Caveolin-1 Regulation and Function in Mouse Uterus during Early Pregnancy and under Human In Vitro Decidualization

Zhuo Song, Bo Li, Mengyuan Li, Jiamei Luo, Yuqi Hong, Yuying He, Siting Chen, Zhenshan Yang, Chen Liang, Zengming Yang

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Abstract

Decidualization is essential to rodent and primate pregnancy. Senescence is increased during decidualization. Failure of senescence clearance during decidualization will cause pregnancy abnormality. Caveolin-1 is located in plasmalemmal caveolae and involved in senescence. However, whether caveolin-1 is involved in decidualization remains undefined. In this study, we examined the expression, regulation and function of Caveolin-1 during mouse early pregnancy and under mouse and human in vitro decidualization. From days 1 to 8 of pregnancy, Caveolin-1 signals are mainly located in endothelium and myometrium. Estrogen stimulates Caveolin-1 expression in endothelium. Deficiency of estrogen receptor α significantly promotes Caveolin-1 level in uterine stromal cells. Progesterone upregulates Caveolin-1 expression in luminal epithelium. During mouse in vitro decidualization, Caveolin-1 is significantly increased. However, Caveolin-1 is obviously decreased during human in vitro decidualization. Caveolin-1 overexpression and siRNA suppress and upregulate IGFBP1 expression under in vitro decidualization, respectively. Blastocysts-derived tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) and human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) regulate Caveolin-1 in mouse and human decidual cells, respectively. Caveolin-1 levels are also regulated by high glucose and insulin. In conclusion, a low level of Caveolin-1 should be beneficial for human decidualization.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3699
Number of pages20
JournalInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences
Volume23
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022 Apr 1
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Funding: This work was funded by National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC1004400] and National Natural Science Foundation of China [31871511 and 31671563].

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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Cell and Molecular Biology

Free keywords

  • Caveolin-1
  • decidualization
  • diabetes
  • embryo
  • estrogen
  • insulin
  • progesterone
  • senescence

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