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The cytoplasmic 60 kDa progesterone receptor isoform predominates in the human amniochorion and placenta at term

BACKGROUND: The mechanism that initiates human parturition has been proposed to be 'functional progesterone withdrawal' whereby the 116 kDa B-isoform of the progesterone receptor (PR-B) switches in favour of the 94 kDa A-isoform (PR-A) in reproductive tissues. Recently, other PR isoforms,...

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Autores principales: Taylor, Anthony H, McParland, Penny C, Taylor, David J, Bell, Stephen C
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2669089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19284643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7827-7-22
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author Taylor, Anthony H
McParland, Penny C
Taylor, David J
Bell, Stephen C
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McParland, Penny C
Taylor, David J
Bell, Stephen C
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description BACKGROUND: The mechanism that initiates human parturition has been proposed to be 'functional progesterone withdrawal' whereby the 116 kDa B-isoform of the progesterone receptor (PR-B) switches in favour of the 94 kDa A-isoform (PR-A) in reproductive tissues. Recently, other PR isoforms, PR-S, PR-C and PR-M generated from the same gene have been identified and partially characterised. METHODS AND RESULTS: Using immunohistochemical, western blotting and RT-PCR techniques, evidence is provided that indicates the major PR isoform present in human term fetal membranes (amnion and chorion) and syncytiotrophoblast of the placenta is neither of the classical nuclear PR-B or PR-A isoforms but is the N-terminally truncated 60 kDa PR-C isoform. Evidence is also provided that this 60 kDa isoform resides in the cytoplasm of the expressing cell types. Data are also presented to show that PR-B, PR-A and PR-S isoforms are essentially absent from the amnion and chorion, whereas PR isoforms A, B, C and S are all present in the decidua, with PR-A being the major isoform. The syncytiotrophoblast of the placenta contains the cytoplasmic 60 kDa isoform, but not isoforms PR-A, PR-B or PR-S. CONCLUSION: The major PR isoform in the amnion, chorion and placenta is a 60 kDa protein that could be PR-C, suggesting that the cytoplasmic isoform has a specific role in extra-embryonic tissues and may be involved in the regulation of human parturition.
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spelling pubmed-26690892009-04-15 The cytoplasmic 60 kDa progesterone receptor isoform predominates in the human amniochorion and placenta at term Taylor, Anthony H McParland, Penny C Taylor, David J Bell, Stephen C Reprod Biol Endocrinol Research BACKGROUND: The mechanism that initiates human parturition has been proposed to be 'functional progesterone withdrawal' whereby the 116 kDa B-isoform of the progesterone receptor (PR-B) switches in favour of the 94 kDa A-isoform (PR-A) in reproductive tissues. Recently, other PR isoforms, PR-S, PR-C and PR-M generated from the same gene have been identified and partially characterised. METHODS AND RESULTS: Using immunohistochemical, western blotting and RT-PCR techniques, evidence is provided that indicates the major PR isoform present in human term fetal membranes (amnion and chorion) and syncytiotrophoblast of the placenta is neither of the classical nuclear PR-B or PR-A isoforms but is the N-terminally truncated 60 kDa PR-C isoform. Evidence is also provided that this 60 kDa isoform resides in the cytoplasm of the expressing cell types. Data are also presented to show that PR-B, PR-A and PR-S isoforms are essentially absent from the amnion and chorion, whereas PR isoforms A, B, C and S are all present in the decidua, with PR-A being the major isoform. The syncytiotrophoblast of the placenta contains the cytoplasmic 60 kDa isoform, but not isoforms PR-A, PR-B or PR-S. CONCLUSION: The major PR isoform in the amnion, chorion and placenta is a 60 kDa protein that could be PR-C, suggesting that the cytoplasmic isoform has a specific role in extra-embryonic tissues and may be involved in the regulation of human parturition. BioMed Central 2009-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC2669089/ /pubmed/19284643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7827-7-22 Text en Copyright © 2009 Taylor et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Taylor, Anthony H
McParland, Penny C
Taylor, David J
Bell, Stephen C
The cytoplasmic 60 kDa progesterone receptor isoform predominates in the human amniochorion and placenta at term
title The cytoplasmic 60 kDa progesterone receptor isoform predominates in the human amniochorion and placenta at term
title_full The cytoplasmic 60 kDa progesterone receptor isoform predominates in the human amniochorion and placenta at term
title_fullStr The cytoplasmic 60 kDa progesterone receptor isoform predominates in the human amniochorion and placenta at term
title_full_unstemmed The cytoplasmic 60 kDa progesterone receptor isoform predominates in the human amniochorion and placenta at term
title_short The cytoplasmic 60 kDa progesterone receptor isoform predominates in the human amniochorion and placenta at term
title_sort cytoplasmic 60 kda progesterone receptor isoform predominates in the human amniochorion and placenta at term
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2669089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19284643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7827-7-22
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