Signal regulatory protein alpha is a conserved marker for mouse and rat spermatogonial stem cells
Signal regulatory protein alpha is a conserved marker for mouse and rat spermatogonial stem cells
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DOI:
10.1093/biolre/ioad006
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发表时间:
2023-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Takehiro Miyazaki;Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara;M. Ema;T. Shinohara
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作者:
Takehiro Miyazaki;Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara;M. Ema;T. Shinohara
Abstract Characterization of spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) has been hampered by their low frequency and lack of features that distinguish them from committed spermatogonia. Few conserved SSC markers have been discovered. To identify a new SSC marker, we evaluated SIRPA expression in mouse and rat SSCs. SIRPA was expressed in a small population of undifferentiated spermatogonia. SIRPA, and its ligand CD47 were expressed in cultured SSCs. Expression of both SIRPA and CD47 was upregulated by supplementation of GDNF and FGF2, which promoted SSC self-renewal. Sirpa depletion by short hairpin RNA impaired the proliferation of cultured SSCs, and these cells showed decreased MAP2K1 activation and PTPN11 phosphorylation. Immunoprecipitation experiments showed that SIRPA associates with PTPN11. Ptpn11 depletion impaired SSC activity in a manner similar to Sirpa depletion. SIRPA was expressed in undifferentiated spermatogonia in rat and monkey testes. Xenogenic transplantation experiments demonstrated that SIRPA is expressed in rat SSCs. These results suggest that SIRPA is a conserved SSC marker that promotes SSC self-renewal division by activating the MAP2K1 pathway via PTPN11. Summary Sentence SIRPA is expressed on mouse and rat SSCs.