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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2013, Vol. 12 Issue (6): 1054-1065    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(13)60263-4
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GDNF Up-Regulates c-Myc Transcription via the PI3K/Akt Pathway to Promote Dairy Goat Male Germline Stem Cells (mGSC) Proliferation
 SUN Jun-wei, ZHU Hai-jing, LIU Chao, LI Ming-zhao , HUA Jin-lian
College of Veterinary Medicine, Shaanxi Center of Stem Cells Engineering & Technology/Key Lab for Animal Biotechnology of Agriculture Ministry of China, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, P.R.China
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摘要  Studies have demonstrated that regulation of GDNF on male germline stem cells (mGSCs) mainly through Ras/Erk1/2, Src family kinase and PI3K/Akt signaling pathways, but the signaling pathways GDNF-mediated are different when the species and cell lines varied. Whether GDNF regulates self-renewal of mGSCs isolated from livestock has not been reported. Here, we purified mGSCs from dairy goat testis using mixed enzymes and fibronectin. Immunofluoresce staining revealed the cultured dairy mGSCs expressed Vasa, Nanos2, Ngn3, Tert, Dazl, Lin28, Oct4, CD49f, Stra8 and GFRa1, reflecting that these cells were mGSCs phenotype. Then we cultured these dairy goat mGSCs in different concentrations of GDNF (0, 5, 10, or 20 ng mL-1) to optimize the best concentration of GDNF to sustain the dairy goat mGSCs self-renewal, after that the inhibitor of PI3K (LY294002, 10 μmol L-1) was added to the medium which contains the optimal concentration of GDNF we obtained by experiments. The mGSCs cultured in different media were compared through the population doubling time (PDT), capacity of cell proliferation evaluated by PCNA and BrdU immunofluorescence staining, RT-PCR, QRT-PCR, Western blotting and flow cytometry. Results showed that 10 ng mL-1 was the optimal concentration of GDNF to maintain goat mGSCs self-renewal and GDNF up-regulates c-Myc transcription via the PI3K/Akt pathway to promote goat mGSCs proliferation. This study provides us an efficient model to study the mechanism in mGSCs proliferation and differentiation in goat, and has important implications in unveiling signaling pathways in livestock GSCs.

Abstract  Studies have demonstrated that regulation of GDNF on male germline stem cells (mGSCs) mainly through Ras/Erk1/2, Src family kinase and PI3K/Akt signaling pathways, but the signaling pathways GDNF-mediated are different when the species and cell lines varied. Whether GDNF regulates self-renewal of mGSCs isolated from livestock has not been reported. Here, we purified mGSCs from dairy goat testis using mixed enzymes and fibronectin. Immunofluoresce staining revealed the cultured dairy mGSCs expressed Vasa, Nanos2, Ngn3, Tert, Dazl, Lin28, Oct4, CD49f, Stra8 and GFRa1, reflecting that these cells were mGSCs phenotype. Then we cultured these dairy goat mGSCs in different concentrations of GDNF (0, 5, 10, or 20 ng mL-1) to optimize the best concentration of GDNF to sustain the dairy goat mGSCs self-renewal, after that the inhibitor of PI3K (LY294002, 10 μmol L-1) was added to the medium which contains the optimal concentration of GDNF we obtained by experiments. The mGSCs cultured in different media were compared through the population doubling time (PDT), capacity of cell proliferation evaluated by PCNA and BrdU immunofluorescence staining, RT-PCR, QRT-PCR, Western blotting and flow cytometry. Results showed that 10 ng mL-1 was the optimal concentration of GDNF to maintain goat mGSCs self-renewal and GDNF up-regulates c-Myc transcription via the PI3K/Akt pathway to promote goat mGSCs proliferation. This study provides us an efficient model to study the mechanism in mGSCs proliferation and differentiation in goat, and has important implications in unveiling signaling pathways in livestock GSCs.
Keywords:  GDNF      male germline stem cells (mGscs)      PI3K/Akt      c_Myc  
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30972097, 31272518), the Program for the New Century Excellent Talents of State Ministry of Education of P.R. China (NCET-09-0654), the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of P.R. China (RFDP, 20120204110030), the Scientific Research Program of Shaanxi Province, China (2011K02-06), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (QN2011012).

Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence HUA Jin-lian, Tel: +86-29-87080068, Fax: +86-29-87080068, E-mail: jinlianhua@nwsuaf.edu.cn     E-mail:  jinlianhua@nwsuaf.edu.cn

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SUN Jun-wei, ZHU Hai-jing, LIU Chao, LI Ming-zhao , HUA Jin-lian. 2013. GDNF Up-Regulates c-Myc Transcription via the PI3K/Akt Pathway to Promote Dairy Goat Male Germline Stem Cells (mGSC) Proliferation. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 12(6): 1054-1065.

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