PAULA; PEREIRA, MIGUEL TAVARES; SILVA, RENATA DOS SANTOS; MEDEIROS DE CARVALHO SOUSA, LIZA MARGARETH; GIOMETTI, INES CRISTINA; KOWALEWSKI, MARIUSZ PAWEL; PAPA, PAULA DE CARVALHO. Global transcriptome analysis implicates cholesterol availability in the regulation of canine cyclic luteal function. General and Comparative Endocrinology, v. 307, JUN 1 2021. (14/00739-9, 11/22173-9)

BONFIM NETO, ANTENOR PEREIRA; CARDOSO, ANA PAULA MATTOSO MISKULIN; DOS SANTOS SILVA, RENATA; SOUSA, LIZA MARGARETH MEDEIROS DE CARVALHO; GIOMETTI, INES CRISTINA; BINELLI, MARIO; BAUERSACHS, STEFAN; KOWALEWSKI, MARIUSZ PAWEL; DE CARVALHO PAPA, PAULA. An approach to uncover the relationship between 17b-estradiol and ESR1/ESR2 ratio in the regulation of canine corpus luteum. FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE, v. 9, p. 15-pg., 2022-08-02. (11/22173-9, 14/00739-9)