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Tan J, Zhang J, Xie L, Sun G, Zhang X, Li P, Liao X, Wu W, Zhang W, Wang J, Li J, Tian M. Influence of l-NAME -induced hypertension on spermatogenesis and sperm tsRNA profile in mice. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2023; 683:149110. [PMID: 37866110 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.10.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2023] [Revised: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
Abstract
Sperm is the key media between the father's aberrant exposure and the offspring's phenotype. Whether paternal hypertension affects offspring through sperm epigenetics remains to be explored. To investigate the underlying mechanisms, we constructed a hypertensive mice model induced by drinking l-NAME and found that spermatocytes and spermatids in the testis were increased significantly after l-NAME treatment. The sequencing of sperm showed that tsRNA profiles changed with 315 tsRNAs (195 up-regulated and 120 down-regulated) altered. Meanwhile, KEGG pathway analysis showed that the target genes of these altered tsRNAs were involved in influencing some important signaling pathways, such as the cAMP signaling path, the mTOR signaling path, the Hippo signaling path, and the Ras signaling path. Bioinformatics of tsRNA-miRNA-mRNA pathway interactions revealed several ceRNA mechanisms, such as tsRNA-00051, the ceRNA of miR-128-1-5p, co-targeting Agap1. This study provides evidence for enriching and further understanding the pathophysiology and paternal epigenetic mechanisms of testicular reproduction, as well as contributing to a rethinking of the transgenerational reprogramming mechanisms of paternal exposure in hypertension.
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- Jin Tan
- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China
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- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China
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- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China
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- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, The Research Team for Reproduction Health and Translational Medicine of Hunan Normal University (2023JC101), Changsha, China
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- Institute of Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Fifth Department of Medicine (Nephrology/Endocrinology/Rheumatology), University Medical Centre Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China
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- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China
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- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China
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- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China
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- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China
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- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, The Research Team for Reproduction Health and Translational Medicine of Hunan Normal University (2023JC101), Changsha, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Study and Discovery of Small Targeted Molecules of Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Model Animals and Stem Cell Biology in Hunan Province, School of Medicine, Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, Changsha, China; The Engineering Research Center of Reproduction and Translational Medicine of Hunan Province, The Research Team for Reproduction Health and Translational Medicine of Hunan Normal University (2023JC101), Changsha, China.
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LI BB, PANG K, HAO L, ZANG GH, WANG J, WANG XT, ZHANG JJ, CAI LJ, YANG CD, HAN CH. Corosolic acid improves erectile function in metabolic syndrome rats by reducing reactive oxygen species generation and increasing nitric oxide bioavailability. Food Sci Technol 2022. [DOI: 10.1590/fst.108821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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- Bi-Bo LI
- Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, China
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- Xuzhou Central Hospital, China
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Liu QW, Yang ZH, Jiang J, Jiang R. Icariin modulates eNOS activity via effect on post-translational protein-protein interactions to improve erectile function of spontaneously hypertensive rats. Andrology 2021; 9:342-351. [PMID: 33507631 DOI: 10.1111/andr.12875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2020] [Revised: 07/17/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Type 5 phosphodiesterase inhibitor (PDE5I) has become the first-line treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED). However, its effective rate for hypertension ED is only 60%-70%. How to improve the efficacy of ED treatment is the focus of current research. OBJECTIVE To explore whether icariin can improve the erectile function of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) by affecting post-translational protein-protein interactions to regulate endothelial nitric oxide synthetase (eNOS) activity. METHOD Twelve-week-old healthy male SHR rats and Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) were randomly divided into four groups: SHR control group, SHR + icariin (10 mg/kg·d gavage) treatment group, WKY control group, and WKY + icariin (10 mg/kg·d gavage) treatment group (n = 5). After 4 weeks, the maximum penile intracavernous pressure/mean arterial pressure (ICPmax/MAP), the expression of heat-shock protein 90 (Hsp90), caveolin-1, calmodulin, p-eNOS, and eNOS in penile cavernous tissue and the content of nitric oxide (NO) and cGMP were measured. The interaction between eNOS and Hsp90, caveolin-1, and calmodulin were detected by immunoprecipitation. RESULT The ICPmax/MAP in the SHR + icariin treatment group (0.08 ± 0.01, 0.23 ± 0.07, 0.40 ± 0.05) was significantly higher than the SHR group (0.03 ± 0.01, 0.13 ± 0.03, 0.21 ± 0.02) under 3V and 5V electrical stimulations (P < .05). Compared with the SHR group, the expression of HSP90, calmodulin, P-eNOS, eNOS, and P-eNOS/eNOS in the penile cavernous tissue of rats in the WKY group and the SHR + icariin treatment group were significantly increased (P < .05), and the expression of caveolin-1 was significantly decreased (P < .05). The NO content (2.16 ± 0.22 μmol/g) and cGMP concentration (3.69 ± 0.12 pmol/mg) in the SHR + icariin treatment group were significantly higher than those in the SHR group (1.01 ± 0.14 μmol/g, 2.31 ± 0.22 pmol/mg) (P < .05). Compared with the SHR group, the interaction between eNOS and HSP90 in the cavernosa of the rats in the SHR + icariin treatment group was significantly increased (P < .05), the interaction between eNOS and caveolin-1 was significantly decreased (P < .01), and the interaction between eNOS and calmodulin did not significantly change. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION Up-regulating the expression of HSP90 and calmodulin and inhibiting caveolin-1 in SHR corpus cavernosum, promoting the interaction between eNOS and HSP90, inhibiting the interaction between eNOS and caveolin-1, increasing p-eNOS/eNOS, may be the mechanism of icariin that improves SHR erectile function.
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- Qin-Wen Liu
- Department of Urology, the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- Department of Thyroid Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- Department of Urology, the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
- Nephropathy Clinical Medical Research Center of Sichuan Province, Luzhou, China
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