Yurina Shishido, Takashi Baba, Tetsuya Sato, Yuichi Shima, Kanako Miyabayashi, Miki Inoue, Haruhiko Akiyama, Hiroshi Kimura, Yoshiakira Kanai, Yasuhiro Ishihara, Shogo Haraguchi, Akira Miyazaki, Damjana Rozman, Takeshi Yamazaki, Man-Ho Choi, Yasuyuki Ohkawa, Mikita Suyama, Ken-Ichirou Morohashi
SRY, a sex-determining gene, induces testis development in chromosomally female (XX) individuals. However, mouse XX Sertoli cells carrying Sry (XX/Sry Sertoli cells) are incapable of fully supporting germ cell development, even when the karyotype of the germ cells is XY. While it has therefore been assumed that XX/Sry Sertoli cells are not functionally equivalent to XY Sertoli cells, it has remained unclear which specific functions are affected. To elucidate the functional difference, we compared the gene expression of XY and XX/Sry Sertoli cells...
February 2, 2017: Scientific Reports