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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-9-12
pubmed:abstractText
20 beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (20 beta-HSD) is a crucial enzyme that converts 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone to 17 alpha,20 beta-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one (DHP), which triggers oocyte maturation in most teleost fish. A full-length cDNA for a carbonyl reductase-like 20 beta-HSD (CR/20 beta-HSD) has been cloned from the zebrafish ovary. Although the zebrafish CR/20 beta-HSD is expressed in all of the tissues tested, it is predominantly expressed in the ovary, testis, kidney, and gill. In the ovary, the enzyme was shown to be expressed in the follicle cells and its expression appeared to be constitutive. No significant difference was noticed in the level of CR/20 beta-HSD expression among follicles of different stages. Furthermore, analysis of the ovarian samples taken at different times before spawning showed no significant change of the enzyme expression. In agreement with these results, treatment of the cultured zebrafish ovarian follicle cells with gonadotropin and activin had little effect on the expression of the enzyme. Taken together, these results point to the possibility that the gonadotropin-induced DHP production and final oocyte maturation in the zebrafish may not involve significant change of CR/20 beta-HSD expression as evidenced in the salmonids, or that there might be other isoforms of 20 beta-HSD whose expression is tightly controlled by endocrine and paracrine factors.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0016-6480
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
127
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
209-16
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Alcohol Oxidoreductases, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Cortisone Reductase, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-DNA, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Gills, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Kidney, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Ovarian Follicle, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Ovary, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Sequence Homology, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Testis, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Tissue Distribution, pubmed-meshheading:12225761-Zebrafish
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Cloning of zebrafish ovarian carbonyl reductase-like 20 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and characterization of its spatial and temporal expression.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, China, Hong Kong.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't