title: Role of Src homology 2 domain-mediated PTK signaling in mouse zygotic development.
abstract: Fyn and other Src-family kinases play an essential role at several steps during egg activation following fertilization of externally fertilizing species, such as marine invertebrates, fish, and frogs. Recent studies demonstrate that the requirement for Src-family kinases in activation of the mammalian egg is different from lower species, and the objective of this study was to test the role of the Fyn kinase in the mouse egg activated by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). An Src homology 2 (SH2) domain containing fusion protein was used to suppress Fyn function in the mouse zygote following ICSI. Eggs injected with the Fyn SH2 domain at an intracellular concentration of 4-8 microM exhibited reduced developmental potential with 100% of the zygotes being arrested following the first or the second cleavage. At higher concentrations, the protein blocked pronuclear congression and the zygotes remained at the pronuclear stage. The SH2 domain had no effect on sperm-induced calcium oscillations in distinct contrast to its effect on the eggs of lower species. The results indicate that the SH2 domain of Fyn kinase plays an important role in pronuclear congression as well as early cleavage events and that this effect appears not to involve disruption of calcium oscillations.
authors.affiliation: Center for Reproductive Sciences and Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Jinping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Chunhua
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: William H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Kinsey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D020013:Calcium Signaling; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009865:Oocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D051076:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyn / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D020554:Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic; D013084:Sperm-Ovum Interactions / Q000502:physiology; D015053:Zygote / Q000502:physiology*; D018909:src Homology Domains / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; C494960:Fyn protein, mouse; D051076:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fyn; D002118:Calcium