The stimulatory effect of human chorionic gonadotropin on amino acid uptake by amphibian follicles
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The stimulatory effect of human chorionic gonadotropin on amino acid uptake by amphibian follicles
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Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) stimulates the uptake of eight different amino acids and four nucleosides by Xenopus laevis ovarian follicles. This hormone also stimulates amino acid uptake in the follicles of another amphibian, Callyptocephallela caudiverbera. The stimulation of uptake is due to a reduction in the amino acid concentration required for half-maximal uptake velocity and not to an increment in Vmax. The effect of hCG does not require protein synthesis but requires physiological conditions of temperature and pH. Incorporation of radioactive exogenous amino acid into proteins is also stimulated by the hormone, but high-resolution electrophoresis shows that there are no drastic qualitative changes in the pattern of proteins synthesized at early times after hCG treatment. The effect of hCG on the uptake of exogenous amino acids does not appear to be required for oocyte maturation because other hormones such as progesterone testosterone which induce maturation do not increase amino acid uptake. Also the concentration of hCG required for oocyte maturation
is significantly lower than that required for an effect on amino acid transport. Inhibitors of oocyte maturation such as theophylline and cycloheximide do not inhibit the action of hCG on
amino acid uptake by the amphibian follicles
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URI: https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/154201
DOI: 10.1016/0012-1606(78)90126-4
ISSN: 00121606
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Developmental Biology, 63, 213-223 (1978)
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