PGRMC Proteins as Markers of Fertility and Overall Health Status

PGRMC 蛋白作为生育力和整体健康状况的标志

• 批准号: 10729068
• 负责人: James K Pru
• 金额: $ 39.74万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10729068
• 关键词: Ablation; Acceleration; Address; Adenomyosis; Affect; Age; Age Months; Age Years; Age of Onset; Aging; Antimitotic Agents; Apoptotic; Binding; Body Composition; Breast; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cell Aging; Cells; Chronic; Data; Decidual Cell Reactions; Development; Disease; Endometrial Cyst; Eukaryota; Family; Female; Female Genital Diseases; Female infertility; Fertility; Fertility Study; Gene Expression; Gene Mutation; Genes; Goals; Health; Health Status; Heart Diseases; Heme; Homeostasis; Human; Immune System Diseases; Incidence; Infertility; Life; Link; Literature; Longevity; LoxP-flanked allele; Maintenance; Male Infertility; Malignant Female Reproductive System Neoplasm; Malignant Neoplasms; Mediating; Membrane; Menopause; Metabolic Diseases; Mus; Mutagenesis; Mutation; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Onset of illness; Organ; Outcome; Ovarian; Ovarian aging; Ovary; Pathway interactions; Phenotype; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Pregnancy loss; Premature aging syndrome; Progesterone; Progesterone Receptors; Proteins; Pulmonary Heart Disease; Recurrence; Reporting; Reproductive Health; Risk; Risk Factors; Spermatogenesis; Subcategory; Systems Biology; Testing; Tissues; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Uterine Cancer; Uterus; Woman; adverse pregnancy outcome; biomarker identification; comorbidity; endometriosis; epidemiology study; female fertility; female reproductive system; frailty; gene function; healthspan; high risk; male; member; men; neoplastic; novel marker; overexpression; premature; preterm premature rupture of membranes; primary ovarian insufficiency; reproductive; reproductive senescence; reproductive system disorder; reproductive tract; segregation; senescence; statistics; stem; subfertility

Project Summary/Abstract Strong evidence exists to support the concept that accelerated ovarian aging associates with adverse health outcomes. Epidemiological studies consistently report an association between age at menopause and cardiovascular disease. Women with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) have at least a 2-fold increased risk of developing heart disease. Progesterone receptor membrane component (PGRMC) 1 and PGRMC2 mediate some of the anti-mitotic and anti-apoptotic actions of progesterone in female reproductive tissues. Despite being a purported progesterone receptor, PGRMC proteins are ubiquitously expressed in most tissues and have their evolutionary origin in single celled eukaryotes. As such, it is likely that these proteins have both progesterone- dependent and progesterone-independent actions. Our lab recently floxed the murine Pgrmc1 and Pgrmc2 genes in an effort to evaluate the function of these genes in the context of female fertility. Mutagenesis studies using Pgr-Cre mice revealed that Pgrmc1 and Pgrmc2 are essential for female fertility in that conditional ablation of each gene results in subfertility that progresses to premature reproductive senescence. Similar results were observed when PGRMC1 is conditionally over-expressed in female reproductive tissues. Following conditional mutagenesis of each gene, or over-expression of PGRMC1 in the female reproductive tract, a premature reproductive senescence phenotype occurred when the expression of Pgrmc genes was decreased or increased. Interestingly, this senescent reproductive phenotype was accompanied by premature aging of the uterus and ovary (i.e., premature ovarian insufficiency, POI). This POI-like phenotype mirrors that of women with a functional mutation in the heme binding domain of PGRMC1. Given the causal relationship between Pgrmc gene mutations and development of fertility issues that advance to infertility in mice, as well as the association of human PGRMC gene mutations with POI, female reproductive cancers, and many other reproductive and non-reproductive diseases, it is hypothesized that PGRMCs can be used as markers of fertility and overall health status. This hypothesis will be tested by first evaluating expression of PGRMC1 and PGRMC2 throughout the lifespan in 12 major organs that regulate healthspan and present with age-onset disease. The consequences of disrupting PGRMC homeostasis in female reproductive tissues on overall health will then be evaluated. Here, PGRMC genes will be selectively ablated or over-expressed in the female reproductive system and then frailty, body composition, healthspan and cellular senescence parameters will be comprehensively evaluated in an effort to directly link reproductive health to overall health.

项目概要/摘要 强有力的证据支持卵巢加速老化与不良健康相关的概念 结果。流行病学研究一致报告绝经年龄与绝经年龄之间存在关联。 心血管疾病。患有卵巢早衰 (POI) 的女性的风险至少增加 2 倍 患心脏病。黄体酮受体膜成分 (PGRMC) 1 和 PGRMC2 介导 黄体酮在女性生殖组织中的一些抗有丝分裂和抗细胞凋亡作用。尽管是 PGRMC 蛋白是一种所谓的黄体酮受体，在大多数组织中普遍表达，并具有其 单细胞真核生物的进化起源。因此，这些蛋白质很可能同时含有孕酮- 依赖和黄体酮独立的作用。我们的实验室最近对小鼠 Pgrmc1 和 Pgrmc2 进行了 flox 处理 基因，以评估这些基因在女性生育能力中的功能。诱变研究 使用 Pgr-Cre 小鼠发现，在条件消融中，Pgrmc1 和 Pgrmc2 对于女性生育力至关重要 每个基因的缺失都会导致生育力低下，进而发展为过早的生殖衰老。类似的结果是 当 PGRMC1 在女性生殖组织中条件性过度表达时观察到。以下有条件 每个基因的突变，或 PGRMC1 在女性生殖道中的过度表达，都会导致早产 当 Pgrmc 基因表达下降或 增加。有趣的是，这种衰老的生殖表型伴随着细胞的过早衰老。 子宫和卵巢（即卵巢早衰，POI）。这种类似 POI 的表型反映了患有以下疾病的女性的表型： PGRMC1 血红素结合域的功能突变。鉴于 Pgrmc 之间的因果关系 基因突变和导致小鼠不育的生育问题的发展，以及相关性 人类 PGRMC 基因突变与 POI、女性生殖癌症以及许多其他生殖和癌症的关系 非生殖疾病，假设 PGRMC 可以用作生育力和总体的标志物 健康状况。该假设将通过首先评估 PGRMC1 和 PGRMC2 的表达来检验 调节健康寿命并出现老年性疾病的 12 个主要器官的寿命。后果 然后将评估破坏女性生殖组织 PGRMC 稳态对整体健康的影响。这里， PGRMC基因会在女性生殖系统中选择性消融或过度表达，进而导致女性衰弱、 身体成分、健康寿命和细胞衰老参数将得到综合评估 努力将生殖健康与整体健康直接联系起来。