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    A human FSHB transgene encoding the double N-glycosylation mutant (Asn(7 Delta) Asn(24 Delta)) FSH beta subunit fails to rescue Fshb null mice

    Date
    2016-05-05
    Author
    Wang, Huizhen
    Butnev, Vladimir Y.
    Bousfield, George R.
    Kumar, T. Rajendra
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    Wang, Huizhen; Butnev, Vladimir Y.; Bousfield, George R.; Kumar, T. Rajendra. 2016. A human FSHB transgene encoding the double N-glycosylation mutant (Asn(7 Delta) Asn(24 Delta)) FSH beta subunit fails to rescue Fshb null mice. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, vol. 426, 5 May 2016:pp 113–124
    Abstract
    Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) is a gonadotrope-derived heterodimeric glycoprotein. Both the common alpha and hormone-specific beta subunits contain Asn-linked N-glycan chains. Recently, macro heterogeneous FSH glycoforms consisting of beta-subunits that differ in N-glycan number were identified in pituitaries of several species and subsequently the recombinant human FSH glycoforms biochemically characterized. Although chemical modification and in vitro site-directed mutagenesis studies defined the roles of N-glycans on gonadotropin subunits, in vivo functional analyses in a whole-animal setting are lacking. Here, we have generated transgenic mice with gonadotrope-specific expression of either an HFSHBWT transgene that encodes human FSH beta WT subunit or an HFSHBdgc transgene that encodes a human FSH beta(Asn7 Delta) (24 Delta) double N-glycosylation site mutant subunit, and separately introduced these transgenes onto Fshb null background using a genetic rescue strategy. We demonstrate that the human FSH beta Mn7 Delta (24 Delta) double N-glycosylation site mutant subunit, unlike human FSH beta WT subunit, inefficiently combines with the mouse alpha-subunit in pituitaries of Fshb null mice. FSH dimer containing this mutant FSH beta subunit is inefficiently secreted with very low levels detectable in serum. Fshb null male mice expressing HFSHBdgc transgene are fertile and exhibit testis tubule size and sperm number similar to those of Fshb null mice. Fshb null female mice expressing the mutant, but not WT human FSH beta subunit containing FSH dimer are infertile, demonstrate no evidence of estrus cycles, and many of the FSH-responsive genes remain suppressed in their ovaries. Thus, HFSHBdgc unlike HFSHBWT transgene does not rescue Fshb null mice. Our genetic approach provides direct in vivo evidence that N-linked glycans on FSH beta subunit are essential for its efficient assembly with the a-subunit to form FSH heterodimer in pituitary. Our studies also reveal that N-glycans on FSH beta subunit are essential for FSH secretion and FSH in vivo bioactivity to regulate gonadal growth and physiology.
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2016.02.015
    http://hdl.handle.net/10057/12078
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