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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-10-21
pubmed:abstractText
There is considerable evidence that germ cells, mainly spermatocytes and spermatids, contribute to the regulation of Sertoli cell activity. We developed an in vitro system to investigate the genes involved in Sertoli cell-germ cell interaction in the mouse by using the differential mRNA display technique. One of the isolated differentially expressed genes, named calgizzarin, belongs to the family of S100 calcium-binding proteins and shows a decreased expression in Sertoli cell-germ cell cocultures compared to cultured Sertoli cells alone. Calgizzarin is expressed in all adult tissues examined, including testis and ovary; however, a high mRNA level for calgizzarin in mouse testis is maintained until day 15 of postnatal development and then declines dramatically, whereas the expression pattern in the ovary remains constantly high. Furthermore, Northern blot studies on testicular RNA from different mouse mutants with defects in spermatogenesis revealed that high levels of calgizzarin transcripts can only be detected in testes of mouse mutants with either no germ cells or primary spermatocytes, but only weak signals for calgizzarin are observed in testes of mutants containing spermatids. In addition, using both RT-PCR analysis and whole-mount in situ hybridization on dissected gonads it was demonstrated that mouse calgizzarin expression starts at 13.5 dpc in the prenatal male gonad and at 16.5 dpc in the embryonic ovary, respectively. The mouse calgizzarin gene was localized on mouse chromosome 5, region E-F. Taken together, our results indicate that calgizzarin expression could be repressed by factors originated from pachytene spermatocytes and/or spermatids.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1040-452X
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 1999 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
54
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
232-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Arabidopsis Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Germ Cells, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Introns, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-MADS Domain Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Meiosis, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Models, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Ovary, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Plant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Sertoli Cells, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Spermatocytes, pubmed-meshheading:10497345-Testis
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Developmental stage- and germ cell-regulated expression of a calcium-binding protein mRNA in mouse Sertoli cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Human Genetics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't