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  • Circadian Proteins CLOCK and BMAL1 in the Chromatoid Body, a RNA Processing Granule of Male Germ Cells. 22900038

    Spermatogenesis is a complex differentiation process that involves genetic and epigenetic regulation, sophisticated hormonal control, and extensive structural changes in male germ cells. RNA nuclear and cytoplasmic bodies appear to be critical for the progress of spermatogenesis. The chromatoid body (CB) is a cytoplasmic organelle playing an important role in RNA post-transcriptional and translation regulation during the late steps of germ cell differentiation. The CB is also important for fertility determination since mutations of genes encoding its components cause infertility by spermatogenesis arrest. Targeted ablation of the Bmal1 and Clock genes, which encode central regulators of the circadian clock also result in fertility defects caused by problems other than spermatogenesis alterations. We show that the circadian proteins CLOCK and BMAL1 are localized in the CB in a stage-specific manner of germ cells. Both BMAL1 and CLOCK proteins physically interact with the ATP-dependent DEAD-box RNA helicase MVH (mouse VASA homolog), a hallmark component of the CB. BMAL1 is differentially expressed during the spermatogenic cycle of seminiferous tubules, and Bmal1 and Clock deficient mice display significant CB morphological alterations due to BMAL1 ablation or low expression. These findings suggest that both BMAL1 and CLOCK contribute to CB assembly and physiology, raising questions on the role of the circadian clock in reproduction and on the molecular function that CLOCK and BMAL1 could potentially have in the CB assembly and physiology.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    AP160P
    Product Catalog Name:
    Rabbit Anti-Mouse IgG Antibody, HRP conjugate

  • TDRD5 is required for retrotransposon silencing, chromatoid body assembly, and spermiogenesis in mice. 21383078

    The Tudor domain-containing proteins (TDRDs) are an evolutionarily conserved family of proteins involved in germ cell development. We show here that in mice, TDRD5 is a novel component of the intermitochondrial cements (IMCs) and the chromatoid bodies (CBs), which are cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein granules involved in RNA processing for spermatogenesis. Tdrd5-deficient males are sterile because of spermiogenic arrest at the round spermatid stage, with occasional failure in meiotic prophase. Without TDRD5, IMCs and CBs are disorganized, with mislocalization of their key components, including TDRD1/6/7/9 and MIWI/MILI/MIWI2. In addition, Tdrd5-deficient germ cells fail to repress LINE-1 retrotransposons with DNA-demethylated promoters. Cyclic adenosine monophosphate response element modulator (CREM) and TRF2, key transcription factors for spermiogenesis, are expressed in Tdrd5-deficient round spermatids, but their targets, including Prm1/Prm2/Tnp1, are severely down-regulated, which indicates the importance of IMC/CB-mediated regulation for postmeiotic gene expression. Strikingly, Tdrd5-deficient round spermatids injected into oocytes contribute to fertile offspring, demonstrating that acquisition of a functional haploid genome may be uncoupled from TDRD5 function.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    05-636
    Product Catalog Name:
    Anti-phospho-Histone H2A.X (Ser139) Antibody, clone JBW301

  • Chromatographic purification of the chloroplast ATP synthase (CF0-CF1) and the role of CF0 subunit IV in proton conduction. 2142687

    Chromatographic procedures were developed to purify chloroplast ATP synthase (CF0-CF1) in large amounts and to resolve subunits from this enzyme. The ATP synthase thus obtained has high ATP-Pi exchange and Mg2(+)-ATPase activities upon incorporation into asolectin liposomes. The purity of this preparation was about 95%. By modifications of this chromatographic procedure, we purified subunit IV-deficient CF0-CF1, subunit IV-deficient CF0, and subunit IV. Both ATP-Pi exchange and Mg2(+)-ATPase activities were impaired by depletion of subunit IV from CF0-CF1. Partial restoration of these activities was obtained by reconstituting subunit IV-deficient CF0-CF1 with subunit IV. The impairment of these activities was likely caused by a loss in proton conductivity of CF0 upon removal of subunit IV. The dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-sensitive Mg2(+)-ATPase of subunit IV-deficient CF0-CF1 was not as sensitive to the depletion of subunit IV as ATP-Pi exchange. Nearly 90% of subunit IV could be removed, but Mg2(+)-ATPase activity was inhibited by only 40-60%. Thus subunit IV of CF0-CF1 may not participate directly in proton transfer but may have a role in organizing and/or stabilizing CF0 structure.
    Document Type:
    Reference
    Product Catalog Number:
    20-190
    Product Catalog Name:
    TBS, 20X