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Our study of the events that take place during meiotic prophase I provide a better understanding not only of female meiosis during development, but also highlights biomarkers that can be used to study infertility and offers insights in germline sex dimorphism in humans. Analysis of X-linked expression between sexes during meiotic prophase I suggested a transient X-linked enrichment during female pachytene, that contrasts with the meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in males.
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We identified not only key players involved in the process of meiosis, but also highlighted the molecular components that could be responsible for changes in cellular morphology that occur during this developmental period, when the female FGC acquire their typical (sex-specific) oocyte shape as well as sex-differences in the regulation of DNA methylation. We have compared those between male and female germ cells in similar stages of meiotic prophase I and revealed conserved and specific features between sexes. Analysis of single-cell transcriptomics data from human fetal germ cells (FGC) allowed us to identify the molecular signatures of female meiotic prophase I stages leptotene, zygotene, pachytene and diplotene. Therefore, it remains unclear how the different stages of meiotic prophase I between human oogenesis and spermatogenesis compare. Hence, the knowledge regarding progression through meiotic prophase I is mainly focused on human male spermatogenesis and female oocyte maturation during adulthood. In contrast to males, meiotic prophase I in females initiates during development. The timing and length of meiosis to produce female and male gametes differ considerably. All rights reserved.During gametogenesis in mammals, meiosis ensures the production of haploid gametes. MPF Meiosis resumption Oocyte Protein phosphatases.Ĭopyright © 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. This review aims to provide a summary of the current understanding of the signaling pathways involved in regulating MPF activity during prophase I arrest and reentry into meiosis of mammalian oocytes. Accumulating evidence suggests that the net MPF activity that drives the resumption of meiosis in oocytes depends on the activation status of CDK1 antagonizing PPs. In this way, CDK1 both phosphorylates its substrates and protects them from being dephosphorylated. Active CDK1 not only phosphorylates different meiotic phosphoproteins during the resumption of meiosis but also inhibits their rapid dephosphorylation by inhibiting the activities of CDK1 antagonizing protein phosphatases (PPs). LH-mediated signaling manipulates a vast array of molecules to activate CDK1. Phosphorylation-mediated inactivation of CDK1 and constant degradation of cyclin B1 keep MPF activity low during prophase I arrest. Prophase I arrest in the immature oocyte results from the maintenance of low activity of maturation promoting factor (MPF), which consists of a catalytic subunit (CDK1) and regulatory subunit (cyclin B1). Mammalian oocytes arrest at prophase of meiosis I at around birth and they remain arrested at this stage until puberty when the preovulatory surge of luteinizing hormone (LH) causes ovulation.