Mitochondrial activity in gametes and transmission of viable mtDNA

Biology Direct

Liliana Milani¹  Fabrizio Ghiselli¹ 

[1] Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 3, Bologna, 40126, Italy

关键词: Balbiani body;    mtDNA selection;    Ageing;    Oxidative stress;    Reactive oxygen species;    Oxidative phosphorylation;    Germ line mitochondria;    Doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondria;    Mitochondrial inheritance;    Mitochondrial membrane potential;   

Others  :  1190858
DOI  :  10.1186/s13062-015-0057-6

 received in 2014-10-23, accepted in 2015-04-29,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

The retention of a genome in mitochondria (mtDNA) has several consequences, among which the problem of ensuring a faithful transmission of its genetic information through generations despite the accumulation of oxidative damage by reactive oxygen species (ROS) predicted by the free radical theory of ageing. A division of labour between male and female germ line mitochondria was proposed since mtDNA is maternally inherited, female gametes would prevent damages by repressing oxidative phosphorylation, thus being quiescent genetic templates. We assessed mitochondrial activity in gametes of an unusual biological system (doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondria, DUI), in which also sperm mtDNA is transmitted to the progeny, thus having to overcome the problem of maintaining genetic information viability while producing ATP for swimming.

Results

Ultrastructural analysis shows no difference in the conformation of mitochondrial cristae in male and female mature gametes, while mitochondria in immature oocytes exhibit a simpler internal structure. Our data on transcriptional activity in germ line mitochondria show variability between sexes and different developmental stages, but we do not find evidence for transcriptional quiescence of mitochondria. Our observations on mitochondrial membrane potential are consistent with mitochondria being active in both male and female gametes.

Conclusions

Our findings and the literature we discussed may be consistent with the hypothesis that template mitochondria are not functionally silenced, on the contrary their activity might be fundamental for the inheritance mechanism. We think that during gametogenesis, fertilization and embryo development, mitochondria undergo selection for different traits (e.g. replication, membrane potential), increasing the probability of the transmission of functional organelles. In these phases of life cycle, the great reduction in mtDNA copy number per organelle/cell and the stochastic segregation of mtDNA variants would greatly improve the efficiency of selection. When a higher mtDNA copy number per organelle/cell is present, selection on mtDNA deleterious mutants is less effective, due to the buffering effect of wild-type variants. In our opinion, a combination of drift and selection on germ line mtDNA population, might be responsible for the maintenance of viable mitochondrial genetic information through generations, and a mitochondrial activity would be necessary for the selective process.

Reviewers

This article was reviewed by Nick Lane, Fedor S Severin and Fyodor Kondrashov.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Milani and Ghiselli; licensee BioMed Central.

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