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Article Dans Une Revue Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology Année : 2009

Fhl5/Act, a CREM-binding transcriptional activator required for normal sperm maturation and morphology, is not essential for testicular gene expression.

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BACKGROUND: The LIM domain protein Fhl5 was previously found to interact with CREM, a DNA binding transcriptional regulator necessary for spermiogenesis in mammals. Co-transfection experiments using heterologous promoter constructs indicated a role for Fhl5 in transcriptional up-regulation of CREM-dependent testicular genes. Male mice lacking Fhl5 were reported to be fertile but displayed partially abnormal sperm maturation and morphology. METHODS: To identify Fhl5 testicular target genes we carried out two whole-genome expression profiling experiments using high-density oligonucleotide microarrays and total testis samples from Fhl5 wild-type versus homozygous mutant mice first in different and then in isogenic strain backgrounds. RESULTS: Weak signal differences were detected in non-isogenic samples but no statistically significant expression changes were observed when isogenic Fhl5 mutant and wild-type samples were compared. CONCLUSION: The outcome of these experiments suggests that testicular expression profiling is extremely sensitive to the genetic background and that Fhl5 is not essential for testicular gene expression to a level detected by microarray-based measurements. This might be due to redundant function of the related and similarly expressed protein Fhl4.
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inserm-00658993 , version 1 (11-01-2012)

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Aurélie Lardenois, Frédéric Chalmel, Philippe Demougin, Noora Kotaja, Paolo Sassone-Corsi, et al.. Fhl5/Act, a CREM-binding transcriptional activator required for normal sperm maturation and morphology, is not essential for testicular gene expression.. Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2009, 7 (1), pp.133. ⟨10.1186/1477-7827-7-133⟩. ⟨inserm-00658993⟩
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