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  • Title: Stage-dependent expression of mRNA for cyclic protein 2 during spermatogenesis is modulated by elongate spermatids.
    Author: Maguire SM, Millar MR, Sharpe RM, Saunders PT.
    Journal: Mol Cell Endocrinol; 1993 Jul; 94(1):79-88. PubMed ID: 8375577.
    Abstract:
    Cyclic protein 2 (CP-2) is a product of the Sertoli cell which is secreted in a cyclical manner according to the stage of the spermatogenic cycle. This study has assessed the influence of the germ cell complement on expression of CP-2 mRNA. Adult rats were treated with 650 mg/kg methoxyacetic acid (MAA) to induce the specific depletion of > 80% of pachytene and later spermatocytes from most tubules, and expression of CP-2 mRNA was then assessed at various times after treatment when particular germ cell types were depleted selectively. CP-2 mRNA was specifically localised to the Sertoli cells of the seminiferous tubules by non-radioactive in situ hybridisation using a digoxigenin-labelled riboprobe. A stage specific variation in CP-2 mRNA levels was observed, with the mRNA being most abundant at stages IV-VII of the spermatogenic cycle. Northern analysis revealed that treatment with MAA led to an apparent increase in the amount of the major 1.7 kb CP-2 transcript when either pachytene spermatocytes or round spermatids were depleted. In contrast, the level of CP-2 mRNA was decreased by more than half at 21 days after MAA treatment. This decrease was confirmed by in situ hybridisation at 21 days after MAA treatment, when CP-2 mRNA expression was found to be decreased or absent from tubules at stages at which CP-2 mRNA is normally expressed (stages IV-VII) when elongate spermatids were depleted selectively from these tubules. These observations lead us to hypothesise that elongate spermatids positively modulate CP-2 mRNA expression in the Sertoli cell.
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