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  • Title: Selection of the dominant follicle and insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-binding proteins: evidence that pregnancy-associated plasma protein A contributes to proteolysis of IGF-binding protein 5 in bovine follicular fluid.
    Author: Rivera GM, Fortune JE.
    Journal: Endocrinology; 2003 Feb; 144(2):437-46. PubMed ID: 12538602.
    Abstract:
    Development of a dominant follicle is associated with decreased intrafollicular low molecular weight IGF-binding proteins (namely IGFBP-2, -4, and -5) and increased proteolysis of IGFBP-4 by pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPP-A). In addition to IGFBP-4 proteolytic activity, bovine follicular fluid contains strong proteolytic activity for IGFBP-5, but not for IGFBP-2. Here we show that the IGFBP-5 protease present in bovine follicular fluid is a neutral/basic pH-favoring, Zn(2+) metalloprotease very similar to the previously described IGFBP-4 protease. We hypothesized that immunoneutralization and immunoprecipitation with anti-PAPP-A antibodies would result in abrogation of the IGFBP-4, but not the IGFBP-5, proteolytic activity in follicular fluid. As expected, anti-PAPP-A antibodies were able to neutralize and precipitate the IGFBP-4, but not the IGFBP-5, proteolytic activity of human pregnancy serum, which was used as a positive control for PAPP-A. Surprisingly, immunoneutralization and immunoprecipitation of follicular fluid from bovine preovulatory follicles with anti-PAPP-A antibodies abrogated both IGFBP-4 and IGFBP-5 proteolysis. Quantitative results derived from phosphorimaging revealed a complete inhibition of both IGFBP-4 and -5 proteolysis by follicular fluid incubated for 2 or 5 h in the presence of anti-PAPP-A antibodies. After 18 h of incubation, anti-PAPP-A antibodies still inhibited IGFBP-5 degradation, although with an efficiency lower than that for IGFBP-4 degradation. Both proteolytic activities have identical electrophoretic mobility, and a single band ( approximately 400 kDa) was detected by Western immunoblotting of bovine follicular fluid with anti-PAPP-A antibodies. Proteolysis of IGFBP-5 was readily detectable in follicular fluid from dominant follicles and was negligible in subordinate follicles from the same cohort. These results suggest that an active intrafollicular IGFBP-4/-5 proteolytic system, in which PAPP-A is the major protease involved, is an important determinant of follicular fate.
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