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Ing NH, Konganti K, Ghaffar N, Johnson CD, Forrest DW, Love CC, Varner DD. Specific microRNAs in stallion spermatozoa are potential biomarkers of high functionality. Reprod Domest Anim 2024; 59:e14674. [PMID: 39005151 DOI: 10.1111/rda.14674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2024] [Revised: 06/12/2024] [Accepted: 07/03/2024] [Indexed: 07/16/2024]
Abstract
Males of some species, from horses to humans, require medical help for subfertility problems. There is an urgent need for novel molecular assays that reflect spermatozoal function. In the last 25 years, studies examined RNAs in spermatozoa as a window into gene expression during their development and, more recently, for their functions in early embryo development. In clinics, more dense spermatozoa are isolated by density gradient centrifugation before use in artificial insemination to increase pregnancy rates. The objectives of the current study were to discover and quantify the microRNAs in stallion spermatozoa and identify those with differential expression levels in more dense versus less dense spermatozoa. First, spermatozoa from seven stallions were separated into more dense and less dense populations by density gradient centrifugation. Next, small RNAs were sequenced from each of the 14 RNA samples. We identified 287 different mature microRNAs within the 11,824,720 total mature miRNA reads from stallion spermatozoa. The most prevalent was miR-10a/b-5p. The less dense spermatozoa had fewer mature microRNAs and more microRNA precursor sequences than more dense spermatozoa, perhaps indicating that less dense spermatozoa are less mature. Two of the most prevalent microRNAs in more dense stallion spermatozoa were predicted to target mRNAs that encode proteins that accelerate mRNA decay. Nine microRNAs were more highly expressed in more dense spermatozoa. Three of those microRNAs were predicted to target mRNAs that encode proteins involved in protein decay. Both mRNA and protein decay are very active in late spermiogenesis but not in mature spermatozoa. The identified microRNAs may be part of the mechanism to shut down those processes. The microRNAs with greater expression in more dense spermatozoa may be useful biomarkers for spermatozoa with greater functional capabilities.
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- Nancy H Ing
- Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Texas A&M Institute for Genome Sciences and Society, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Texas A&M Institute for Genome Sciences and Society, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- AgriLife Genomics and Bioinformatics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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Tiwari S, Shahat A, Kastelic J, Thakor N, Thundathil J. Optimized total RNA isolation from bovine sperm with enhanced sperm head lysis. Biochem Cell Biol 2024; 102:194-205. [PMID: 37948675 DOI: 10.1139/bcb-2023-0231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Increasing evidence of sperm RNA's role in fertilization and embryonic development has provided impetus for its isolation and thorough characterization. Sperm are considered tough-to-lyse cells due to the compact condensed DNA in sperm heads. Lack of consensus among bovine sperm RNA isolation protocols introduces experimental variability in transcriptome studies. Here, we describe an optimized method for total RNA isolation from bovine sperm using the TRIzol reagent. This study critically investigated the effects of various lysis conditions on sperm RNA isolation. Sperm suspended in TRIzol were subjected to a combination of mechanical treatments (sonication and passage through a 30G needle and syringe) and chemical treatments (supplementation with reducing agents 1,4-dithiothreitol and tris(2-carboxyethyl) phosphine hydrochloride (TCEP)). Microscopic evaluation of sperm lysis confirmed preferential sperm tail versus sperm head lysis. Interestingly, only TCEP-supplemented TRIzol (both mechanical treatments) had progressive sperm head lysis and consistently yielded total sperm RNA. Furthermore, RNA integrity was confirmed based on the electrophoresis profile and an absence of genomic DNA and somatic cells (e.g., epithelial cells, spermatids, etc.) with RT-qPCR. Our findings highlighted the importance of sperm lysis, specifically of the sperm head using TCEP with mechanical treatment, in total RNA isolation and presented a bovine-specific sperm RNA isolation method to reduce experimental variabilities.
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- Saurabh Tiwari
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Department of Theriogenology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, AB, Canada
- Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre (SAGSC), University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Southern Alberta Genome Sciences Centre (SAGSC), University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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Joshi M, Andrabi SW, Yadav RK, Sankhwar SN, Gupta G, Rajender S. Qualitative and quantitative assessment of sperm miRNAs identifies hsa-miR-9-3p, hsa-miR-30b-5p and hsa-miR-122-5p as potential biomarkers of male infertility and sperm quality. Reprod Biol Endocrinol 2022; 20:122. [PMID: 35971175 PMCID: PMC9377062 DOI: 10.1186/s12958-022-00990-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In contrast with the preceding stages of the germ cells, spermatozoa are unusually rich in small non-coding RNAs in comparison to the coding RNAs. These small RNAs may have had an essential role in the process of spermatogenesis or may have critical roles in the post-fertilization development. Sporadic efforts have identified a few differentially expressed miRNAs in infertile individuals, which do not replicate in other studies. METHODS In order to identify miRNAs signatures of infertility or poor sperm quality, we compared miRNA differential expression data across nine datasets, followed by their analysis by real-time PCR in a case-control study. This was followed by the validation of potential biomarkers in yet another set of cases and controls. For this, total RNA was isolated from 161 sperm samples. miRNA expression levels in infertile cases and fertile controls were measured using TaqMan real-time PCR. Meta-analyses of two miRNAs (hsa-miR-9-3p and hsa-miR-122-5p) were performed using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Software (version 2). All statistical analyses were performed with the help of GraphPad Prism Software (version 8). RESULTS Literature search identified seven miRNAs (hsa-let-7a-5p, hsa-miR-9-3p, hsa-miR-22-5p, has-miR-30b-5p, hsa-miR-103-3p, hsa-miR-122-5p and hsa-miR-335-5p) showing consistent dysregulation in infertility across a minimum of four studies. In the discovery phase, six miRNAs showed strong association with infertility with four (hsa-miR-9-3p, hsa-miR-30b-5p, hsa-miR-103-3p and hsa-miR-122-5p) showing consistent differential regulation across all sub-groups. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed that the area under curve of > 0.75 was achieved by three (hsa-mir-9-3p, hsa-miR-30b-5p and hsa-miR-122-5p) miRNAs. In the validation phase, these three miRNAs showed consistent association with infertility (hsa-mir-9-3p, hsa-miR-30b-5p, and hsa-miR-122-5p). Meta-analysis on hsa-miR-122-5p showed its significant quantitative association with infertility [Hedge's g = -2.428, p = 0.001 (Random effects)]. CONCLUSIONS Three miRNAs (hsa-miR-9-3p, hsa-miR-30b-5p and hsa-miR-122-5p) have strong linkage with infertility and a high potential as sperm quality biomarkers.
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- Meghali Joshi
- Division of Endocrinology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
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- Division of Endocrinology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India
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- Division of Endocrinology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India.
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India.
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Sahoo B, Choudhary RK, Sharma P, Choudhary S, Gupta MK. Significance and Relevance of Spermatozoal RNAs to Male Fertility in Livestock. Front Genet 2021; 12:768196. [PMID: 34956322 PMCID: PMC8696160 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.768196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Livestock production contributes to a significant part of the economy in developing countries. Although artificial insemination techniques brought substantial improvements in reproductive efficiency, male infertility remains a leading challenge in livestock. Current strategies for the diagnosis of male infertility largely depend on the evaluation of semen parameters and fail to diagnose idiopathic infertility in most cases. Recent evidences show that spermatozoa contains a suit of RNA population whose profile differs between fertile and infertile males. Studies have also demonstrated the crucial roles of spermatozoal RNA (spRNA) in spermatogenesis, fertilization, and early embryonic development. Thus, the spRNA profile may serve as unique molecular signatures of fertile sperm and may play pivotal roles in the diagnosis and treatment of male fertility. This manuscript provides an update on various spRNA populations, including protein-coding and non-coding RNAs, in livestock species and their potential role in semen quality, particularly sperm motility, freezability, and fertility. The contribution of seminal plasma to the spRNA population is also discussed. Furthermore, we discussed the significance of rare non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) such as long ncRNAs (lncRNAs) and circular RNAs (circRNAs) in spermatogenic events.
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- Bijayalaxmi Sahoo
- Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, India
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- College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, India
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- College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, India
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- College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, India
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- Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, India
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Sun YH, Wang A, Song C, Shankar G, Srivastava RK, Au KF, Li XZ. Single-molecule long-read sequencing reveals a conserved intact long RNA profile in sperm. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1361. [PMID: 33649327 PMCID: PMC7921563 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21524-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Sperm contributes diverse RNAs to the zygote. While sperm small RNAs have been shown to impact offspring phenotypes, our knowledge of the sperm transcriptome, especially the composition of long RNAs, has been limited by the lack of sensitive, high-throughput experimental techniques that can distinguish intact RNAs from fragmented RNAs, known to abound in sperm. Here, we integrate single-molecule long-read sequencing with short-read sequencing to detect sperm intact RNAs (spiRNAs). We identify 3440 spiRNA species in mice and 4100 in humans. The spiRNA profile consists of both mRNAs and long non-coding RNAs, is evolutionarily conserved between mice and humans, and displays an enrichment in mRNAs encoding for ribosome. In sum, we characterize the landscape of intact long RNAs in sperm, paving the way for future studies on their biogenesis and functions. Our experimental and bioinformatics approaches can be applied to other tissues and organisms to detect intact transcripts.
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- Yu H Sun
- Center for RNA Biology: From Genome to Therapeutics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- College of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA
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- Center for RNA Biology: From Genome to Therapeutics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
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- Center for RNA Biology: From Genome to Therapeutics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
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Fucic A, Maric T, Vicic Bockor V, Jezek D. In vivo acridine orange human spermatozoa staining-A new perspective for RNA detection and spermatozoa morphology evaluation. Anat Histol Embryol 2020; 50:102-107. [PMID: 32840006 DOI: 10.1111/ahe.12606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 06/23/2020] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Significant increases in male infertility and the still unresolved questions on the compatibility and interpretation of current methods in infertility diagnostics call for new protocols. Morphology, genome damage, RNA content and quantity are currently in practice as the major parameters in evaluation of sperm quality. However, results of various methods are not always in mutual concordance. In this study, in vivo acridine orange (AO) staining, which is presently in application in the estimation of genome damage in reticulocytes, was adjusted for spermatozoa staining. Ten men suffering from oligoasthenoteratozoospermia (OAT) and 10 healthy fertile men were analysed using in vivo AO staining. Microscopic analysis was performed by fluorescent and confocal fluorescent microscopy. Our results show that this method preserves spermatozoa membranes, which enables new insight into spermatozoa genome damage, RNA content in residual cytoplasm, damage of neck area with mitochondrion and tail pathology. The introduced method explains the difference between results of sperm DNA fragmentation assay and the globally used AO staining and opens new options for the development of automated systems. In conclusion, the results of our study offer (a) an innovative approach to the analysis of spermatozoa pathology, (b) enable localization and quantification of RNA in residual cytoplasm, (c) a significant contribution to research of aetiology of infertility in men, (d) open new perspectives for the automatization of sperm quality estimation and (e) improve the personalized approach in the selection of in vitro fertilization protocols.
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- Aleksandra Fucic
- Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia.,Scientific Centre of Excellence for Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Scientific Centre of Excellence for Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia.,Department of Medical biology, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Division of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Scientific Centre of Excellence for Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia.,Department of Histology and Embryology, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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Paternal inheritance of diet induced metabolic traits correlates with germline regulation of diet induced coding gene expression. Genomics 2020; 112:567-573. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Singh R, Junghare V, Hazra S, Singh U, Sengar GS, Raja TV, Kumar S, Tyagi S, Das AK, Kumar A, Koringa P, Jakhesara S, Joshi CJ, Deb R. Database on spermatozoa transcriptogram of catagorised Frieswal crossbred (Holstein Friesian X Sahiwal) bulls. Theriogenology 2019; 129:130-145. [PMID: 30844654 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2019.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Bull spermatozoa contain different functional genes and many of them plays important roles in different stages of spermatogenesis, spermatozoa kinetics, fertilization as well as embryonic development. RNA deep sequencing is one of the preferred tools for absolute quantification of messenger RNA. The intention of the current study was to investigate the abundance of spermatozoal transcripts in categorized Frieswal (Holstein-Friesian X Sahiwal) crossbred bull semen through RNA deep sequencing. A total 1546561 and 1019308 numbers of reads were identified among good and poor quality bull spermatozoa based on their conception rate. Post mapping with Bos taurus reference genome identified 1,321,236 and 842,022 number of transcripts among good and poor quality RNA libraries, respectively. However, a total number of 3510 and 6759 functional transcripts were identified among good and poor quality bull spermatozoa, respectively. Most of the identified transcripts were related to spermatozoa functions, embryonic development and other functional aspects of fertilization. Wet laboratory validation of the top five selected transcripts (AKAP4, PRM1, ATP2B4, TRIM71 and SLC9B2) illustrated the significant (p < 0.01) level of expression in the good quality crossbred bull semen than the poor quality counterparts. The present study with comprehensive profiling of spermatozoal transcripts provides a useful non-invasive tool to understand the causes of as well as an effective way to predict male infertility in crossbred bulls.
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- Rani Singh
- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut, 250001, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Center of Nanotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Center of Nanotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
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- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut, 250001, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut, 250001, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut, 250001, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut, 250001, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut, 250001, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut, 250001, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut, 250001, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Ome Research Laboratory, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat, India
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- Ome Research Laboratory, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat, India
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- Ome Research Laboratory, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat, India
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- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut, 250001, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Spadafora C. Sperm-Mediated Transgenerational Inheritance. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2401. [PMID: 29255455 PMCID: PMC5722983 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Spermatozoa of virtually all species can spontaneously take up exogenous DNA or RNA molecules and internalize them into nuclei. In this article I review evidence for a key role of a reverse transcriptase (RT) activity, encoded by LINE-1 retrotransposons, in the fate of the internalized nucleic acid molecules and their implication in transgenerational inheritance. LINE-1-derived RT, present in sperm heads, can reverse-transcribe the internalized molecules in cDNA copies: exogenous RNA is reverse-transcribed in a one-step reaction, whereas DNA is first transcribed into RNA and subsequently reverse-transcribed. Both RNA and cDNA molecules can be delivered from sperm cells to oocytes at fertilization, further propagated throughout embryogenesis and inherited in a non-Mendelian fashion in tissues of adult animals. The reverse-transcribed sequences are extrachromosomal, low-abundance, and mosaic distributed in tissues of adult individuals, where they are variably expressed. These “retrogenes” are transcriptionally competent and induce novel phenotypic traits in animals. Growing evidence indicate that cancer tissues produce DNA- and RNA-containing exosomes. We recently found that these exosomes are released in the bloodstream and eventually taken up into epididymal spermatozoa, consistent with the emerging view that a transgenerational flow of extrachromosomal RNA connects soma to germline and, further, to next generation embryos. Spermatozoa play a crucial bridging role in this process: they act as collectors of somatic information and as delivering vectors to the next generation. On the whole, this phenomenon is compatible with a Lamarckian-type view and closely resembles Darwinian pangenesis.
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- Corrado Spadafora
- Institute of Translational Pharmacology, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy
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Selvaraju S, Parthipan S, Somashekar L, Kolte AP, Krishnan Binsila B, Arangasamy A, Ravindra JP. Occurrence and functional significance of the transcriptome in bovine (Bos taurus) spermatozoa. Sci Rep 2017; 7:42392. [PMID: 28276431 PMCID: PMC5343582 DOI: 10.1038/srep42392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 01/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Mammalian spermatozoa deliver various classes of RNAs to the oocyte during fertilization, and many of them may regulate fertility. The objective of the present study was to determine the composition and abundance of spermatozoal transcripts in fresh bull semen. The entire transcriptome of the spermatozoa from bulls (n = 3) was sequenced using two different platforms (Ion Proton and Illumina) to identify the maximum number of genes present in the spermatozoa. The bovine spermatozoa contained transcripts for 13,833 genes (transcripts per million, TPM > 10). Both intact and fragmented transcripts were found. These spermatozoal transcripts were associated with various stages of spermatogenesis, spermatozoal function, fertilization, and embryo development. The presence of intact transcripts of pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) in the spermatozoa suggest a possible influence of sperm transcripts beyond early embryonic development. The specific regions (exon, intron, and exon-intron) of the particular spermatozoal transcripts might help regulate fertilization. This study demonstrates that the use of two different RNA-seq platforms provides a comprehensive profile of bovine spermatozoal RNA. Spermatozoal RNA profiling may be useful as a non-invasive method to delineate possible causes of male infertility and to predict fertility in a manner that is more effective than the conventional methods.
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- Sellappan Selvaraju
- Reproductive Physiology Laboratory, Animal Physiology Division, ICAR- National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi, Bengaluru-560030, India
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- Reproductive Physiology Laboratory, Animal Physiology Division, ICAR- National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi, Bengaluru-560030, India
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- Reproductive Physiology Laboratory, Animal Physiology Division, ICAR- National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi, Bengaluru-560030, India
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- Omics Laboratory, Animal Nutrition Division, ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi, Bengaluru-560030, India
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- Reproductive Physiology Laboratory, Animal Physiology Division, ICAR- National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi, Bengaluru-560030, India
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- Reproductive Physiology Laboratory, Animal Physiology Division, ICAR- National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi, Bengaluru-560030, India
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- Reproductive Physiology Laboratory, Animal Physiology Division, ICAR- National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi, Bengaluru-560030, India
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