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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | SOX30 is required for male fertility in mice |
Author: | Feng, C.W.A. Spiller, C. Merriner, D.J. O'Bryan, M.K. Bowles, J. Koopman, P. |
Citation: | Scientific Reports, 2017; 7(1):17619-1-17619-12 |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 2045-2322 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Chun-Wei Allen Feng, Cassy Spiller, Donna J. Merriner, Moira K. O’Bryan, Josephine Bowles, Peter Koopman |
Abstract: | Male infertility is a major and growing problem and, in most cases, the specific root cause is unknown. Here we show that the transcription factor SOX30 plays a critical role in mouse spermatogenesis. Sox30-null mice are healthy and females are fertile, but males are sterile. In the absence of Sox30 meiosis initiates normally in both sexes but, in males, germ cell development arrests during the post-meiotic round spermatid period. In the mutant testis, acrosome and axoneme development are aberrant, multinucleated germ cells (symplasts) form and round spermatids unable to process beyond step 3 of spermiogenesis. No elongated spermatids nor spermatozoa are produced. Thus, Sox30 represents a rare example of a gene for which loss of function results in a complete arrest of spermatogenesis at the onset of spermiogenesis. Our results suggest that SOX30 mutations may underlie some instances of unexplained non-obstructive azoospermia in humans. |
Keywords: | Azoospermia |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2017. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-017-17854-5 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1058356 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1059006 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140104059 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1109502 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17854-5 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Medicine publications |
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