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Expression and proteasomal degradation of the major vault protein (MVP) in mammalian oocytes and zygotes

¹ Departments of Animal Science and ² Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA, ³ Constantine the Philosopher University and ⁴ Research Institute of Animal Production, Nitra, Slovak Republic and ⁵ Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA

Correspondence should be addressed to P Sutovsky, Department of Animal Science, S141 Asizc, Columbia, Mo 65203, USA Email: SutovskyP{at}missouri.edu

Major vault protein (MVP), also called lung resistance-related protein is a ribonucleoprotein comprising a major part (>70%) of the vault particle. The function of vault particle is not known, although it appears to be involved in multi-drug resistance and cellular signaling. Here we show that MVP is expressed in mammalian, porcine, and human ova and in the porcine preimplantation embryo. MVP was identified by matrix-assisted laser-desorption ionization-time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) peptide sequencing and Western blotting as a protein accumulating in porcine zygotes cultured in the presence of specific proteasomal inhibitor MG132. MVP also accumulated in poor-quality human oocytes donated by infertile couples and porcine embryos that failed to develop normally after in vitro fertilization or somatic cell nuclear transfer. Normal porcine oocytes and embryos at various stages of preimplantation development showed mostly cytoplasmic labeling, with increased accumulation of vault particles around large cytoplasmic lipid inclusions and membrane vesicles. Occasionally, MVP was associated with the nuclear envelope and nucleolus precursor bodies. Nucleotide sequences with a high degree of homology to human MVP gene sequence were identified in porcine oocyte and endometrial cell cDNA libraries. We interpret these data as the evidence for the expression and ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent turnover of MVP in the mammalian ovum. Similar to carcinoma cells, MVP could fulfill a cell-protecting function during early embryonic development.

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