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Expression of three t-complex genes, Tcp-1, D17Leh117c3, and D17Leh66, in purified murine spermatogenic cell populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

K. R. Willison ,
G. Hynes ,
P. Davies ,
A. Goldsborough  and
V. A. Lewis
K. R. Willison
Affiliation:
Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beany Laboratories, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, U.K.
G. Hynes
Affiliation:
Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beany Laboratories, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, U.K.
P. Davies
Affiliation:
Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beany Laboratories, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, U.K.
A. Goldsborough
Affiliation:
Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beany Laboratories, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, U.K.
V. A. Lewis
Affiliation:
Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beany Laboratories, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, U.K.
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Transmission ratio distortion (TRD) is a property of the complete t-haplotype which results in the preferential transmission of the t-haplotype chromosome from heterozygous t/+ males to the majority of the progeny. Available data suggest that in t/+ males, a dysfunction of the wild-type sperm within the female reproductive tract is responsible for the observed deviation from Mendelian segregation ratios. Genetically, Lyon has shown that multiple loci within the t-complex are required for maximum levels of TRD. These loci include multiple t-complex distorters (Teds) which act upon a single t-complex responder (Ter). Testis-expressed genes have been cloned which map to the same subregions of the t-complex as the Teds and Ter and are thus considered candidate genes for the products of these loci. To begin to understand how the products of these loci biochemically control TRD, the expression of three TRD-candidate genes (Tcp-1, D17Leh117c3, and D17Leh66) has been determined in populations of spermatocytes and differentiated spermatids purified to near homogeneity by unit gravity sedimentation. Fractions covering the entire gradient were analysed resulting in a more accurate picture of the precise timing of expression than previously reported. Transcription of all three genes was up-regulated in pachytene primary spermatocytes and persisted at stable levels through the haploid spermatid stages. Significantly, only levels of mRNA encoded by D17Leh66, the candidate gene for Tcr, increased from early round to elongating-stage spermatids. If this pattern of expression does, in fact, represent Tcr, these data provide the first direct evidence that wild-type and t-haplotype Tcr elements could be differentially expressed in haploid spermatids.

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Genetics Research , Volume 56 , Issue 2-3 , October 1990 , pp. 193 - 201
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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