Abnormal sperm morphology caused by defects in sertoli cells of Cnot7 knockout mice
Abnormal sperm morphology caused by defects in sertoli cells of Cnot7 knockout mice
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DOI：
10.1679/aohc.67.307
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发表时间：
2004-11-01
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Toshimori, K
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Ogawa, T;Ito, C;Toshimori, K
Cnot7 is a co-factor of transcription regulation, expressed in a variety of tissues including the lung, liver, thyroid gland, and testis. Our previous study (Nakamura et al., 2004) showed that deletion of the Cnot7 gene in mice caused almost no abnormal phenotypes except for male infertility, due to oligo-astheno-teratozoospermia. This study also showed that Cnot7(-/-) mouse germ cells transplanted as donors could colonize in recipient wild mouse testes to develop normal spermatogenesis by spermatogonial transplantation assay, suggesting that the abnormal spermatogenesis observed in the Cnot7(-/-) testes was induced by the impaired testicular microenvironment rather than a germ cell defect. In the present study, we have carried out reciprocal germ cell transplantation in which wild type germ cells were transplanted as donors into the recipient Cnot7(-/-) testes to evaluate the recipient microenvironment for supporting the spermatogenesis of donor cells. We noticed that donor cell colonization was less efficient in Cnot7(-/-) than in Cnot7(-/-) testes, and that the donor derived spermatids in the recipient Cnot7-/- testes showed severe deformities. These results support our previous report that Sertoli cell defects in the Cnot7(+) testes could induce oligo-astheno-teratozoospermia.
