Regulation of granulosa cell apoptosis by death ligand–receptor signaling |
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| Authors: | Fuko MATSUDA-MINEHATA Akihisa MAEDA Yuan CHENG Takafumi SAI Hiroshi GONDA Yasufumi GOTO Noboru MANABE |
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| Institution: | Animal Resource Science Center, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kasama, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Several hundred thousand primordial follicles are present in the mammalian ovary, however, only 1% develop to the preovulatory stage and finally ovulate. The remainder will be eliminated via a degenerative process called ‘atresia’. The endocrinological regulatory mechanisms involved in follicular development and atresia have largely been characterized but the precise temporal and molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of these events remain unknown. Many recent studies suggest that apoptosis in ovarian granulosa cells plays a crucial role in follicular atresia. Notably, death ligand‐receptor interaction and subsequent intracellular signaling have been demonstrated to be the key mechanisms regulating granulosa cell apoptosis. In this review we provide an overview of granulosa cell apoptosis regulated by death ligand‐receptor signaling. The roles of death ligands and receptors Fas ligand (FasL)]‐Fas, tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα)‐TNF receptor and TNFα‐related apoptosis‐inducing ligand (TRAIL)‐TRAIL receptor (TRAILR)] and intracellular death‐signal mediating molecules (Fas‐associated death domain protein), TNF receptor 1‐associated death domain protein, caspases, apoptotic protease‐activating factor 1, TNFR‐associated factor 2 and cellular FLICE‐like inhibitory protein in granulosa cells are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | apoptosis cellular procaspase-8-like inhibitory protein death ligand death receptor granulosa cell |
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