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Cassani M, Seydoux G. P-body-like condensates in the germline. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2024; 157:24-32. [PMID: 37407370 PMCID: PMC10761593 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2023.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Revised: 06/20/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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P-bodies are cytoplasmic condensates that accumulate low-translation mRNAs for temporary storage before translation or degradation. P-bodies have been best characterized in yeast and mammalian tissue culture cells. We describe here related condensates in the germline of animal models. Germline P-bodies have been reported at all stages of germline development from primordial germ cells to gametes. The activity of the universal germ cell fate regulator, Nanos, is linked to the mRNA decay function of P-bodies, and spatially-regulated condensation of P-body like condensates in embryos is required to localize mRNA regulators to primordial germ cells. In most cases, however, it is not known whether P-bodies represent functional compartments or non-functional condensation by-products that arise when ribonucleoprotein complexes saturate the cytoplasm. We speculate that the ubiquity of P-body-like condensates in germ cells reflects the strong reliance of the germline on cytoplasmic, rather than nuclear, mechanisms of gene regulation.
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- Madeline Cassani
- HHMI and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- HHMI and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Maeda N, Tsuchida J, Nishimune Y, Tanaka H. Analysis of Ser/Thr Kinase HASPIN-Interacting Proteins in the Spermatids. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23169060. [PMID: 36012324 PMCID: PMC9409403 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23169060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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HASPIN is predominantly expressed in spermatids, and plays an important role in cell division in somatic and meiotic cells through histone H3 phosphorylation. The literature published to date has suggested that HASPIN may play multiple roles in cells. Here, 10 gene products from the mouse testis cDNA library that interact with HASPIN were isolated using the two-hybrid system. Among them, CENPJ/CPAP, KPNA6/importin alpha 6, and C1QBP/HABP1 were analyzed in detail for their interactions with HASPIN, with HASPIN phosphorylated C1QBP as the substrate. The results indicated that HASPIN is involved in spermatogenesis through the phosphorylation of C1QBP in spermatids, and also may be involved in the formation of centrosomes.
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- Naoko Maeda
- Department of Science for Laboratory Animal Experimentation, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Science for Laboratory Animal Experimentation, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Science for Laboratory Animal Experimentation, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Osaka, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki International University, 2825-7 Huis Ten Bosch, Sasebo 859-3298, Nagasaki, Japan
- Correspondence: ; Tel./Fax: +81-956-20-5651
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Salemi LM, Maitland MER, McTavish CJ, Schild-Poulter C. Cell signalling pathway regulation by RanBPM: molecular insights and disease implications. Open Biol 2018; 7:rsob.170081. [PMID: 28659384 PMCID: PMC5493780 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.170081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2017] [Accepted: 06/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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RanBPM (Ran-binding protein M, also called RanBP9) is an evolutionarily conserved, ubiquitous protein which localizes to both nucleus and cytoplasm. RanBPM has been implicated in the regulation of a number of signalling pathways to regulate several cellular processes such as apoptosis, cell adhesion, migration as well as transcription, and plays a critical role during development. In addition, RanBPM has been shown to regulate pathways implicated in cancer and Alzheimer's disease, implying that RanBPM has important functions in both normal and pathological development. While its functions in these processes are still poorly understood, RanBPM has been identified as a component of a large complex, termed the CTLH (C-terminal to LisH) complex. The yeast homologue of this complex functions as an E3 ubiquitin ligase that targets enzymes of the gluconeogenesis pathway. While the CTLH complex E3 ubiquitin ligase activity and substrates still remain to be characterized, the high level of conservation between the complexes in yeast and mammals infers that the CTLH complex could also serve to promote the degradation of specific substrates through ubiquitination, therefore suggesting the possibility that RanBPM's various functions may be mediated through the activity of the CTLH complex.
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- Louisa M Salemi
- Robarts Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street North, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
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- Robarts Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street North, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
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- Robarts Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street North, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
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- Robarts Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street North, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
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Das S, Suresh B, Kim HH, Ramakrishna S. RanBPM: a potential therapeutic target for modulating diverse physiological disorders. Drug Discov Today 2017; 22:1816-1824. [PMID: 28847759 DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2017.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2017] [Revised: 06/26/2017] [Accepted: 08/21/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The Ran-binding protein microtubule-organizing center (RanBPM) is a highly conserved nucleocytoplasmic protein involved in a variety of intracellular signaling pathways that control diverse cellular functions. RanBPM interacts with proteins that are linked to various diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), schizophrenia (SCZ), and cancer. In this article, we define the characteristics of the scaffolding protein RanBPM and focus on its interaction partners in diverse physiological disorders, such as neurological diseases, fertility disorders, and cancer.
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- Soumyadip Das
- Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, South Korea
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, South Korea; Brain Korea 21 Plus Project for Medical Sciences, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, South Korea; Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, South Korea; Center for Nanomedicine, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul, 03722, South Korea.
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- Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, South Korea; College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, South Korea.
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Hong SK, Kim KH, Song EJ, Kim EE. Structural Basis for the Interaction between the IUS-SPRY Domain of RanBPM and DDX-4 in Germ Cell Development. J Mol Biol 2016; 428:4330-4344. [PMID: 27622290 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2016.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Revised: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 09/02/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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RanBPM and RanBP10 are non-canonical members of the Ran binding protein family that lack the Ran binding domain and do not associate with Ran GTPase in vivo. Rather, they have been shown to be scaffolding proteins that are important for a variety of cellular processes, and both of these proteins contain a SPRY domain, which has been implicated in mediating protein-protein interactions with a variety of targets including the DEAD-box containing ATP-dependent RNA helicase (DDX-4). In this study, we have determined the crystal structures of the SPIa and the ryanodine receptor domain and of approximately 70 upstream residues (immediate upstream to SPRY motif) of both RanBPM and RanBP10. They are almost identical, composed of a β-sandwich fold with a set of two helices on each side located at the edge of the sheets. A unique shallow binding surface is formed by highly conserved loops on the surface of the β-sheet with two aspartates on one end, a positive patch on the opposite end, and a tryptophan lining at the bottom of the surface. The 20-mer peptide (residues 228-247) of human DDX-4, an ATP-dependent RNA helicase known to regulate germ cell development, binds to this surface with a KD of ~13μM. The crystal structure of the peptide complex and the mutagenesis studies elucidate how RanBPM can recognize its interaction partners to function in gametogenesis.
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- Seung Kon Hong
- Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seongbuk-gu Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seongbuk-gu Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Molecular Recognition Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seongbuk-gu Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seongbuk-gu Hwarang-ro 14-gil 5, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea.
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Lin ZYC, Hirano T, Shibata S, Seki NM, Kitajima R, Sedohara A, Siomi MC, Sasaki E, Siomi H, Imamura M, Okano H. Gene expression ontogeny of spermatogenesis in the marmoset uncovers primate characteristics during testicular development. Dev Biol 2015; 400:43-58. [PMID: 25624265 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2015.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2014] [Revised: 01/14/2015] [Accepted: 01/16/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Mammalian spermatogenesis has been investigated extensively in rodents and a strictly controlled developmental process has been defined at cellular and molecular levels. In comparison, primate spermatogenesis has been far less well characterized. However, important differences between primate and rodent spermatogenesis are emerging so it is not always accurate to extrapolate findings in rodents to primate systems. Here, we performed an extensive immunofluorescence study of spermatogenesis in neonatal, juvenile, and adult testes in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) to determine primate-specific patterns of gene expression that underpin primate germ cell development. Initially we characterized adult spermatogonia into two main classes; mitotically active C-KIT(+)Ki67(+) cells and mitotically quiescent SALL4(+)PLZF(+)LIN28(+)DPPA4(+) cells. We then explored the expression of a set of markers, including PIWIL1/MARWI, VASA, DAZL, CLGN, RanBPM, SYCP1 and HAPRIN, during germ cell differentiation from early spermatocytes through round and elongating spermatids, and a clear program of gene expression changes was determined as development proceeded. We then examined the juvenile marmoset testis. Markers of gonocytes demonstrated two populations; one that migrates to the basal membrane where they form the SALL4(+) or C-KIT(+) spermatogonia, and another that remains in the lumen of the seminiferous tubule. This later population, historically identified as pre-spermatogonia, expressed meiotic and apoptotic markers and were eliminated because they appear to have failed to correctly migrate. Our findings provide the first platform of gene expression dynamics in adult and developing germ cells of the common marmoset. Although we have characterized a limited number of genes, these results will facilitate primate spermatogenesis research and understanding of human reproduction.
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- Zachary Yu-Ching Lin
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan; Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Molecular Biology Section, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Aichi 484-8506, Japan
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- Department of Applied Developmental Biology, Central Institute for Experimental Animals, 3-25-12 Tonomachi, Kawasaki 210-0821, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan; Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan; Department of Applied Developmental Biology, Central Institute for Experimental Animals, 3-25-12 Tonomachi, Kawasaki 210-0821, Japan; PRESTO Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan; Molecular Biology Section, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Aichi 484-8506, Japan.
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
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Bao J, Tang C, Li J, Zhang Y, Bhetwal BP, Zheng H, Yan W. RAN-binding protein 9 is involved in alternative splicing and is critical for male germ cell development and male fertility. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004825. [PMID: 25474150 PMCID: PMC4256260 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2014] [Accepted: 10/14/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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As a member of the large Ran-binding protein family, Ran-binding protein 9 (RANBP9) has been suggested to play a critical role in diverse cellular functions in somatic cell lineages in vitro, and this is further supported by the neonatal lethality phenotype in Ranbp9 global knockout mice. However, the exact molecular actions of RANBP9 remain largely unknown. By inactivation of Ranbp9 specifically in testicular somatic and spermatogenic cells, we discovered that Ranbp9 was dispensable for Sertoli cell development and functions, but critical for male germ cell development and male fertility. RIP-Seq and proteomic analyses revealed that RANBP9 was associated with multiple key splicing factors and directly targeted >2,300 mRNAs in spermatocytes and round spermatids. Many of the RANBP9 target and non-target mRNAs either displayed aberrant splicing patterns or were dysregulated in the absence of Ranbp9. Our data uncovered a novel role of Ranbp9 in regulating alternative splicing in spermatogenic cells, which is critical for normal spermatogenesis and male fertility. Male fertility depends on successful production of functional sperm. Sperm are produced through spermatogenesis, a process of male germ cell proliferation and differentiation in the testis. Most of the genes involved in spermatogenesis are transcribed and processed into multiple isoforms, which are mainly achieved through alternative splicing. The testis-specific transcriptome, characterized by male germ cell-specific alternative splicing patterns, has been shown to be essential for successful spermatogenesis. However, how these male germ cells-specific alternative splicing events are regulated remains largely unknown. Here, we report that RANBP9 is involved in alternative splicing events that are critical for male germ cell development, and dysfunction of RANBP9 leads to disrupted spermatogenesis and compromised male fertility.
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- Jianqiang Bao
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
- * E-mail:
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Kashani IR, Zarnani AH, Soleimani M, Abdolvahabi MA, Nayernia K, Shirazi R. Retinoic acid induces mouse bone marrow-derived CD15⁺, Oct4⁺ and CXCR4⁺ stem cells into male germ-like cells in a two-dimensional cell culture system. Cell Biol Int 2014; 38:782-9. [PMID: 24677291 DOI: 10.1002/cbin.10260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2013] [Accepted: 01/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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We have examined the effect of retinoic acid (RA) on differentiation of bone marrow-derived CD15(+) , Oct4(+) and CXCR4(+) cells into male germ cells. Bone marrow stem cells (BMSCs) were isolated from the femur of 3-4-week-old male C57BL/6 mice. Magnetic-activated cell sorting (MACS) system was used to sort CD15(+) , Oct4(+) and CXCR4(+) cells. RT-PCR was used to follow the expression of pluripotency markers. Sorted CD15(+) , Oct4(+) and CXCR4(+) cells were cultured in an undifferentiated condition on a feeder layer of mitomycin C-inactivated C2C12. The embryoid-like bodies were differentiated into male germ cells by retinoic acid. To identify the expression of male germ specific markers, differentiated cells were analysed by means of reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and immunofluorescence staining. RT-PCR and immunofluorescence show that bone marrow-derived CD15(+) , Oct4(+) and CXCR4(+) cells express pluripotency markers, Oct4, Nanog, Rex-1, SOX-2 and AP. The purified CD15(+) , Oct4(+) and CXCR4(+) formed structures like embryoid bodies when plated over a feeder layer; these bodies were alkaline phosphatase positive. When cells were induced by RA, bone marrow-derived CD15(+) , Oct4(+) and CXCR4(+) were positive for Mvh, Dazl, Piwil2, Dppa3 and Stra8, that known molecular markers of male germ cells. Thus RA can induce differentiation of mouse bone marrow-derived CD15(+) , Oct4(+) and CXCR4(+) cells into male germ cells in vitro. Negative results for the gene expression analysis of female germ cells markers, GDF9 and ZP3, confirmed this conclusion.
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- Iraj Ragerdi Kashani
- Department of Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Li L, Wang J, Zhang Z, Wang Y, Liu M, Jiang H, Chai R, Mao X, Qiu H, Liu F, Sun G. MoPex19, which is essential for maintenance of peroxisomal structure and woronin bodies, is required for metabolism and development in the rice blast fungus. PLoS One 2014; 9:e85252. [PMID: 24454828 PMCID: PMC3891873 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2013] [Accepted: 11/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Peroxisomes are present ubiquitously and make important contributions to cellular metabolism in eukaryotes. They play crucial roles in pathogenicity of plant fungal pathogens. The peroxisomal matrix proteins and peroxisomal membrane proteins (PMPs) are synthesized in the cytosol and imported post-translationally. Although the peroxisomal import machineries are generally conserved, some species-specific features were found in different types of organisms. In phytopathogenic fungi, the pathways of the matrix proteins have been elucidated, while the import machinery of PMPs remains obscure. Here, we report that MoPEX19, an ortholog of ScPEX19, was required for PMPs import and peroxisomal maintenance, and played crucial roles in metabolism and pathogenicity of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. MoPEX19 was expressed in a low level and Mopex19p was distributed in the cytoplasm and newly formed peroxisomes. MoPEX19 deletion led to mislocalization of peroxisomal membrane proteins (PMPs), as well peroxisomal matrix proteins. Peroxisomal structures were totally absent in Δmopex19 mutants and woronin bodies also vanished. Δmopex19 exhibited metabolic deficiency typical in peroxisomal disorders and also abnormality in glyoxylate cycle which was undetected in the known mopex mutants. The Δmopex19 mutants performed multiple disorders in fungal development and pathogenicity-related morphogenesis, and lost completely the pathogenicity on its hosts. These data demonstrate that MoPEX19 plays crucial roles in maintenance of peroxisomal and peroxisome-derived structures and makes more contributions to fungal development and pathogenicity than the known MoPEX genes in the rice blast fungus.
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- Ling Li
- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- * E-mail: (FL); (GS)
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
- * E-mail: (FL); (GS)
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RanBPM is a multimodular scaffold protein that interacts with a great variety of molecules including nuclear, cytoplasmic, and membrane proteins. By building multiprotein complexes, RanBPM is thought to regulate various signaling pathways, especially in the immune and nervous system. However, the diversity of these interactions does not facilitate the identification of its precise mechanism of action, and therefore the physiological role of RanBPM still remains unclear. Recently, RanBPM has been shown to be critical for the fertility of both genders in mouse. Although mechanistically it is still unclear how RanBPM affects gametogenesis, the data collected so far suggest that it is a key player in this process. Here, we examine the RanBPM sterility phenotype in the context of other genetic mutations affecting mouse gametogenesis to investigate whether this scaffold protein affects the function of other known proteins whose deficiency results in similar sterility phenotypes.
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- Sandrine Puverel
- Neural Development Section, Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
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Schisa JA. New insights into the regulation of RNP granule assembly in oocytes. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2012; 295:233-89. [PMID: 22449492 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-394306-4.00013-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In a variety of cell types in plants, animals, and fungi, ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes play critical roles in regulating RNA metabolism. These RNP granules include processing bodies and stress granules that are found broadly across cell types, as well as RNP granules unique to the germline, such as P granules, polar granules, sponge bodies, and germinal granules. This review focuses on RNP granules localized in oocytes of the major model systems, Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila, Xenopus, mouse, and zebrafish. The signature families of proteins within oocyte RNPs include Vasa and other RNA-binding proteins, decapping activators and enzymes, Argonaute family proteins, and translation initiation complex proteins. This review describes the many recent insights into the dynamics and functions of RNP granules, including their roles in mRNA degradation, mRNA localization, translational regulation, and fertility. The roles of the cytoskeleton and cell organelles in regulating RNP granule assembly are also discussed.
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- Jennifer A Schisa
- Department of Biology, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA
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"Germ granules" are cytoplasmic, nonmembrane-bound organelles unique to germline. Germ granules share components with the P bodies and stress granules of somatic cells, but also contain proteins and RNAs uniquely required for germ cell development. In this review, we focus on recent advances in our understanding of germ granule assembly, dynamics, and function. One hypothesis is that germ granules operate as hubs for the posttranscriptional control of gene expression, a function at the core of the germ cell differentiation program.
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- Ekaterina Voronina
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Cell Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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Onohara Y, Yokota S. Expression of DDX25 in nuage components of mammalian spermatogenic cells: immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopic study. Histochem Cell Biol 2011; 137:37-51. [PMID: 22038044 DOI: 10.1007/s00418-011-0875-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/13/2011] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The localization of DDX25/GRTH and gonadotropin-stimulated RNA helicase was studied in the spermatogenic cells of rat, mouse, and guinea pig by immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy (IEM). Immunofluorescence studies identified four kinds of granular staining: (1) fine particles observed in meiotic cells; (2) small granules associated with a mitochondrial marker, appearing in pachytene spermatocytes after stage V; (3) short strands lacking the mitochondrial marker in late spermatocytes; and, (4) large irregularly shaped granules in round spermatids. IEM identified DDX25 signals in nine compartments: (1) fine dense particles in the meiotic cells; (2) intermitochondrial cement; (3) loose aggregates of 70-90 nm particles; (4) chromatoid bodies; (5) late chromatoid bodies; (6) satellite bodies; (7) granulated bodies; (8) mitochondria-associated granules; and, (9) reticulated bodies. Compartments (1) to (6) were previously classified into nuage while (7) to (9) were classified as nuage components by the present study. The results suggest that DDX25 functions in these nine compartments.
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- Yuko Onohara
- Section of Functional Morphology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki International University, Huis Ten Bosch 2825-7, Nagasaki, Sasebo 859-3298, Japan
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Mota PC, Ehmcke J, Westernströer B, Gassei K, Ramalho-Santos J, Schlatt S. Effects of different storage protocols on cat testis tissue potential for xenografting and recovery of spermatogenesis. Theriogenology 2011; 77:299-310. [PMID: 21958640 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2011.07.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2011] [Revised: 07/12/2011] [Accepted: 07/30/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The loss of genetic diversity due to premature death of valuable individuals is a significant problem in animal conservation programs, including endangered felids. Testis tissue xenografting has emerged as a system to obtain spermatozoa from dead immature animals, however protocols to store this tissue before xenografting are still lacking. This study focused on testis tissue cryopreservation and storage from the domestic cat (Felis catus) classified as "pre-pubertal" and "pubertal" according to spermatogenesis development. Grafts from testis tissue cryopreserved with DMSO 1.4M, recovered after 10 weeks xenografting, presented seminiferous tubules with no germ cells. On the contrary, testis tissue from pre-pubertal animals preserved in ice-cold medium for 2 to 5 days presented no loss of viability or spermatogenic potential, while the number of grafts of pubertal cat testis tissue with germ cells after 10 weeks of xenografting decreased with increasing storage time. Nevertheless, even grafts from pre-pubertal cat testis tissue presented lower anti-DDX4 and anti-BOULE staining (proteins necessary for the meiosis completion), when compared with adult cat testis. Finally, a strong correlation found between testis weight and xenograft outcome may help choose good candidates for xenografting.
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- Paula C Mota
- Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Puverel S, Barrick C, Dolci S, Coppola V, Tessarollo L. RanBPM is essential for mouse spermatogenesis and oogenesis. Development 2011; 138:2511-21. [PMID: 21561988 DOI: 10.1242/dev.062505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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RanBPM is a recently identified scaffold protein that links and modulates interactions between cell surface receptors and their intracellular signaling pathways. RanBPM has been shown to interact with a variety of functionally unrelated proteins; however, its function remains unclear. Here, we show that RanBPM is essential for normal gonad development as both male and female RanBPM(-/-) mice are sterile. In the mutant testis there was a marked decrease in spermatogonia proliferation during postnatal development. Strikingly, the first wave of spermatogenesis was totally compromised, as seminiferous tubules of homozygous mutant animals were devoid of post-meiotic germ cells. We determined that spermatogenesis was arrested around the late pachytene-diplotene stages of prophase I; surprisingly, without any obvious defect in chromosome synapsis. Interestingly, RanBPM deletion led to a remarkably quick disappearance of all germ cell types at around one month of age, suggesting that spermatogonia stem cells are also affected by the mutation. Moreover, in chimeric mice generated with RanBPM(-/-) embryonic stem cells all mutant germ cells disappeared by 3 weeks of age suggesting that RanBPM is acting in a cell-autonomous way in germ cells. RanBPM homozygous mutant females displayed a premature ovarian failure due to a depletion of the germ cell pool at the end of prophase I, as in males. Taken together, our results highlight a crucial role for RanBPM in mammalian gametogenesis in both genders.
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- Sandrine Puverel
- Neural Development Section, Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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Major AT, Whiley PAF, Loveland KL. Expression of nucleocytoplasmic transport machinery: clues to regulation of spermatogenic development. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2011; 1813:1668-88. [PMID: 21420444 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2011.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2010] [Revised: 02/22/2011] [Accepted: 03/11/2011] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Spermatogenesis is one example of a developmental process which requires tight control of gene expression to achieve normal growth and sustain function. This review is based on the principle that events in spermatogenesis are controlled by changes in the distribution of proteins between the nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments. Through analysis of the regulated production of nucleocytoplasmic transport machinery in mammalian spermatogenesis, this review addresses the concept that access to the nucleus is tightly controlled to enable and prevent differentiation. A broad review of nuclear transport components is presented, outlining the different categories of machinery required for import, export and non-nuclear functions. In addition, the complexity of nomenclature is addressed by the provision of a concise yet comprehensive listing of information that will aid in comparative studies of different transport proteins and the genes which encode them. We review a suite of existing transcriptional analyses which identify common and distinct patterns of transport machinery expression, showing how these can be linked with key events in spermatogenic development. The additional importance of this for human fertility is considered, in light of data that identify which importin and nuclear transport machinery components are present in testicular cancer specimens, while also providing an indication of how their presence (and absence) may be considered as potential mediators of oncogenesis. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Regulation of Signaling and Cellular Fate through Modulation of Nuclear Protein Import.
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- Andrew T Major
- Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash University, Australia
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Hermo L, Pelletier RM, Cyr DG, Smith CE. Surfing the wave, cycle, life history, and genes/proteins expressed by testicular germ cells. Part 2: changes in spermatid organelles associated with development of spermatozoa. Microsc Res Tech 2010; 73:279-319. [PMID: 19941292 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Spermiogenesis is a long process whereby haploid spermatids derived from the meiotic divisions of spermatocytes undergo metamorphosis into spermatozoa. It is subdivided into distinct steps with 19 being identified in rats, 16 in mouse and 8 in humans. Spermiogenesis extends over 22.7 days in rats and 21.6 days in humans. In this part, we review several key events that take place during the development of spermatids from a structural and functional point of view. During early spermiogenesis, the Golgi apparatus forms the acrosome, a lysosome-like membrane bound organelle involved in fertilization. The endoplasmic reticulum undergoes several topographical and structural modifications including the formation of the radial body and annulate lamellae. The chromatoid body is fully developed and undergoes structural and functional modifications at this time. It is suspected to be involved in RNA storing and processing. The shape of the spermatid head undergoes extensive structural changes that are species-specific, and the nuclear chromatin becomes compacted to accommodate the stream-lined appearance of the sperm head. Microtubules become organized to form a curtain or manchette that associates with spermatids at specific steps of their development. It is involved in maintenance of the sperm head shape and trafficking of proteins in the spermatid cytoplasm. During spermiogenesis, many genes/proteins have been implicated in the diverse dynamic events occurring at this time of development of germ cells and the absence of some of these have been shown to result in subfertility or infertility.
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- Louis Hermo
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B2.
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Gustafson EA, Wessel GM. DEAD-box helicases: posttranslational regulation and function. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2010; 395:1-6. [PMID: 20206133 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.02.172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2010] [Accepted: 02/26/2010] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Eric A Gustafson
- Providence Institute of Molecular Oogenesis, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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Ma L, Buchold GM, Greenbaum MP, Roy A, Burns KH, Zhu H, Han DY, Harris RA, Coarfa C, Gunaratne PH, Yan W, Matzuk MM. GASZ is essential for male meiosis and suppression of retrotransposon expression in the male germline. PLoS Genet 2009; 5:e1000635. [PMID: 19730684 PMCID: PMC2727916 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2009] [Accepted: 08/06/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Nuage are amorphous ultrastructural granules in the cytoplasm of male germ cells as divergent as Drosophila, Xenopus, and Homo sapiens. Most nuage are cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein structures implicated in diverse RNA metabolism including the regulation of PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA) synthesis by the PIWI family (i.e., MILI, MIWI2, and MIWI). MILI is prominent in embryonic and early post-natal germ cells in nuage also called germinal granules that are often associated with mitochondria and called intermitochondrial cement. We find that GASZ (Germ cell protein with Ankyrin repeats, Sterile alpha motif, and leucine Zipper) co-localizes with MILI in intermitochondrial cement. Knockout of Gasz in mice results in a dramatic downregulation of MILI, and phenocopies the zygotene-pachytene spermatocyte block and male sterility defect observed in MILI null mice. In Gasz null testes, we observe increased hypomethylation and expression of retrotransposons similar to MILI null testes. We also find global shifts in the small RNAome, including down-regulation of repeat-associated, known, and novel piRNAs. These studies provide the first evidence for an essential structural role for GASZ in male fertility and epigenetic and post-transcriptional silencing of retrotransposons by stabilizing MILI in nuage.
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- Lang Ma
- Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Dansereau DA, Lasko P. RanBPM regulates cell shape, arrangement, and capacity of the female germline stem cell niche in Drosophila melanogaster. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 182:963-77. [PMID: 18762575 PMCID: PMC2528568 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200711046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Experiments in cultured cells with Ran-binding protein M (RanBPM) suggest that it links cell surface receptors and cell adhesion proteins. In this study, we undertake a genetic study of RanBPM function in the germline stem cell (GSC) niche of Drosophila melanogaster ovaries. We find that two RanBPM isoforms are produced from alternatively spliced transcripts, the longer of which is specifically enriched in the GSC niche, a cluster of somatic cells that physically anchors GSCs and expresses signals that maintain GSC fate. Loss of the long isoform from the niche causes defects in niche organization and cell size and increases the number of GSCs attached to the niche. In genetic mosaics for a null RanBPM allele, we find a strong bias for GSC attachment to mutant cap cells and observe abnormal accumulation of the adherens junction component Armadillo (beta-catenin) and the membrane skeletal protein Hu-li tai shao in mutant terminal filament cells. These results implicate RanBPM in the regulation of niche capacity and adhesion.
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Yokota S. Historical survey on chromatoid body research. Acta Histochem Cytochem 2008; 41:65-82. [PMID: 18787638 PMCID: PMC2532602 DOI: 10.1267/ahc.08010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2008] [Accepted: 05/14/2008] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The chromatoid body (CB) is a male reproductive cell-specific organelle that appears in spermatocytes and spermatids. The cytoplasmic granule corresponding to the CB was first discovered some 130 years ago by von Brunn in 1876. Thirty years later the German term "chromatoide Körper" (chromatoid body) was introduced to describe this granule and is still used today. In this review, first, the results obtained by light microscopic studies on the CB for the first 60 years are examined. Next, many findings revealed by electron microscopic studies are reviewed. Finally, recent molecular cell biological studies concerning the CB are discussed. The conclusion obtained by exploring the papers on CB published during the past 130 years is that many of the modern molecular cell biological studies are undoubtedly based on information accumulated by vast amounts of early studies.
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- Sadaki Yokota
- Section of Functional Morphology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Nagasaki International University, Sasebo, Nagasaki 859-3298, Japan.
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Sadakata T, Washida M, Iwayama Y, Shoji S, Sato Y, Ohkura T, Katoh-Semba R, Nakajima M, Sekine Y, Tanaka M, Nakamura K, Iwata Y, Tsuchiya KJ, Mori N, Detera-Wadleigh SD, Ichikawa H, Itohara S, Yoshikawa T, Furuichi T. Autistic-like phenotypes in Cadps2-knockout mice and aberrant CADPS2 splicing in autistic patients. J Clin Invest 2007; 117:931-43. [PMID: 17380209 PMCID: PMC1821065 DOI: 10.1172/jci29031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2006] [Accepted: 01/16/2007] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Autism, characterized by profound impairment in social interactions and communicative skills, is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder, and its underlying molecular mechanisms remain unknown. Ca(2+)-dependent activator protein for secretion 2 (CADPS2; also known as CAPS2) mediates the exocytosis of dense-core vesicles, and the human CADPS2 is located within the autism susceptibility locus 1 on chromosome 7q. Here we show that Cadps2-knockout mice not only have impaired brain-derived neurotrophic factor release but also show autistic-like cellular and behavioral phenotypes. Moreover, we found an aberrant alternatively spliced CADPS2 mRNA that lacks exon 3 in some autistic patients. Exon 3 was shown to encode the dynactin 1-binding domain and affect axonal CADPS2 protein distribution. Our results suggest that a disturbance in CADPS2-mediated neurotrophin release contributes to autism susceptibility.
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- Tetsushi Sadakata
- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Molecular Neurogenesis and Laboratory
for Molecular Psychiatry, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Department of Perinatology, Institute for Developmental Research,
Aichi Human Service Center, Kasugai, Japan. Research Resource
Center, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Department of
Psychiatry and Neurology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental
Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Laboratory for Behavioral Genetics,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
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Marracci S, Casola C, Bucci S, Ragghianti M, Ogielska M, Mancino G. Differential expression of two vasa/PL10-related genes during gametogenesis in the special model system Rana. Dev Genes Evol 2007; 217:395-402. [PMID: 17333258 DOI: 10.1007/s00427-007-0143-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2006] [Accepted: 02/16/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Germline cell fate decisions are primarily controlled at the post-transcriptional level with DEAD-box RNA helicases playing a crucial role in germline development. In this study, we report the identification of two DEAD-box vasa/PL10 orthologues (RlVlg and RlPL10) in a species complex of the genus Rana, characterized by hybridogenetic reproduction, an enigmatic process that involves the exclusion of an individual genome, and endoreduplication events. Both genes were expressed during the early stages of gametogenesis of R. ridibunda, R. lessonae, and their natural hybrid R. esculenta. RlVlg expression was germline specific. On the other hand, RlPL10 was also expressed in somatic tissues, although only at low levels. The two genes were expressed in different phases of mitotic and meiotic spermatogenetic divisions as demonstrated by immunostaining with an anti-H3 phosphohistone antibody. The data indicate that RlVlg and RlPL10 may represent useful markers for dissecting the molecular aspects of genome exclusion and endoreduplication of the hybridogenetic gametogenesis.
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- Silvia Marracci
- Laboratorio di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Pisa, Via Carducci 13, 56010 Ghezzano, Pisa, Italy,
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Kotaja N, Sassone-Corsi P. The chromatoid body: a germ-cell-specific RNA-processing centre. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2007; 8:85-90. [PMID: 17183363 DOI: 10.1038/nrm2081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The chromatoid body, a unique cloud-like structure of male germ cells, moves dynamically in the cytoplasm of haploid spermatids, but its function has remained elusive for decades. Recent findings indicate that microRNA and RNA-decay pathways converge to the chromatoid body. This highly specialized structure might function as an intracellular focal domain that organizes and controls RNA processing in male germ cells.
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- Noora Kotaja
- Department of Physiology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Kiinamyllynkatu 10, 20520 Turku, Finland
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Kitamura E, Igarashi J, Morohashi A, Hida N, Oinuma T, Nemoto N, Song F, Ghosh S, Held WA, Yoshida-Noro C, Nagase H. Analysis of tissue-specific differentially methylated regions (TDMs) in humans. Genomics 2006; 89:326-37. [PMID: 17188838 PMCID: PMC1847344 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2006.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2006] [Revised: 10/26/2006] [Accepted: 11/06/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Alterations in DNA methylation have been implicated in mammalian development. Hence, the identification of tissue-specific differentially methylated regions (TDMs) is indispensable for understanding its role. Using restriction landmark genomic scanning of six mouse tissues, 150 putative TDMs were identified and 14 were further analyzed. The DNA sequences of the 14 mouse TDMs are analyzed in this study. Six of the human homologous regions show TDMs to both mouse and human and genes in five of these regions have conserved tissue-specific expression: preferential expression in testis. A TDM, DDX4, is further analyzed in nine testis tissues. An increase in methylation of the promoter region is significantly associated with a marked reduction of the gene expression and defects in spermatogenesis, suggesting that hypomethylation of the DDX4 promoter region regulates DDX4 gene expression in spermatogenic cells. Our results indicate that some genomic regions with tissue-specific methylation and expression are conserved between mouse and human and suggest that DNA methylation may have an important role in regulating differentiation and tissue-/cell-specific gene expression of some genes.
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- Eiko Kitamura
- Life Science, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities, University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan
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- Life Science, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities, University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan
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- Life Science, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities, University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan
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- Life Science, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities, University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263
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- Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263
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- Life Science, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities, University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan
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- Life Science, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities, University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan
- Cancer Genetics, Nihon, University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610, Japan
- Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263
- *Corresponding author. Life Science, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities, Cancer Genetics, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi, Kami-cho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8610. Tel/Fax: +81-3-3972-8337. E-mail address: (H. Nagase)
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Yuan Y, Fu C, Chen H, Wang X, Deng W, Huang BR. The Ran binding protein RanBPM interacts with TrkA receptor. Neurosci Lett 2006; 407:26-31. [PMID: 16959415 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.06.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2006] [Revised: 06/20/2006] [Accepted: 06/28/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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RanBPM as a novel binding protein can interact with neurotrophin receptor p75NTR and tyrosine kinase receptor Met which has a similar tyrosine kinase structure as receptor TrkA has. Whether RanBPM interacts with neurotrophin receptor TrkA has not been established to date. In this study, using yeast two-hybrid system, it was identified that RanBPM bound to the intracellular domain (ICD) of neurotrophin receptor TrkA through its SPRY motif. We confirmed the formation of complexes between RanBPM and TrkA by co-immunoprecipitation studies and GST pull-down assays. The region of TrkA interacted with the SPRY domain of RanBPM was located in its tyrosine kinase domain. Furthermore, coimmunoprecipitaiton revealed endogenous RanBPM and receptors TrkA did interact in several mammalian cell lines. It was found that the overexpression of RanBPM could inhibit NGF-induced increase of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) dependent luciferase expression through its interaction with receptor TrkA, and NFAT transcriptional activity plays an important role in neuronal signal transduction. These data suggested that RanBPM could participate in neurotrophin-mediated gene transcription and expression by its binding to TrkA.
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- Yuhe Yuan
- National Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
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Sheng Y, Tsai-Morris CH, Gutti R, Maeda Y, Dufau ML. Gonadotropin-regulated testicular RNA helicase (GRTH/Ddx25) is a transport protein involved in gene-specific mRNA export and protein translation during spermatogenesis. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:35048-56. [PMID: 16968703 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m605086200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Gonadotropin-regulated testicular RNA helicase (GRTH/Ddx25), a member of the DEAD-box protein family, is essential for completion of spermatogenesis. GRTH is present in the cytoplasm and nucleus of meiotic spermatocytes and round spermatids and functions as a component of mRNP particles, implicating its post-transcriptional regulatory roles in germ cells. In this study, GRTH antibodies specific to N- or C-terminal sequences showed differential subcellular expression of GRTH 56- and 61-kDa species in nucleus and cytoplasm, respectively, of rodent testis and transfected COS1 cells. The 56-kDa nuclear species interacted with CRM1 and participated in mRNA transport. The phosphorylated cytoplasmic 61-kDa species was associated with polyribosomes. Confocal studies on COS-1 cells showed that GRTH-GFP was retained in the nucleus by treatment with a RNA polymerase inhibitor or the nuclear protein export inhibitor. This indicated that GRTH is a shuttling protein associated with RNA export. The N-terminal leucine-rich region (61-74 amino acids) was identified as the nuclear export signal that participated in CRM1-dependent nuclear export pathway. Deletion analysis identified a 14-amino acid GRTH sequence (100-114 amino acids) as a nuclear localization signal. GRTH selectively regulated the translation of specific genes including histone 4 and HMG2 in germ cells. In addition, GRTH participated in the nuclear export of RNA messages (PGK2, tACE, and TP2) in a gene-specific manner. These studies strongly indicate that the mammalian GRTH/Ddx25 gene is a multifunctional RNA helicase that is an essential regulator of sperm maturation.
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- Yi Sheng
- Section on Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrinology and Reproduction Research Branch, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4510, USA
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Costa Y, Speed RM, Gautier P, Semple CA, Maratou K, Turner JMA, Cooke HJ. Mouse MAELSTROM: the link between meiotic silencing of unsynapsed chromatin and microRNA pathway? Hum Mol Genet 2006; 15:2324-34. [PMID: 16787967 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Meiotic silencing of unsynapsed chromatin (MSUC) is a key mechanism in spermatogenesis and a model system to study the dynamics of gene silencing. Here we show that MAEL, the ortholog of Drosophila's high mobility group box protein Maelstrom, is associated not only with the silenced XY body, but also with unsynapsed autosomes. Characterization of MAEL revealed that it interacts directly with the chromatin remodeler SNF5/INI1 and chromatin-associated protein SIN3B, which we also find localized to the XY body. This is the first time that a chromatin remodeler has been shown to associate with whole chromosomes. In addition, we show that MAEL is a component of the mouse meiotic nuage and its haploid cell counterpart, the chromatoid body. This is a site of accumulation of RNA and RNA processing enzymes, including proteins involved in the microRNA (miRNA) pathway. Furthermore, in the nuage, MAEL is present in a complex with germ cell specific MVH, an RNA helicase and Argonaute family members, MILI and MIWI. The presence of MAEL in these critical compartments of male germ cells and its interactions provide a link suggesting the involvement of the miRNA pathway in MSUC.
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- Yael Costa
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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A group of scientists from Harvard Medical School (Johnson et al., 2004) claims to have "established the existence of proliferative germ cells that sustain oocyte and follicle production in the postnatal mammalian ovary," expressing no doubts about their methods, results and conclusion. Johnson et al. based their conclusions of oocyte and follicular renewal from existing germline stem cells (GSC) in the postnatal mouse ovary on three types of observations: (1) A claimed discordance in follicle loss versus follicle atresia in the neonatal period and in the following pubertal and adult period; (2) immunohistochemical detection of proliferating GSC with meiotic capacity using combined markers for meiosis, germline, and mitosis; and (3) neo-folliculogenesis in ovarian chimeric grafting experiments with adult mice. Oogenesis is the process that transforms the proliferative oogonium into an oocyte through meiosis, followed by folliculogenesis and follicular and oocyte maturation. The most crucial part in producing a functional oocyte is firstly, initiation and completion of the first meiotic prophase, and secondly, enclosure of the resulting diplotene oocyte in a follicle. Neither of these two events has been shown to take place in Johnson et al.'s study of the postnatal mouse ovary. We hereby address the observations underpinning their hypothesis and conclude that it is premature to replace the paradigm that adult mammalian neo-oogenesis/folliculogenesis does not take place.
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- Anne Grete Byskov
- Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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All germ cells throughout the animal kingdom contain cytoplasmic cloud-like accumulations of material called nuage. Polar bodies in Drosophila oocytes are probably the best known forms of nuage. In spermatogenic cells, the nuage is called chromatoid body (CB). In early spermatids of the rat, it has a diameter of 1-1.5 microm and a finely filamentous lobular structure. Typically, it is associated with a multitude of vesicles. It is first clearly seen in mid- and late pachytene spermatocytes as an intermitochondrial dense material. During early spermiogenesis it is seen near the Golgi complex and frequently connected by material continuities through nuclear pore complexes with intranuclear particles. In living cells, the CB moves around the Golgi complex and has frequent contacts with it. The CB also moves perpendicularly to the nuclear envelope, and even through cytoplasmic bridges to the neighbour spermatids. One of the major components of the CB is a DEAD-box RNA helicase VASA that belongs to a class of proteins thought to act as RNA chaperones. It is a general marker of all germ cells and best characterized in Drosophila. The mouse VASA homologue was recently used as a marker of sperm formation from embryonic stem cells. It becomes generally accepted that the CB with its associated structures constitute a mechanism of post-transcriptional processing and storage of several mRNA species that are shared between neighbour cells and used for translation when the genome of the spermatids becomes inactive.
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- Martti Parvinen
- Department of Anatomy, University of Turku, FIN-20520 Turku, Finland.
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Abdelhaleem M. RNA helicases: regulators of differentiation. Clin Biochem 2005; 38:499-503. [PMID: 15885226 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2005.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2004] [Revised: 01/04/2005] [Accepted: 01/17/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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RNA helicases are highly conserved enzymes that utilize the energy derived from NTP hydrolysis to modulate the structure of RNA. RNA helicases participate in all biological processes that involve RNA, including transcription, splicing and translation. Based on the sequence of the helicase domain, they are classified into families, such as DDX and DHX families of human RNA helicases. The specificity of RNA helicases to their targets is likely due to several factors, such as the sequence, interacting molecules, subcellular localization and the expression pattern of the helicases. There are several examples of the involvement of RNA helicases in differentiation. Human DDX3 has two closely related genes designated DDX3Y and DDX3X, which are localized to the Y and X chromosomes, respectively. DDX3Y protein is specifically expressed in germ cells and is essential for spermatogenesis. DDX25 is another RNA helicase which has been shown to be required for spermatogenesis. DDX4 shows specific expression in germ cells. The Drosophila ortholog of DDX4, known as vasa, is required for the formation of germ cells and oogenesis by a mechanism that involves regulating the translation of mRNAs essential for differentiation. Abstrakt is the Drosphila ortholog of DDX41, which has been shown to be involved in visual and CNS system development. DDX5 (p68) and its related DDX17 (p72) have also been implicated in organ/tissue differentiation. The ability of RNA helicases to modulate the structure and thus availability of critical RNA molecules for processing leading to protein expression is the likely mechanism by which RNA helicases contribute to differentiation.
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- Mohamed Abdelhaleem
- Division of Haematopathology, Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Room 3691 Atrium, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8.
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Chuong SDX, Good AG, Taylor GJ, Freeman MC, Moorhead GBG, Muench DG. Large-scale identification of tubulin-binding proteins provides insight on subcellular trafficking, metabolic channeling, and signaling in plant cells. Mol Cell Proteomics 2004; 3:970-83. [PMID: 15249590 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m400053-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Microtubules play an essential role in the growth and development of plants and are known to be involved in regulating many cellular processes ranging from translation to signaling. In this article, we describe the proteomic characterization of Arabidopsis tubulin-binding proteins that were purified using tubulin affinity chromatography. Microtubule co-sedimentation assays indicated that most, if not all, of the proteins in the tubulin-binding protein fraction possessed microtubule-binding activity. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of the tubulin-binding protein fraction was performed, and 86 protein spots were excised and analyzed for protein identification. A total of 122 proteins were identified with high confidence using LC-MS/MS. These proteins were grouped into six categories based on their predicted functions: microtubule-associated proteins, translation factors, RNA-binding proteins, signaling proteins, metabolic enzymes, and proteins with other functions. Almost one-half of the proteins identified in this fraction were related to proteins that have previously been reported to interact with microtubules. This study represents the first large-scale proteomic identification of eukaryotic cytoskeleton-binding proteins, and provides insight on subcellular trafficking, metabolic channeling, and signaling in plant cells.
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- Simon D X Chuong
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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