Evidence that 17α,20β,21-trihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one is a maturation-inducing steroid in spotted seatrout |
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| Authors: | Peter Thomas John M Trant |
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| Institution: | (1) Marine Science Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, 78373, U.S.A.;(2) Present address: Health Science Center, Dept. of Biochemistry, The University of Texas, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX, 75235, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Ovarian steroidogenesis during final oocyte maturation (FOM) in the spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) was investigated by incubating ovarian fragments with tritiated pregnenolone, followed by chromatographic separation of
the radioactive products. The major tritiated steroid produced during FOM comigrated with 17α,20β,21-trihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one
(20β-dihydro-11-deoxycortisol, 20β-S) on HPLC and TLC. Only minor amounts of radioactive material coeluted with 17α,20β-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one
(17α,20β-P), 11-deoxycorticosterone (DOC), estradiol-17β and testosterone standards in the HPLC system. Additional chromatography
by TLC confirmed the presence of radioactive estradiol-17β and testosterone but not 17α,20β-P and DOC.
All the ovarian steroids producedin vitro during FOM were assayed for their ability to induce germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) of spotted seatrout oocytes. Twenty
grams of ovarian tissue were incubated with human chorionic gonadotropin and exogenous pregnenolone. The steroidal products
were purified by HPLC and TLC. Most of the maturation-inducing activity was confined to steroidal material which comigrated
in these systems with 20β-S. This material was active at a concentration of 1 ng steroid/ml medium in the GVBD assay. Smaller
amounts of material which coeluted with 11-deoxycortisol, DOC, 17α,20β-P and several minor unidentified fractions induced
GVBD at concentrations of 10 ng steroid(s)/ml.
The structure-activity relationships of authentic steroids in inducing GVBD of spotted seatrout oocytes was investigated.
Hydroxylation at the 17α, 20β or 21 positions increased potency to induce GVBD. Steroids with multiple hydroxyl groups at
the 17α and 20β positions (17α, 20β-P) and at the 17α, 20β, and 21 positions (20β-S) had maximum biological activity in the
GVBD bioassay. The results suggest that 20β-S is a major maturation-inducing steroid in spotted seatrout. |
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| Keywords: | 17α 20β 21-trihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one 20β -S maturation-inducing steroid oocyte maturation steroidogenesis ovary GVBD spotted seatrout perciform marine teleost |
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