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  • Title: Effects of proteinase inhibitors on preimplantation embryos in the rat.
    Author: Ichikawa S, Shibata T, Takehara Y, Tamada H, Oda K, Murao S.
    Journal: J Reprod Fertil; 1985 Mar; 73(2):385-90. PubMed ID: 3838771.
    Abstract:
    Proteinase inhibitors of microbial origin were injected into the uterine horns of mated rats at 14:00 h on Day 5 of pregnancy (spermatozoa in vaginal smear = Day 1), and 5 or 6 h later the embryos were flushed from the horns and examined. Chymostatin and alpha-MAPI, inhibitors of chymotrypsin-like serine proteinase and thiol proteinases, as well as thiolstatin, an inhibitor of thiol proteinases, significantly inhibited embryo growth. The inhibitory activity of alpha-MAPI on embryonic growth was distinctly greater than that of thiolstatin, although the ID50 values of the two inhibitors to papain are similar. Antipain and leupeptin which are inhibitors of trypsin-like and thiol proteinases, and talopeptin, an inhibitor of metal proteinases, significantly interrupted the removal of the zona pellucida from expanding blastocysts. These results suggest that (1) a chymotrypsin-like proteinase seems to be important to the growth of the embryo, (2) a thiol proteinase may participate in embryonic growth, and (3) a trypsin-like proteinase and a metal proteinase are likely to participate in zonalysis.
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