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RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.
Developmental expression of the S35-S45/SGP-2/TRPM-2 gene in rat testis and epididymis.
Molecular Reproduction and Development 1992 December
Testosterone-repressed prostate message-2 (TRPM-2) was originally isolated and cloned from the regressing ventral prostate of the rat. In this tissue, and in other hormone-dependent tissues such as the mammary gland, this gene is induced in the absence of the appropriate trophic hormone. Sequence analysis of the cDNA and genomic clones of TRPM-2 have demonstrated that the coding sequence of this gene is identical to S35-S45 (also known as SGP-2 and clusterin), which is constitutively expressed by the Sertoli cells of the adult testis. Using Northern, slot blot, S1-nuclease analysis, and in situ hybridization, we have investigated the regulation of TRPM-2 expression in the testis and epididymis during development. Slot blot analysis of RNA extracted from the testis and epididymis of 7-, 14-, 28-, 35-, and 91-day-old rats demonstrates that the gene is induced to detectable levels between days 7 and 14 and that the relative level of expression does not change significantly after day 14. In situ hybridization using frozen sections of testis from day 2-, 7-, 14-, 28-, 35-, and 91-day-old rats confirms that there is little expression of TPRM-2 in the seminiferous epithelium of 7-day-old rats, but this increases considerably after 14 days, primarily in Sertoli cells but also in association with meiotic developing spermatogenic cells. However, TRPM-2 mRNA is expressed in the rete testis at 2 days of age, reaches a peak at 35 days of age, and continues to be expressed in the adult. Slot blot analysis demonstrates that TRPM-2 is also induced in the epididymis between 7 and 14 days of age, although, as has been demonstrated by in situ hybridization, TRPM-2 mRNA is detectable in the epithelial cells in the head of the epididymis but is barely detectable in the midportion or tail regions. Northern analysis suggests that the size of the TRPM-2 transcript in the testis also changes during development. In the early stages of testicular development, the TRPM-2 transcript appears to be a broad band of approximately 1.5 kb, while the transcript in the adult appears to be approximately 1.8 kb in length. S1-nuclease protection assays suggest that this increase in size is not due to differential splicing of the first exon of TRPM-2/SGP-2 and most probably reflects a difference in the polyadenylation of the mRNA in the testis at different times during development.
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