Rescue of failed oocyte activation after ICSI in a mouse model of male factor infertility by recombinant phospholipase Cζ

Sanusi, Randa, Yu, Yuansong, Nomikos, Michail, Lai, F. Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2852-8547 and Swann, Karl ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4355-1449 2015. Rescue of failed oocyte activation after ICSI in a mouse model of male factor infertility by recombinant phospholipase Cζ. Molecular Human Reproduction 21 (10) , pp. 783-791. 10.1093/molehr/gav042

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Abstract

Artificial oocyte activation to overcome failed fertilization after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in human oocytes typically employs Ca2+ ionophores to produce a single cytosolic Ca2+ increase. In contrast, recombinant phospholipase Czeta (PLCζ) causes Ca2+ oscillations indistinguishable from those occurring during fertilization, but remains untested for its efficacy in a scenario of ICSI fertilization failure. Here, we compare PLCζ with other activation stimuli in a mouse model of failed oocyte activation after ICSI, in which heat-treated sperm are injected into mouse oocytes. We show that increasing periods of 56°C exposure of sperm produces a progressive loss of Ca2+ oscillations after ICSI. The decrease in Ca2+ oscillations produces a reduction in oocyte activation and embryo development to the blastocyst stage. We treated such oocytes that failed to activate after ICSI either with Ca2+ ionophore, or with Sr2+ media which causes Ca2+ oscillations, or we injected them with recombinant human PLCζ. All these treatments rescued oocyte activation, although Sr2+ and PLCζ gave the highest rates of development to blastocyst. When recombinant PLCζ was given to oocytes previously injected with control sperm, they developed normally to the blastocyst stage at rates similar to that after control ICSI. The data suggest that recombinant human PLCζ protein is an efficient means of rescuing oocyte activation after ICSI failure and that it can be effectively used even if the sperm already contains endogenous Ca2+ releasing activity.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine Biosciences
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	PLCζ; ICSI; fertilization; sperm; oocyte
Additional Information:	This article is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license and permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	1360-9947
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Date of Acceptance:	13 July 2015
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2023 19:04
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/75475

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