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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Transcriptomic analysis of the seminal vesicle response to the reproductive toxicant acrylamide |
Author: | Skerrett-Byrne, D.A. Nixon, B. Bromfield, E.G. Breen, J. Trigg, N.A. Stanger, S.J. Bernstein, I.R. Anderson, A.L. Lord, T. Aitken, R.J. Roman, S.D. Robertson, S.A. Schjenken, J.E. |
Citation: | BMC Genomics, 2021; 22(1):728-1-728-22 |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
ISSN: | 1471-2164 1471-2164 |
Statement of Responsibility: | David A. Skerrett-Byrne, Brett Nixon, Elizabeth G. Bromfield, James Breen, Natalie A. Trigg, Simone J. Stanger, Ilana R. Bernstein, Amanda L. Anderson, Tessa Lord, R. John Aitken, Shaun D. Roman, Sarah A. Robertson, and John E. Schjenken |
Abstract: | Background: The seminal vesicles synthesise bioactive factors that support gamete function, modulate the female reproductive tract to promote implantation, and influence developmental programming of offspring phenotype. Despite the significance of the seminal vesicles in reproduction, their biology remains poorly defined. Here, to advance understanding of seminal vesicle biology, we analyse the mouse seminal vesicle transcriptome under normal physiological conditions and in response to acute exposure to the reproductive toxicant acrylamide. Mice were administered acrylamide (25 mg/kg bw/day) or vehicle control daily for five consecutive days prior to collecting seminal vesicle tissue 72 h following the final injection. Results: A total of 15,304 genes were identified in the seminal vesicles with those encoding secreted proteins amongst the most abundant. In addition to reproductive hormone pathways, functional annotation of the seminal vesicle transcriptome identified cell proliferation, protein synthesis, and cellular death and survival pathways as prominent biological processes. Administration of acrylamide elicited 70 differentially regulated (fold-change ≥1.5 or ≤ 0.67) genes, several of which were orthogonally validated using quantitative PCR. Pathways that initiate gene and protein synthesis to promote cellular survival were prominent amongst the dysregulated pathways. Inflammation was also a key transcriptomic response to acrylamide, with the cytokine, Colony stimulating factor 2 (Csf2) identified as a top-ranked upstream driver and inflammatory mediator associated with recovery of homeostasis. Early growth response (Egr1), C-C motif chemokine ligand 8 (Ccl8), and Collagen, type V, alpha 1 (Col5a1) were also identified amongst the dysregulated genes. Additionally, acrylamide treatment led to subtle changes in the expression of genes that encode proteins secreted by the seminal vesicle, including the complement regulator, Complement factor b (Cfb). Conclusions: These data add to emerging evidence demonstrating that the seminal vesicles, like other male reproductive tract tissues, are sensitive to environmental insults, and respond in a manner with potential to exert impact on fetal development and later offspring health. |
Keywords: | Acrylamide; Reproduction; Reproductive toxicant; Seminal vesicle; Transcriptomics |
Rights: | © The Author(s). 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
DOI: | 10.1186/s12864-021-07951-1 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1147932 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1163319 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1154837 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1138701 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07951-1 |
Appears in Collections: | Medicine publications |
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