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Originally published in Science Express on 12 April 2001
Science 11 May 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5519, pp. 1153 - 1155
DOI: 10.1126/science.1059188
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Spermiogenesis Deficiency in Mice Lacking the Trf2 Gene

Di Zhang,1 Tarja-Leena Penttila,3 Patricia L. Morris,23 Martin Teichmann,1 Robert G. Roeder1*

The discovery of TATA-binding protein-related factors (TRFs) has suggested alternative mechanisms for gene-specific transcriptional regulation and raised interest in their biological functions. In contrast to recent observations of an embryonic lethal phenotype for TRF2 inactivation in Caenorhabditis elegans and Xenopus laevis, we found that Trf2-deficient mice are viable. However, Trf2-/- mice are sterile because of a severe defect in spermiogenesis. Postmeiotic round spermatids advance at most to step 7 of differentiation but fail to progress to the elongated form, and gene-specific transcription deficiencies were identified. We speculate that mammals may have evolved more specialized TRF2 functions in the testis that involve transcriptional regulation of genes essential for spermiogenesis.

1 Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
2 The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA.
3 Population Council, New York, NY 10021, USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: roeder{at}rockvax.rockefeller.edu

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