Cell- and Stage-Specific Expression of the Murine nm23-M5 Gene during Late Spermatogenesis and Spermiogenesis

  • Hwang Gyu-Chan (Dept. of Dairy Science, Division of Applied Life Science, Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • Ok Do-Won (Dept. of Dairy Science, Division of Applied Life Science, Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • Lee Mi-Suk (Dept. of Dairy Science, Division of Applied Life Science, Gyeongsang National University) ;
  • Kim Jin-Hoe (Dept. of Dairy Science, Division of Applied Life Science, Gyeongsang National University)
  • 발행 : 2002.06.01

초록

Nucleoside diphosphate kinases (NDPKs) are conserved through evolution and have been shown to be involved in various biological phenomena. By functional screening in yeast, we identified a new member of the NDPK family, ㎚23-M5, which encodes a 211-amino acid protein with 86% identify to the human homolog, ㎚23-H5. Northern blot analysis reveals that ㎚23-M5 encodes two transcripts of 0.8 and 0.7 kb, which are highly and specifically expressed in adult testis. Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction analysis shows that nm23-M5 first appears in pachytene spermatocytes and increase chain reaction in abundance through subsequent stages. (omitted)

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