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  • Title: Methylation in bovine luteal cells as a regulator of luteinizing hormone action.
    Author: Milvae RA, Alila HW, Hansel W.
    Journal: Biol Reprod; 1983 Nov; 29(4):849-55. PubMed ID: 6315096.
    Abstract:
    Experiments were conducted to determine if methylation is a part of the mechanism by which luteinizing hormone (LH) and epinephrine stimulate progesterone production by dispersed bovine luteal cells. Corpora lutea (CL) were collected from 24 Holstein heifers on Day 10 of the estrous cycle and dispersed with collagenase. Net progesterone accumulation, representing total progesterone synthesized by 10(6) cells during a 2-h incubation was determined. Cells from 7 CL were treated with 0 and 5 ng LH, in the presence and absence of methylation inhibitor, S-adenosyl-homocysteine (SAH, 1 mM). LH-stimulated progesterone production was inhibited (P less than 0.05) in the presence of SAH(209 +/- 19 vs. 119 +/- 7 ng/10(6) cells). In the absence of LH, progesterone production was unaffected (87 +/- 22 vs. 68 +/- 28) by SAH. Cells from 4 CL were treated with 10 micrograms epinephrine or 10 micrograms isoproterenol with and without SAH. Both epinephrine and isoproterenol-stimulated progesterone production was inhibited (P less than 0.05) by the presence of SAH (204 +/- 24 vs. 125 +/- 18 and 198 +/- 15 vs. 130 +/- 8). Progesterone production by cells from 4 CL was unaffected by the presence of SAH when treated with Medium 199 (M199) (75 +/- 32), 10 micrograms cholera toxin, which directly stimulates adenylate cyclase on the cytoplasmic side of plasma membranes (168 +/- 19), or 3 mM dibutyryl cAMP (210 +/- 40).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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