Caenorhabditis elegans homologue of the human azoospermia factor DAZ is required for oogenesis but not for spermatogenesis

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1069-1079

  Karashima, Takeshi ^a   Sugimoto, Asako ^a   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; DAZ; Germline; Meiosis; Oogenesis; Pachytene

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPISTASIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERMAPHRODITISM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOGENESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034109162     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Agulnik, A. I., Zharkikh, A., Boettger-Tong, H., Bourgeron, T., McElreavey, K. and Bishop, C. E. (1998). Evolution of the DAZ gene family suggests that Y-linked DAZ plays little, or a limited, role in spermatogenesis but underlines a recent African origin for human populations. Hum. Mol. Genet. 7, 1371-1377.
2. Ajiro, K., Yoda, K., Utsumi, K. and Nishikawa, Y. (1996). Alteration of cell cycle-dependent histone phosphorylations by okadaic acid. Induction of mitosis-specific H3 phosphorylation and chromatin condensation in mammalian interphase cells. J. Biol. Chem. 271, 13197-13201.
3. Alphey, L., Jimenez, J., White-Cooper, H., Dawson, I., Nurse, P. and Glover, D. M. (1992). twine, a cdc25 homolog that functions in the male and female germline of Drosophila. Cell 69, 977-988.
4. Austin, J. and Kimble, J. (1987). glp-1 is required in the germ line for regulation of the decision between mitosis and meiosis in C. elegans. Cell 51, 589-599.
5. Barton, M. K., Schedl, T. B. and Kimble, J. (1987). Gain-of-function mutations of fem-3, a sex-determination gene in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 115, 107-119.
6. Beanan, M. J. and Strome, S. (1992). Characterization of a germ-line proliferation mutation in C. elegans. Development 116, 755-766.
7. Brenner, S. (1974). The genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 77, 71-94.
8. Burd, C. G. and Dreyfuss, G. (1994). Conserved structures and diversity of functions of RNA-binding proteins. Science 265, 615-621.
9. Christensen, S., Kodoyianni, V., Bosenberg, M., Friedman, L. and Kimble, J. (1996). lag-1, a gene required for lin-12 and glp-1 signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans, is homologous to human CBFI and Drosophila Su(H). Development 122, 1373-1383.
10. Church, D. L., Guan, K. L. and Lambie, E. J. (1995). Three genes of the MAP kinase cascade, mek-2, mpk-1/sur-1 and let-60 ras, are required for meiotic cell cycle progression in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development 121, 2525-2535.
11. Cooke, H. J., Lee, M., Kerr, S. and Ruggiu, M. (1996). A murine homologue of the human DAZ gene is autosomal and expressed only in male and female gonads. Hum. Mol. Genet. 5, 513-516.
12. Courtot, C., Fankhauser, C., Simanis, V. and Lehner, C. F. (1992). The Drosophila cdc25 homolog twine is required for meiosis. Development 116, 405-416.
13. Crittenden, S. L., Troemel, E. R., Evans, T. C. and Kimble, J. (1994). GLP-1 is localized to the mitotic region of the C. elegans germ line. Development 120, 2901-2911.
14. Eberhart, C. G., Maines, J. Z. and Wasserman, S. A. (1996). Meiotic cell cycle requirement for a fly homologue of human Deleted in Azoospermia. Nature 381, 783-785.
15. Ellis, H. M. and Horvitz, H. R. (1986). Genetic control of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans. Cell 44, 819-827.
16. Ellis, R. E. and Kimble, J. (1994). Control of germ cell differentiation in Caenorhabditis elegans. CIBA Found. Symp. 182, 179-188.
17. Ellis, R. E. and Kimble, J. (1995). The fog-3 gene and regulation of cell fate in the germ line of Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 139, 561-577.
18. Fire, A., Xu, S., Montgomery, M. K., Kostas, S. A., Driver, S. E. and Mello, C. C. (1998). Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 391, 806-811.
19. Francis, R., Barton, M. K., Kimble, J. and Schedl, T. (1995a). gld-1, a tumor suppressor gene required for oocyte development in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 139, 579-606.
20. Francis, R., Maine, E. and Schedl, T. (1995b). Analysis of the multiple roles of gld-1 in germline development: interactions with the sex determination cascade and the glp-1 signaling pathway. Genetics 139, 607-630.
21. Graves, L. E., Segal, S. and Goodwin, E. B. (1999). TRA-1 regulates the cellular distribution of the tra-2 mRNA in C. elegans. Nature 399, 802-805.
22. Gumienny, T. L., Lambie, E., Hartwieg, E., Horvitz, H. R., Hengartner, M. O. (1999). Genetic control of programmed cell death in the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite germline. Development 126, 1011-1022.
23. Guo, S. and Kemphues, K. J. (1995), par-1, a gene required for establishing polarity in C. elegans embryos, encodes a putative Ser/Thr kinase that is asymmetrically distributed. Cell 81, 611-620.
24. Hartwell, L. H. (1974). Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell cycle. Bacteriol. Rev. 38, 164-198.
25. Henderson, S. T., Gao, D., Lambie, E. J. and Kimble, J. (1994). lag-2 may encode a signaling ligand for the GLP-1 and LIN-12 receptors of C. elegans. Development 120, 2913-2924.
26. Hodgkin, J. (1986). Sex determination in the nematode C. elegans: analysis of tra-3 suppressors and characterization of fem genes. Genetics 114, 15-52.
27. Houston, D. W., Zhang, J., Maines, J. Z., Wasserman, S. A. and King, M. L. (1998). A Xenopus DAZ-like gene encodes an RNA component of germ plasm and is a functional homologue of Drosophila boule. Development 125, 171-180.
28. Iino, Y., Hiramine, Y. and Yamamoto, M. (1995). The role of cdc2 and other genes in meiosis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Genetics 140, 1235-1245.
29. Jan, E., Motzny, C. K., Graves, L. E. and Goodwin, E. B. (1999). The STAR protein, GLD-1, is a translational regulator of sexual identity in Caenorhabditis elegans. EMBO J. 18, 258-269.
30. Jones, A. R., Francis, R. and Schedl, T. (1996). GLD-1, a cytoplasmic protein essential for oocyte differentiation, shows stage- and sex-specific expression during Caenorhabditis elegans germline development. Dev. Biol. 180, 165-183.
31. Jones, A. R. and Schedl, T. (1995). Mutations in gld-1, a female germ cell-specific tumor suppressor gene in Caenorhabditis elegans, affect a conserved domain also found in Src- associated protein Sam68. Genes Dev. 9, 1491-1504.
32. Kadyk, L. C. and Kimble, J. (1998). Genetic regulation of entry into meiosis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development 125, 1803-1813.
33. Krause, M. and Hirsh, D. (1987). A trans-spliced leader sequence on actin mRNA in C. elegans. Cell 49, 753-761.
34. Maegawa, S., Yasuda, K. and Inoue, K. (1999). Maternal mRNA localization of zebrafish DAZ-like gene. Mech. Dev. 81, 223-226.
35. Maines, J. Z. and Wasserman, S. A. (1999). Post-transcriptional regulation of the meiotic Cdc25 protein Twine by the Dazl orthologue Boule. Nat. Cell Biol. 1, 171-174.
36. Marin, I. and Baker, B. S. (1998). The evolutionary dynamics of sex determination. Science 281, 1990-1994.
37. Nagai, K., Oubridge, C., Ito, N., Avis, J. and Evans, P. (1995) The RNP domain: a sequence-specific RNA-binding domain involved in processing and transport of RNA. Trends Biochem. Sci. 20, 235-240.
38. Nelson, G. A. and Ward, S. (1980). Vesicle fusion, pseudopod extension and amoeboid motility are induced in nematode spermatids by the ionophore monensin. Cell 19, 457-464.
39. Ohmachi, M., Sugimoto, A., Iino, Y. and Yamamoto, M. (1999). kel-1, a novel Kelch-related gene in Caenorhabditis elegans, is expressed in pharyngeal gland cells and is required for the feeding process. Genes Cells 4, 325-337.
40. Parkhurst, S. M. and Meneely, P. M. (1994). Sex determination and dosage compensation: lessons from flies and worms. Science 264, 924-932.
41. Reijo, R., Lee, T. Y., Salo, P., Alagappan, R., Brown, L. G., Rosenberg, M., Rozen, S., Jaffe, T., Straus, D., Hovatta, O. et al. (1995). Diverse spermatogenic defects in humans caused by Y chromosome deletions encompassing a novel RNA-binding protein gene. Nat. Genet. 10, 383-393.
42. Reijo, R., Seligman, J., Dinulos, M. B., Jaffe, T., Brown, L. G., Disteche, C. M. and Page, D. C. (1996). Mouse autosomal homolog of DAZ, a candidate male sterility gene in humans, is expressed in male germ cells before and after puberty. Genomics 35, 346-352.
43. Ruggiu, M., Speed, R., Taggart, M., McKay, S. J., Kilanowski, F., Saunders, P., Dorin, J. and Cooke, H. J. (1997). The mouse Dazla gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein essential for gametogenesis. Nature 389, 73-77.
44. Salles, F. J., Darrow, A. L., O'Connell, M. L. and Strickland, S. (1992). Isolation of novel murine maternal mRNAs regulated by cytoplasmic polyadenylation. Genes Dev. 6, 1202-1212.
45. Saxena, R., Brown, L. G., Hawkins, T., Alagappan, R. K., Skaletsky, H., Reeve, M. P., Reijo, R., Rozen, S., Dinulos, M. B., Disteche, C. M. et al. (1996). The DAZ gene cluster on the human Y chromosome arose from an autosomal gene that was transposed, repeatedly amplified and pruned. Nat. Genet. 14, 292-299.
46. Schedl, T. (1997). Developmental Genetics of the Germ Line. In C. ELEGANS II (ed. D. L. Riddle, T. Blumenthal, B. J. Meyer and J. R. Priess), pp. 241-269. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
47. Seboun, E., Barhaux, S., Bourgeron, T., Nishi, S., Agulnik, A., Egashira, M., Nikkawa, N., Bishop, C., Fellous, M., McElreavey, K. et al. (1997). Gene sequence, localization, and evolutionary conservation of DAZLA, a candidate male sterility gene [published erratum appears in Genomics 1997 Oct 15;45(2):477]. Genomics 41, 227-235.
48. Seligman, J. and Page, D. C. (1998). The Dazh gene is expressed in male and female embryonic gonads before germ cell sex differentiation. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 245, 878-882.
49. Tabara, H., Grishok, A. and Mello, C. C. (1998). RNAi in C. elegans: soaking in the genome sequence. Science 282, 430-431.
50. Tabara, H., Motohashi, T. and Kohara, V. (1996). A multi-well version of in situ hybridization on whole mount embryos of Caenorhabditis elegans. Nucleic Acids Res. 24, 2119-2124.
51. The C. elegans Sequencing Consortium (1998). Genome sequence of the nematode C. elegans: a platform for investigating biology. Science 282, 2012-2018.
52. Watanabe, Y., Shinozaki-Yabana, S., Chikashige, Y., Hiraoka, Y. and Yamamoto, M. (1997). Phosphorylation of RNA-binding protein controls cell cycle switch from mitotic to meiotic in fission yeast. Nature 386, 187-190.
53. + encodes an RNA-binding protein essential for premeiotic DNA synthesis and meiosis I. which cooperates with a novel RNA species meiRNA. Cell 78, 487-498.
54. White-Cooper, H., Alphey, L. and Glover, D. M. (1993) The cdc25 homologue twine is required for only some aspects of the entry into meiosis in Drosophila. J. Cell Sci. 106, 1035-1044.
55. Yamashita, A., Watanabe, Y., Nukina, N. and Yamamoto, M. (1998). RNA-assisted nuclear transport of the moiotic regulator Mei2p in fission yeast. Cell 95, 115-123.
56. Yandell, M. D., Edgar, L. G. and Wood, W. B. (1994). Trimethylpsoralen induces small deletion mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 1381-1385.
57. Zhang, B., Gallegos, M., Puoti, A., Durkin, E., Fields, S., Kimble, J. and Wickens, M. P. (1997). A conserved RNA-hinding protein that regulates sexual fates in the C. elegans hermaphrodite germ line. Nature 390, 477-484.