The role of Rad51 in safeguarding mitochondrial activity during the meiotic cell cycle in mammalian oocytes

Rad51 is a conserved eukaryotic protein that mediates the homologous recombination repair of DNA double-strand breaks that occur during mitosis and meiosis. In addition, Rad51 promotes mitochondrial DNA synthesis when replication stress is increased. Rad51 also regulates cell cycle progression by pr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Scientific reports 2016-09, Vol.6 (1), p.34110-34110, Article 34110
Hauptverfasser: Kim, Kyeoung-Hwa, Park, Ji-Hoon, Kim, Eun-Young, Ko, Jung-Jae, Park, Kyung-Soon, Lee, Kyung-Ah
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Zusammenfassung:Rad51 is a conserved eukaryotic protein that mediates the homologous recombination repair of DNA double-strand breaks that occur during mitosis and meiosis. In addition, Rad51 promotes mitochondrial DNA synthesis when replication stress is increased. Rad51 also regulates cell cycle progression by preserving the G2/M transition in embryonic stem cells. In this study, we report a novel function of Rad51 in regulating mitochondrial activity during in vitro maturation of mouse oocytes. Suppression of Rad51 by injection of Rad51 dsRNA into germinal vesicle-stage oocytes resulted in arrest of meiosis in metaphase I. Rad51 -depleted oocytes showed chromosome misalignment and failures in spindle aggregation, affecting the completion of cytokinesis. We found that Rad51 depletion was accompanied by decreased ATP production and mitochondrial membrane potential and increased DNA degradation. We further demonstrated that the mitochondrial defect activated autophagy in Rad51 -depleted oocytes. Taken together, we concluded that Rad51 functions to safeguard mitochondrial integrity during the meiotic maturation of oocytes.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/srep34110