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Ubiquitination is a regulatory mechanism that occurs after protein translation. To date, few studies have reported on ubiquitination during embryo implantation. We used real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction, immunohistochemistry, and Western blotting analyses to analyze the expression of speckle-type pox virus and zinc finger (POZ) protein (SPOP; an adapter of E3 ligases of ubiquitination) in mouse uteri during early pregnancy and pseudopregnancy using an artificially induced decidualization model and a steroid hormone–processing model. At the same time, we established an artificially induced decidualization in vitro model. We observed that SPOP regulates endometrial stromal cell decidualization in mice and that hormones regulate the expression of SPOP. This study suggests that ubiquitination may be involved in embryonic implantation.
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Liu, N., Liu, X., Yu, Q. et al. SPOP Regulates Endometrial Stromal Cell Decidualization in Mice. Reprod. Sci. 23, 1565–1574 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1177/1933719116648215
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