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  • Title: SAPKgamma/JNK1 and SAPKalpha/JNK2 mRNA transcripts are expressed in early gestation human placenta and mouse eggs, preimplantation embryos, and trophoblast stem cells.
    Author: Zhong W, Sun T, Wang QT, Wang Y, Xie Y, Johnson A, Leach R, Puscheck EE, Rappolee DA.
    Journal: Fertil Steril; 2004 Oct; 82 Suppl 3():1140-8. PubMed ID: 15474087.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To test early-gestation human placenta, a human trophoblast cell line, mouse eggs, preimplantation embryos, and a mouse trophoblast cell line for the expression of mRNA transcripts for stress-activated protein kinase/c-Jun N-terminal kinase (SAPKgamma/JNK1, SAPKalpha/JNK2, and SAPKbeta/JNK3). DESIGN: Whole RNA was isolated from the tissue sources listed above and control tissues, and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was performed to assay for the qualitative and semiquantitative presence of SAPKgamma/JNK1, SAPKalpha/JNK2, and SAPKbeta/JNK3. SETTING: None. PATIENT(S): None. INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): The presence and magnitude of amplimer amounts in gels or gene hybridization on Affymetrix cDNA arrays of RT-PCR products of reactions for SAPKgamma/JNK1, SAPKalpha/JNK2, and SAPKbeta/JNK3. RESULT(S): SAPKgamma/JNK1 and SAPKalpha/JNK2 mRNA transcripts are present in early-gestation human placenta, a human trophoblast cell line, mouse eggs, preimplantation embryos, and a mouse trophoblast cell line at levels similar to positive control levels. SAPKalpha/JNK2 is expressed at the highest level of the three transcripts in the family. SAPKbeta/JNK3 is present at levels that are 1/100-1/1,000 those of the positive control and in some cases at the apparent level of the negative control (previously measured by the less-sensitive Northern blot analysis). Analysis with an Affymetrix cDNA array suggested that SAPKalpha/JNK2 and 38 kDa mitogen-activated protein kinase had the highest mRNA expression measured for each of three family members. CONCLUSION(S): Mitotic placental trophoblast cell lines and primary conceptus/embryo samples containing early placental trophoblasts express SAPKalpha/JNK2 at higher levels than SAPKgamma/JNK1, but not (only low background levels of) SAPKbeta/JNK3 mRNA transcripts. This suggests that SAPKgamma/JNK1 and SAPKalpha/JNK2 may be important mediators of stress-induced responses in early implanting conceptuses that could mediate embryo loss.
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