M-HT was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Pro- gram of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB19000000), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2014CB943101), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC1000600), SIBS foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31471401 and 31671553), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (14140901502 and 14JC1407100). This work was also supported by NIH HG008688 (CH). CH is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. XY was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81472855 and 91540109), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China Grant (2016YFC0906001). We thank the Histology, Flow Cytometry and Vivarium services at SIBCB, and the Genome Sequencing and High-performance Computing services from the National Protein Science Facility (Beijing) at Tsinghua University.
Spermatogenesis is a differentiation process during which diploid spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) produce hap- loid spermatozoa. This highly specialized process is precisely controlled at the transcriptional, postt...
We thank Dr Y-L Zhao from Beijing Institute of Genomics,Chinese Academy of Sciences for scientific suggestion. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31422038, 31471395, 31625016 and 31670824), the National Basic Research Program of China (2014CB964800, 2016YFC0900300), CAS Strategic Priority Research Program (XDB14030300, QYZDY-SSW-SMC027/002, QYZDB-SSW- SMC022). We thank BIG sequencing core facility for sequencing.
METTL3 catalyzes the formation of N%methyl-adenosine (m6A) which has important roles in regulating various biological processes. However, the in vivo function of Mettl3 remains largely unknown in mammals. Here we ge...
We thank Prof Tao Pan (The University of Chicago) for kind- ly providing the polysome profiling instrument. We thank Peter Chen and Phil Xie for technical assistance. We also thank the Institutes of Biomedical Sciences at Fudan University for the protein mass spectrometry experiments. This work was support- ed by the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (31622039 to BS), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC1000600 to BS, 2016YFA0500902 to ML, 2017YFA0103803 to JS), the Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Jiangsu Province (BK20160045 to BS), and National Institutes of Health grants HG008935 and GM113194 (to CH). CH is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). HM is supported by the Postdoctoral International Exchange Program of the China Postdoctoral Coun- cil (CPC). PH is supported by the University of Chicago Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP; NIH MSTP training grant T32GM007281).
N^6-methyladenosine (m^6A) is the most common internal modification in eukaryotic mRNA. It is dynamically in- stalled and removed, and acts as a new layer of mRNA metabolism, regulating biological processes includin...
The acrosome is a specialized organelle that covers the anterior part of the sperm nucleus and plays an essential role in the process of fertilization. The molecular mechanism underlying the biogenesis of this lysosom...
piRNAs, a class of small non-coding RNAs associated with PIWI proteins, have broad functions in germline development, transposon silencing, and epigenetic regulation. In diverse organisms, a subset of piRNAs derived f...
Germline stem (GS) cells were established from gonocytes and spermatogonia of postnatal mouse testes. GS cells proliferate in the presence of several kinds of cytokines, and a small percentage of GS cells also show ...
The method of laser capture microdissection (LCM) combined with suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) was developed to isolate specific germ cells from human testis sections and to identify the genes expressed d...
supported by grants from the Special Fund for Major State Basic Research Project(No.G1999055901);National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(No.30240019);National High Technology Research and Technology of China(No.2001AA221131);State Ministry of Science and Technology Program(No.2002BA711A011.
Variable Charge X/Y (VCX/Y) is a human testis-specific gene family that localized on X and Y chromosomes. In this study, VCY protein was expressed in E. coli in the form of glutathione-S-transferase (GST) fusion prote...
National Natural Science FOundation of China.Grant! Nos: 39770370, 39630160;We are grateful to Dr. A. Koff and Dr. J. Pines f
p34cdc2 and Cyclin B1 are key components of cell cycle controlling machine and are believed to play a fundamental role in gametogenesis. It is also well known that, in scrotal mammals, spermatogenesis depends greatly ...
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is produced primarily by Leydig cells of human testis. Expression of the EGF gene was assessed in mouse testis during the course of sexual maturation by the application of the RT-PCR meth...