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Muroňová J, Kherraf ZE, Giordani E, Lambert E, Eckert S, Cazin C, Amiri-Yekta A, Court M, Chevalier G, Martinez G, Neirijnck Y, Kühne F, Wehrli L, Klena N, Hamel V, De Macedo L, Escoffier J, Guichard P, Coutton C, Mustapha SFB, Kharouf M, Bouin AP, Zouari R, Thierry-Mieg N, Nef S, Geimer S, Loeuillet C, Ray PF, Arnoult C. Lack of CCDC146, a ubiquitous centriole and microtubule-associated protein, leads to non-syndromic male infertility in human and mouse. eLife 2024; 12:RP86845. [PMID: 38441556 PMCID: PMC10942651 DOI: 10.7554/elife.86845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2024] Open
Abstract
From a cohort of 167 infertile patients suffering from multiple morphological abnormalities of the flagellum (MMAF), pathogenic bi-allelic mutations were identified in the CCDC146 gene. In somatic cells, CCDC146 is located at the centrosome and at multiple microtubule-related organelles during mitotic division, suggesting that it is a microtubule-associated protein (MAP). To decipher the molecular pathogenesis of infertility associated with CCDC146 mutations, a Ccdc146 knock-out (KO) mouse line was created. KO male mice were infertile, and sperm exhibited a phenotype identical to CCDC146 mutated patients. CCDC146 expression starts during late spermiogenesis. In the spermatozoon, the protein is conserved but is not localized to centrioles, unlike in somatic cells, rather it is present in the axoneme at the level of microtubule doublets. Expansion microscopy associated with the use of the detergent sarkosyl to solubilize microtubule doublets suggests that the protein may be a microtubule inner protein (MIP). At the subcellular level, the absence of CCDC146 impacted all microtubule-based organelles such as the manchette, the head-tail coupling apparatus (HTCA), and the axoneme. Through this study, a new genetic cause of infertility and a new factor in the formation and/or structure of the sperm axoneme were characterized.
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- Jana Muroňová
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
- UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Cell Biology/ Electron Microscopy, University of BayreuthBayreuthGermany
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
- UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECRTehranIslamic Republic of Iran
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
- UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Hôpital Couple-Enfant, CHU Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical SchoolGenevaSwitzerland
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical SchoolGenevaSwitzerland
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical SchoolGenevaSwitzerland
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- University of Geneva, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Sciences IIIGenevaSwitzerland
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- University of Geneva, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Sciences IIIGenevaSwitzerland
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- University of Geneva, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Sciences IIIGenevaSwitzerland
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
- UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Hôpital Couple-Enfant, CHU Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain NordTunisTunisia
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain NordTunisTunisia
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- Laboratoire TIMC/MAGe, CNRS UMR 5525, Pavillon Taillefer, Faculté de MedecineLa TroncheFrance
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical SchoolGenevaSwitzerland
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- Cell Biology/ Electron Microscopy, University of BayreuthBayreuthGermany
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
- UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), INSERM 1209GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), CNRS UMR 5309GrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Université Grenoble AlpesGrenobleFrance
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Kherraf ZE, Barbotin AL, Martinez G, Mazet A, Cazin C, Coutton C, Arnoult C, Thierry-Mieg N, Rives N, Rives-Feraille A, Ray PF. A splice donor variant of GAS8 induces structural disorganization of the axoneme in sperm flagella and leads to nonsyndromic male infertility. Clin Genet 2024; 105:220-225. [PMID: 37950557 DOI: 10.1111/cge.14450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Revised: 10/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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Motile cilia and flagella are closely related organelles structured around a highly conserved axoneme whose formation and maintenance involve proteins from hundreds of genes. Defects in many of these genes have been described to induce primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) mainly characterized by chronic respiratory infections, situs inversus and/or infertility. In men, cilia/flagella-related infertility is usually caused by asthenozoospermia due to multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF). Here, we investigated a cohort of 196 infertile men displaying a typical MMAF phenotype without any other PCD symptoms. Analysis of WES data identified a single case carrying a deleterious homozygous GAS8 variant altering a splice donor consensus site. This gene, also known as DRC4, encodes a subunit of the Nexin-Dynein Regulatory Complex (N-DRC), and has been already associated to male infertility and mild PCD. Confirming the deleterious effect of the candidate variant, GAS8 staining by immunofluorescence did not evidence any signal from the patient's spermatozoa whereas a strong signal was present along the whole flagella length in control cells. Concordant with its role in the N-DRC, transmission electron microscopy evidenced peripheral microtubule doublets misalignments. We confirm here the importance of GAS8 in the N-DRC and observed that its absence induces a typical MMAF phenotype not necessarily accompanied by other PCD symptoms.
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- Zine-Eddine Kherraf
- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility (GETI), Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- CHU Lille, Institut de Biologie de la Reproduction-Spermiologie-CECOS, Lille, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility (GETI), Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility (GETI), Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility (GETI), Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility (GETI), Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility (GETI), Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Team Adrenal and Gonadal Pathophysiology, Inserm, U1239 NorDIC, University Rouen Normandie, Rouen, France
- Reproductive Biology Laboratory-CECOS, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
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- Team Adrenal and Gonadal Pathophysiology, Inserm, U1239 NorDIC, University Rouen Normandie, Rouen, France
- Reproductive Biology Laboratory-CECOS, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility (GETI), Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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Dacheux D, Martinez G, Broster Reix CE, Beurois J, Lores P, Tounkara M, Dupuy JW, Robinson DR, Loeuillet C, Lambert E, Wehbe Z, Escoffier J, Amiri-Yekta A, Daneshipour A, Hosseini SH, Zouari R, Mustapha SFB, Halouani L, Jiang X, Shen Y, Liu C, Thierry-Mieg N, Septier A, Bidart M, Satre V, Cazin C, Kherraf ZE, Arnoult C, Ray PF, Toure A, Bonhivers M, Coutton C. Novel axonemal protein ZMYND12 interacts with TTC29 and DNAH1, and is required for male fertility and flagellum function. eLife 2023; 12:RP87698. [PMID: 37934199 PMCID: PMC10629824 DOI: 10.7554/elife.87698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Male infertility is common and complex, presenting a wide range of heterogeneous phenotypes. Although about 50% of cases are estimated to have a genetic component, the underlying cause often remains undetermined. Here, from whole-exome sequencing on samples from 168 infertile men with asthenoteratozoospermia due to severe sperm flagellum, we identified homozygous ZMYND12 variants in four unrelated patients. In sperm cells from these individuals, immunofluorescence revealed altered localization of DNAH1, DNALI1, WDR66, and TTC29. Axonemal localization of ZMYND12 ortholog TbTAX-1 was confirmed using the Trypanosoma brucei model. RNAi knock-down of TbTAX-1 dramatically affected flagellar motility, with a phenotype similar to the sperm from men bearing homozygous ZMYND12 variants. Co-immunoprecipitation and ultrastructure expansion microscopy in T. brucei revealed TbTAX-1 to form a complex with TTC29. Comparative proteomics with samples from Trypanosoma and Ttc29 KO mice identified a third member of this complex: DNAH1. The data presented revealed that ZMYND12 is part of the same axonemal complex as TTC29 and DNAH1, which is critical for flagellum function and assembly in humans, and Trypanosoma. ZMYND12 is thus a new asthenoteratozoospermia-associated gene, bi-allelic variants of which cause severe flagellum malformations and primary male infertility.
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- Denis Dacheux
- University of Bordeaux, CNRSBordeauxFrance
- Bordeaux INP, Microbiologie Fondamentale et PathogénicitéBordeauxFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
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- Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR 8104, Université Paris CiteParisFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECRTehranIslamic Republic of Iran
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECRTehranIslamic Republic of Iran
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- Department of Andrology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECRTehranIslamic Republic of Iran
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain NordTunisTunisia
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain NordTunisTunisia
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- Human Sperm Bank, West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan UniversitySichuanChina
- NHC Key Laboratory of Chronobiology, Sichuan UniversitySichuanChina
- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children (Sichuan University), Ministry of EducationSichuanChina
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Chronobiology, Sichuan UniversitySichuanChina
- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children (Sichuan University), Ministry of EducationSichuanChina
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan UniversityFudanChina
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
- CHU Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire: Maladies Héréditaires et OncologieGrenobleFrance
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- CHU Grenoble-Alpes, UM de Génétique ChromosomiqueGrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
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- CHU Grenoble-Alpes, UM de Génétique ChromosomiqueGrenobleFrance
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
- CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPIGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
- CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPIGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
- CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPIGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Physiology and Pathophysiology of Sperm cellsGrenobleFrance
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of InfertilityGrenobleFrance
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Duong LT, Petit S, Kerner S, Clerc MM, Arnoult C, Nowwarote N, Osathanon T, Fournier BPJ, Isaac J, Ferré FC. Role of periosteum during healing of alveolar critical size bone defects in the mandible: a pilot study. Clin Oral Investig 2023; 27:4541-4552. [PMID: 37261496 DOI: 10.1007/s00784-023-05079-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Minipigs present advantages for studying oral bone regeneration; however, standardized critical size defects (CSD) for alveolar bone have not been validated yet. The objectives of this study are to develop a CSD in the mandibular alveolar bone in Aachen minipigs and to further investigate the specific role of periosteum. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three female Aachen minipigs aged 17, 24, and 84 months were used. For each minipig, a split-mouth design was performed: an osteotomy (2 cm height × 2.5 cm length) was performed; the periosteum was preserved on the left side and removed on the right side. Macroscopic, cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), microcomputed tomography (µCT), and histological analyses were performed to evaluate the bone defects and bone healing. RESULTS In both groups, spontaneous healing was insufficient to restore initial bone volume. The macroscopic pictures and the CBCT results showed a larger bone defect without periosteum. µCT results revealed that BMD, BV/TV, and Tb.Th were significantly lower without periosteum. The histological analyses showed (i) an increased osteoid apposition in the crestal area when periosteum was removed and (ii) an ossification process in the mandibular canal area in response to the surgical that seemed to increase when periosteum was removed. CONCLUSIONS A robust model of CSD model was developed in the alveolar bone of minipigs that mimics human mandibular bone defects. This model allows to further investigate the bone healing process and potential factors impacting healing such as periosteum. CLINICAL RELEVANCE This model may be relevant for testing different bone reconstruction strategies for preclinical investigations.
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- Lucas T Duong
- Centre de Recherche Des Cordeliers, UMRS 1138, Molecular Oral Pathophysiology, Université Paris Cité, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Oral Surgery, Dental Faculty, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Oral Surgery Department, Charles Foix Hospital, AP-HP, Ivry-Sur-Seine, France
- Department of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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- Centre de Recherche Des Cordeliers, UMRS 1138, Molecular Oral Pathophysiology, Université Paris Cité, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Oral Biology, Dental Faculty, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Centre de Recherche Des Cordeliers, UMRS 1138, Molecular Oral Pathophysiology, Université Paris Cité, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Oral Biology, Dental Faculty, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Department of Periodontology, Dental Faculty, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Department of Periodontics, Loma Linda University School of Dentistry, Loma Linda, CA, USA
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- Centre de Recherche Des Cordeliers, UMRS 1138, Molecular Oral Pathophysiology, Université Paris Cité, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Periodontology, Dental Faculty, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Centre de Recherche Des Cordeliers, UMRS 1138, Molecular Oral Pathophysiology, Université Paris Cité, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Oral Biology, Dental Faculty, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Dental Stem Cell Biology Research Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
- Center of Excellence for Regenerative Dentistry and Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, 34 Henri Dunant Rd. Pathumwan, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
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- Centre de Recherche Des Cordeliers, UMRS 1138, Molecular Oral Pathophysiology, Université Paris Cité, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Oral Biology, Dental Faculty, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Reference Center for Oral and Dental Rare Diseases, ORARES, Odontology Department, Rothschild Hospital, APHP, Paris, France
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- Centre de Recherche Des Cordeliers, UMRS 1138, Molecular Oral Pathophysiology, Université Paris Cité, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- Department of Oral Biology, Dental Faculty, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Centre de Recherche Des Cordeliers, UMRS 1138, Molecular Oral Pathophysiology, Université Paris Cité, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
- Department of Oral Surgery, Dental Faculty, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
- Department of Oral Biology, Dental Faculty, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.
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Vautier A, Bourges JL, Gabison E, Chaventre F, Lefevre S, Toubeau D, Arnoult C, Albou-Ganem C, Boyer O, Muraine M. An Efficient Technique for the Long-term Preservation of SMILE Lenticules Using Desiccation. J Refract Surg 2023; 39:491-498. [PMID: 37449510 DOI: 10.3928/1081597x-20230609-01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE To evaluate a desiccation protocol for the long-term preservation of human small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) lenticules and to study their integration in an in vivo rabbit model. METHODS Lenticules were retrieved after SMILE procedures in patients, then desiccated according to a novel protocol. Histologic and electron microscopic analyses were performed. Six rabbit eyes received grafts with an inlay technique, which consisted of inserting a desiccated lenticule into a stromal pocket. Rabbits were killed at different times between 6 and 24 weeks. Rabbit corneas were analyzed using optical coherence tomography, histology, and DAPI staining. RESULTS Microscopic analysis of desiccated lenticules showed a preserved stromal architecture after rehydration. A decellularization of the lenticules after desiccation was observed without any chemical treatment. All rabbit corneas remained clear after grafting human lenticules and no rejection occurred. Optical coherence tomography showed regular lenticular implantation and no decrease in lenticule thickness. Histologic analysis showed no inflammatory infiltration around lenticules and no nuclear material inside lenticules after 6 months. CONCLUSIONS A favorable integration of desiccated human SMILE lenticules in rabbit corneas was observed. The refractive issue of lenticular implantation must be investigated next. Clinical trials are needed to evaluate the use of desiccated SMILE lenticules to treat hyperopia or keratoconus in humans. [J Refract Surg. 2023;39(7):491-498.].
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Coudert A, Cazin C, Amiri-Yekta A, Ben Mustapha SF, Zouari R, Bessonat J, Zoghmar A, Clergeau A, Metzler-Guillemain C, Triki C, Lejeune H, Sermondade N, Pipiras E, Prisant N, Cedrin I, Koscinski I, Keskes L, Lestrade F, Hesters L, Rives N, Dorphin B, Guichet A, Patrat C, Dulioust E, Feraille A, Robert F, Brouillet S, Morel F, Perrin A, Rougier N, Bieth E, Sorlin A, Siffroi JP, Ben Khelifa M, Boiterelle F, Hennebicq S, Satre V, Arnoult C, Coutton C, Barbotin AL, Thierry-Mieg N, Kherraf ZE, Ray PF. Genetic causes of macrozoospermia and proposal for an optimized genetic diagnosis strategy based on sperm parameters. J Genet Genomics 2023:S1673-8527(23)00094-2. [PMID: 37116580 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2023.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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- Alicia Coudert
- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility team, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, 38000, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility team, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, 38000, France
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility team, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, 38000, France; Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003 Tunis, Tunisia
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- CHU Grenobles Alpes, UF de Biologie de la Procréation, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Reproduction Sciences and Surgery Clinique, Ibn Rochd, Constantine, Algeria
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- CHU Caen, CECOS de Caen, Département de Biologie, Unité de Biologie de la Reproduction, 14033 Caen, France
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- Assistance-Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Pôle Femmes-Parents-Enfants, Centre Clinico-biologique AMP-CECOS, Marseille, France and Aix Marseille Univ, INSERM, MMG, UMR 1251, Marseille, France
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- Clinique Hannibal, Centre d'AMP, les berges du lac, 1053 Tunis, Tunisia
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- Reproductive Medicine Department, Hospices Civil de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Hôpital Jean Verdier, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Paris, France
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- Service de Médecine de la Reproduction, CHU Jean Verdier, Paris, France
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- CHR Metz-Thionville, Service d'Assistance Médicale à la Procréation, 57530 Ars-Laquenexy, France
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- Laboratoire de Fécondation in vitro, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, France
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, Inserm U1239, NorDIC, Adrenal and Gonadal Pathophysiology, Reproductive Biology Laboratory-CECOS, Rouen University Hospital, 76031 Rouen cedex, France
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- CHAL Centre Hospitalier Alpes Léman, Centre AMP74, 74130 Contamine-sur-Arve
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- CHU Angers, Service de Génétique, 49933 Angers, INSERM U1083 France
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- Service de Biologie de la Reproduction - CECOS Hopital Cochin, 74014, Paris
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- Service de Biologie de la Reproduction - CECOS Hopital Cochin, 74014, Paris
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, Inserm U1239, NorDIC, Adrenal and Gonadal Pathophysiology, Reproductive Biology Laboratory-CECOS, Rouen University Hospital, 76031 Rouen cedex, France
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- IRH Médicentre, Clinique du Val d'Ouest, 39 chemin de la Vernique, 69 130 Ecully, France
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- CHU Arnaud De Villeneuve, Biologie de la Reproduction, 34000 Montpellier, France
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- Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Brest, EFS, UMR1078, GGB, Brest, France; Service de Génétique Médicale et Biologie de la Reproduction, CHU de Brest, Brest, France
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- Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Brest, EFS, UMR1078, GGB, Brest, France; Service de Génétique Médicale et Biologie de la Reproduction, CHU de Brest, Brest, France
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- CHRU Nîmes, Laboratoire d'Assistance Médicale à la Procréation, 30029 Nîmes, France
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- CHU Toulouse, Service de Génétique, 31059 Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire national de santé, 1 Rue Louis Rech, L-3555 Dudelange, Luxembourg
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM, UMRS_933, AP-HP, Hôpital Armand Trousseau, F-75012 Paris, France
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- Service d'assistance médicale à la procréation-Biologie de la reproduction, hôpital de Poissy, 78300 Poissy, France; EA 7404-GIG, UFR des sciences de la santé Simone-Veil, université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris Saclay, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility team, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenobles Alpes, UF de Biologie de la Procréation, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility team, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility team, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility team, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- CHU Lille, Hôpital Jeanne De Flandre, Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction-Spermiologie, 59037 Lille, France
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility team, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, 38000, France
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility team, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, 38000, France.
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Martinez G, Metzler-Guillemain C, Cazin C, Kherraf ZE, Paulmyer-Lacroix O, Arnoult C, Ray PF, Coutton C. Expanding the sperm phenotype caused by mutations in SPATA20: A novel splicing mutation in an infertile patient with partial globozoospermia. Clin Genet 2022; 103:612-614. [PMID: 36537262 DOI: 10.1111/cge.14284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2022] [Revised: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Guillaume Martinez
- Laboratoire de Génétique Chromosomique, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Assistance-Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Pôle Femmes-Parents-Enfants, Centre Clinico-biologique AMP-CECOS, Marseille, France.,INSERM, MMG, UMR 1251, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- Assistance-Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Pôle Femmes-Parents-Enfants, Centre Clinico-biologique AMP-CECOS, Marseille, France.,Department of Histology Embryology, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Génétique Chromosomique, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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Fontaine E, Papin C, Martinez G, Le Gras S, Nahed RA, Héry P, Buchou T, Ouararhni K, Favier B, Gautier T, Sabir JSM, Gerard M, Bednar J, Arnoult C, Dimitrov S, Hamiche A. Dual role of histone variant H3.3B in spermatogenesis: positive regulation of piRNA transcription and implication in X-chromosome inactivation. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 50:7350-7366. [PMID: 35766398 PMCID: PMC9303386 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Revised: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The histone variant H3.3 is encoded by two distinct genes, H3f3a and H3f3b, exhibiting identical amino-acid sequence. H3.3 is required for spermatogenesis, but the molecular mechanism of its spermatogenic function remains obscure. Here, we have studied the role of each one of H3.3A and H3.3B proteins in spermatogenesis. We have generated transgenic conditional knock-out/knock-in (cKO/KI) epitope-tagged FLAG-FLAG-HA-H3.3B (H3.3BHA) and FLAG-FLAG-HA-H3.3A (H3.3AHA) mouse lines. We show that H3.3B, but not H3.3A, is required for spermatogenesis and male fertility. Analysis of the molecular mechanism unveils that the absence of H3.3B led to alterations in the meiotic/post-meiotic transition. Genome-wide RNA-seq reveals that the depletion of H3.3B in meiotic cells is associated with increased expression of the whole sex X and Y chromosomes as well as of both RLTR10B and RLTR10B2 retrotransposons. In contrast, the absence of H3.3B resulted in down-regulation of the expression of piRNA clusters. ChIP-seq experiments uncover that RLTR10B and RLTR10B2 retrotransposons, the whole sex chromosomes and the piRNA clusters are markedly enriched of H3.3. Taken together, our data dissect the molecular mechanism of H3.3B functions during spermatogenesis and demonstrate that H3.3B, depending on its chromatin localization, is involved in either up-regulation or down-regulation of expression of defined large chromatin regions.
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- Emeline Fontaine
- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5309, INSERM U1209, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Site Sante' - Allée des Alpes, La Tronche 38700, France
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- Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC)/Université de Strasbourg/ CNRS/INSERM, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5309, INSERM U1209, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Site Sante' - Allée des Alpes, La Tronche 38700, France
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- Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC)/Université de Strasbourg/ CNRS/INSERM, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5309, INSERM U1209, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Site Sante' - Allée des Alpes, La Tronche 38700, France
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5309, INSERM U1209, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Site Sante' - Allée des Alpes, La Tronche 38700, France
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- Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC)/Université de Strasbourg/ CNRS/INSERM, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France
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- Université de Grenoble Alpes, Etablissement Français du Sang, EA 7408, BP35, 38701 La Tronche, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5309, INSERM U1209, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Site Sante' - Allée des Alpes, La Tronche 38700, France
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- Centre of Excellence in Bionanoscience Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91198, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5309, INSERM U1209, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Site Sante' - Allée des Alpes, La Tronche 38700, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5309, INSERM U1209, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Site Sante' - Allée des Alpes, La Tronche 38700, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5309, INSERM U1209, Institute for Advanced Biosciences (IAB), Site Sante' - Allée des Alpes, La Tronche 38700, France.,"Roumen Tsanev" Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.,Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, Dokuz Eylul University Health Campus, Izmir 35330, Turkey
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- Institut de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC)/Université de Strasbourg/ CNRS/INSERM, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France.,Centre of Excellence in Bionanoscience Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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Cardona Barberán A, Christodoulaki A, Goethals J, Thys V, Vanden Meerschaut F, Arnoult C, Stoop D, Boel A, Heindryckx B. P-238 Treatment options to overcome impaired fertilization and embryonic development caused by an oocyte-related deficiency in the Patl2-/- mouse model. Hum Reprod 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deac107.228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Study question
Can assisted oocyte activation (AOA) or spindle transfer (ST) overcome the lower fertilization and blastocyst rates observed in the Patl2-/- mouse model?
Summary answer
ST, but not AOA, has the potential to restore both normal fertilization and blastocyst rates in a mouse model with an oocyte-related deficiency.
What is known already
PATL2 is an RNA-transcriptional repressor involved in the regulation of maternal mRNAs during oocyte maturation. Mutations in PATL2 have been detected in patients with oocyte maturation arrest, reduced fertilization and embryo developmental arrest. Consequently, these patients are mostly referred to oocyte donation. Both AOA, inducing artificially calcium oscillations by calcium ionophores, and ST, replacing bad-quality oocyte cytoplasm with healthy cytoplasm, have been proposed to treat oocyte-related infertility. However, there is a lack of studies showing which oocyte-related infertility indications may benefit from which specific treatment. The Patl2-/- mouse model offers a unique opportunity to study the efficiency of these treatments.
Study design, size, duration
An experimental study using C57BL/6NTac-Patl2tm1a mice was conducted between April to December 2021. Breeding of heterozygous C57BL/6NTac-Patl2tm1a mice resulted in a total of 156 pups, from which 22 were homozygous C57BL/6NTac-Patl2tm1a ( Patl2-/-) females. Metaphase II (MII) oocytes were collected from Patl2-/- (test group) and Patl2+/+ (control group) females and used to evaluate different oocyte quality markers, as well as the efficiency of AOA and ST treatments to improve the oocyte-related subfertility observed in Patl2-/- mice.
Participants/materials, setting, methods
Four- to 12-week-old mice were subjected to ovarian hyperstimulation and oocyte collection, where oocyte maturation was assessed. Afterwards, MII oocytes were used to evaluate oocyte diameter, spindle abnormalities, activation rate (AR) and blastocyst rate (BR) after PIEZO-ICSI and calcium releasing capacity after SrCl2 exposure. Finally, Patl2-/- MII oocytes were treated with AOA, by direct exposure to SrCl2, or ST treatment, by transferring the Patl2-/- spindle to Patl2+/+ cytoplasm (previously enucleated) followed by SrCl2 exposure.
Main results and the role of chance
No difference in the number of cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) and mature MII oocytes was observed between 6 Patl2-/- mice (128 MII/159 COCs) and 5 Patl2+/+ mice (108 MII/132 COCs). However, Patl2-/- MII oocytes showed a significantly lower cytoplasm diameter (68,11 ± 2,25, n = 79) than Patl2+/+ oocytes (75,19 ± 2,09, n = 77, p-value<0,001), suggesting that Patl2 affects oocyte growth but does not seem to affect oocyte maturation. Nuclear maturity was not compromised either, as a similar percentage of oocytes with normal spindle was observed in Patl2-/- (48,4%, 15/31) and Patl2+/+ MII oocytes (50%, 18/36). Activation and blastocyst rates after PIEZO-ICSI were lower in Patl2-/- (AR = 45,5%, 5/11 and BR = 20,0%, 1/5) than in Patl2+/+(AR = 75,0%, 21/28 and BR = 52,4%, 11/21).
In addition, total calcium released during oocyte activation after SrCl2 exposure was not different between Patl2-/- (AxF=6,88 AU, n = 30) and Patl2+/+ MII oocytes (AxF=5,04 AU, n = 28, p-value=0,087). In line with these results, AOA treatment did not improve activation and blastocyst rates in Patl2-/- oocytes (AR = 66,7%, 44/66 and BR = 45,5%, 20/44) compared to Patl2+/+ oocytes (AR = 96,5%, 110/114 and BR = 79,1%, 87/110, p-value<0,001). Nonetheless, when performing ST using Patl2-/- as spindle donors and Patl2+/+ as cytoplasm recipients, activation (8/8, 100,0%) and blastocyst rate (6/8, 75,0%) were restored to normal values.
Limitations, reasons for caution
This study describes preliminary results and is limited by its small sample size. In addition, we did not identify an increased number of immature oocytes and spindle abnormalities in Patl2-/- female mice in contrast to previously published reports.
Wider implications of the findings
ST could be offered to treat PATL2- related female-infertility caused by a cytoplasmic deficiency, to increase both fertilization and blastocyst rates. AOA would not be beneficial for these patients as calcium releasing capacity of Patl2-/- oocytes does not seem to be affected, suggesting a deficiency independent from calcium releasing machinery.
Trial registration number
Not applicable
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- Ghent University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine , Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine , Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine , Ghent, Belgium
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institute for Advanced Biosciences , Grenoble, France
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- Ghent University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine , Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine , Ghent, Belgium
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- Ghent University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine , Ghent, Belgium
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Martinez G, Coutton C, Loeuillet C, Cazin C, Muroňová J, Boguenet M, Lambert E, Dhellemmes M, Chevalier G, Hograindleur JP, Vilpreux C, Neirijnck Y, Kherraf ZE, Escoffier J, Nef S, Ray PF, Arnoult C. Oligogenic heterozygous inheritance of sperm abnormalities in mouse. eLife 2022; 11:75373. [PMID: 35451961 PMCID: PMC9071268 DOI: 10.7554/elife.75373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Male infertility is an important health concern that is expected to have a major genetic etiology. Although high-throughput sequencing has linked gene defects to more than 50% of rare and severe sperm anomalies, less than 20% of common and moderate forms are explained. We hypothesized that this low success rate could at least be partly due to oligogenic defects – the accumulation of several rare heterozygous variants in distinct, but functionally connected, genes. Here, we compared fertility and sperm parameters in male mice harboring one to four heterozygous truncating mutations of genes linked to multiple morphological anomalies of the flagellum (MMAF) syndrome. Results indicated progressively deteriorating sperm morphology and motility with increasing numbers of heterozygous mutations. This first evidence of oligogenic inheritance in failed spermatogenesis strongly suggests that oligogenic heterozygosity could explain a significant proportion of asthenoteratozoospermia cases. The findings presented pave the way to further studies in mice and man.
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Genève, Switzerland
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, University Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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Loeuillet C, Dhellemmes M, Cazin C, Kherraf ZE, Fourati Ben Mustapha S, Zouari R, Thierry-Mieg N, Arnoult C, Ray PF. A recurrent ZP1 variant is responsible for Oocyte Maturation Defect with degenerated oocytes in infertile females. Clin Genet 2022; 102:22-29. [PMID: 35460069 PMCID: PMC9327729 DOI: 10.1111/cge.14144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Revised: 04/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
A female factor is present in approximately 70% of couple infertility, often due to ovulatory disorders. In oocyte maturation defect (OMD), affected patients have a primary infertility with normal menstrual cycles but produce no oocyte, degenerated (atretic) or abnormal oocytes blocked at different stages of maturation. Four genes have so far been associated with OMD: PATL2, TUBB8, WEE2, and ZP1. In our initial study, 6 out of 23 OMD subjects were shown to carry the same PATL2 homozygous loss of function variant and one patient had a TUBB8 truncating variant. Here, we included four additional OMD patients and reanalyzed all 27 subjects. In addition to the seven patients with a previously identified defect, five carried the same deleterious homozygous ZP1 variant (c.1097G>A; p.Arg366Gln). All the oocytes from ZP1‐associated patients appeared shriveled and dark indicating that the abnormal ZP1 protein induced oocyte death and degeneration. Overall ZP1‐associated patients had degenerated or absent oocytes contrary to PATL2‐associated subjects who had immature oocytes blocked mainly at the germinal vesicle stage. In this cohort of North African OMD patients, whole exome sequencing permitted to diagnose 44% of the patients studied and to identify a new frequent ZP1 variant.
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- Corinne Loeuillet
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France.,Laboratoire Eurofins Biomnis, Département de Génétique Moléculaire, Lyon, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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Pierré W, Hervé L, Paviolo C, Mandula O, Remondiere V, Morales S, Grudinin S, Ray PF, Dhellemmes M, Arnoult C, Allier C. 3D time-lapse imaging of a mouse embryo using intensity diffraction tomography embedded inside a deep learning framework. Appl Opt 2022; 61:3337-3348. [PMID: 35471429 DOI: 10.1364/ao.453910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
We present a compact 3D diffractive microscope that can be inserted directly in a cell incubator for long-term observation of developing organisms. Our setup is particularly simple and robust, since it does not include any moving parts and is compatible with commercial cell culture containers. It has been designed to image large specimens (>100×100×100µm3) with subcellular resolution. The sample's optical properties [refractive index (RI) and absorption] are reconstructed in 3D from intensity-only images recorded with different illumination angles produced by an LED array. The reconstruction is performed using the beam propagation method embedded inside a deep-learning network where the layers encode the optical properties of the object. This deep neural network is trained for a given multiangle intensity acquisition. After training, the weights of the neural network deliver the 3D distribution of the optical properties of the sample. The effect of spherical aberrations due to the sample holder/air interfaces are taken into account in the forward model. Using this approach, we performed time-lapse 3D imaging of preimplantation mouse embryos over six days. Images of embryos from a single cell (low-scattering regime) to the blastocyst stage (highly scattering regime) were successfully reconstructed. Due to its subcellular resolution, our system can provide quantitative information on the embryos' development and viability. Hence, this technology opens what we believe to be novel opportunities for 3D label-free live-cell imaging of whole embryos or organoids over long observation times.
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Kherraf ZE, Cazin C, Bouker A, Fourati Ben Mustapha S, Hennebicq S, Septier A, Coutton C, Raymond L, Nouchy M, Thierry-Mieg N, Zouari R, Arnoult C, Ray PF. Whole-exome sequencing improves the diagnosis and care of men with non-obstructive azoospermia. Am J Hum Genet 2022; 109:508-517. [PMID: 35172124 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) is a severe and frequent cause of male infertility, often treated by testicular sperm extraction followed by intracytoplasmic sperm injection. The aim of this study is to improve the genetic diagnosis of NOA, by identifying new genes involved in human NOA and to better assess the chances of successful sperm extraction according to the individual's genotype. Exome sequencing was performed on 96 NOA-affected individuals negative for routine genetic tests. Bioinformatics analysis was limited to a panel of 151 genes selected as known causal or candidate genes for NOA. Only highly deleterious homozygous or hemizygous variants were retained as candidates. A likely causal defect was identified in 16 genes in a total of 22 individuals (23%). Six genes had not been described in man (DDX25, HENMT1, MCMDC2, MSH5, REC8, TDRKH) and 10 were previously reported (C14orf39, DMC1, FANCM, GCNA, HFM1, MCM8, MEIOB, PDHA2, TDRD9, TERB1). Seven individuals had defects in genes from piwi or DNA repair pathways, three in genes involved in post-meiotic maturation, and 12 in meiotic processes. Interestingly, all individuals with defects in meiotic genes had an unsuccessful sperm retrieval, indicating that genetic diagnosis prior to TESE could help identify individuals with low or null chances of successful sperm retrieval and thus avoid unsuccessful surgeries.
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- Zine-Eddine Kherraf
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble 38000, France; Laboratoire Eurofins Biomnis, Département de Génétique Moléculaire, 69 007 Lyon, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003 Tunis, Tunisia
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM laboratoire d'aide à la procréation-CECOS, 38 000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, UMR5525, TIMC, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire Eurofins Biomnis, Département de Génétique Moléculaire, 69 007 Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire Eurofins Biomnis, Département de Génétique Moléculaire, 69 007 Lyon, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003 Tunis, Tunisia
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble 38000, France.
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Vautier A, Chaventré F, Lefevre S, Toubeau D, Arnoult C, Albou‐Ganem C, Gabison E, Bourges JL, Boyer O, Muraine M. Development of desiccated stromal lenticules and study of their integration in vivo. Acta Ophthalmol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2022.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ray P, Kherraf ZE, Cazin C, Lestrade F, Muronova J, Coutton C, Arnoult C, Thierry-Mieg N. From azoospermia to macrozoospermia, a phenotypic continuum due to mutations in the ZMYND15 gene. Asian J Androl 2022; 24:243-247. [PMID: 35017390 PMCID: PMC9226687 DOI: 10.4103/aja202194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Cazin C, Neirijnck Y, Loeuillet C, Wehrli L, Kühne F, Lordey I, Mustapha SFB, Bouker A, Zouari R, Thierry-Mieg N, Nef S, Arnoult C, Ray PF, Kherraf ZE. Combined Use of Whole Exome Sequencing and CRISPR/Cas9 to Study the Etiology of Non-Obstructive Azoospermia: Demonstration of the Dispensable Role of the Testis-Specific Genes C1orf185 and CCT6B. Cells 2021; 11:cells11010118. [PMID: 35011680 PMCID: PMC8750304 DOI: 10.3390/cells11010118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The genetic landscape of male infertility is highly complex. It is estimated that at least 4000 genes are involved in human spermatogenesis, but only few have so far been extensively studied. In this study, we investigated by whole exome sequencing two cases of idiopathic non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) due to severe hypospermatogenesis. After variant filtering and prioritizing, we retained for each patient a homozygous loss-of-function (LoF) variant in a testis-specific gene, C1orf185 (c.250C>T; p.Gln84Ter) and CCT6B (c.615-2A>G), respectively. Both variants are rare according to the gnomAD database and absent from our local control cohort (n = 445). To verify the implication of these candidate genes in NOA, we used the CRISPR/Cas9 system to invalidate the mouse orthologs 4930522H14Rik and Cct6b and produced two knockout (KO) mouse lines. Sperm and testis parameters of homozygous KO adult male mice were analyzed and compared with those of wild-type animals. We showed that homozygous KO males were fertile and displayed normal sperm parameters and a functional spermatogenesis. Overall, these results demonstrate that not all genes highly and specifically expressed in the testes are essential for spermatogenesis, and in particular, we conclude that bi-allelic variants of C1orf185 and CCT6B are most likely not to be involved in NOA and male fertility.
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- Caroline Cazin
- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (C.L.); (C.A.); (P.F.R.)
- UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France;
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland; (Y.N.); (L.W.); (F.K.); (S.N.)
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (C.L.); (C.A.); (P.F.R.)
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland; (Y.N.); (L.W.); (F.K.); (S.N.)
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland; (Y.N.); (L.W.); (F.K.); (S.N.)
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- Centre d’Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia; (S.F.B.M.); (A.B.); (R.Z.)
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- Centre d’Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia; (S.F.B.M.); (A.B.); (R.Z.)
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- Centre d’Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia; (S.F.B.M.); (A.B.); (R.Z.)
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland; (Y.N.); (L.W.); (F.K.); (S.N.)
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (C.L.); (C.A.); (P.F.R.)
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (C.L.); (C.A.); (P.F.R.)
- UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France;
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (C.L.); (C.A.); (P.F.R.)
- UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +33-(0)4-7676-8303
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Muranishi Y, Parry L, Vachette-Dit-Martin M, Saez F, Coudy-Gandilhon C, Sauvanet P, Volle DH, Tournayre J, Bottari S, Carpentiero F, Martinez G, Muroňová J, Escoffier J, Bruhat A, Maurin AC, Averous J, Arnoult C, Fafournoux P, Jousse C. When idiopathic male infertility is rooted in maternal malnutrition during the perinatal period in mice. Biol Reprod 2021; 106:463-476. [PMID: 34875016 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioab222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Infertility represents a growing burden worldwide, with one in seven couples presenting difficulties conceiving. Amongst these, 10-15% of the men have idiopathic infertility that does not correlate with any defect in the classical sperm parameters measured. In the present study, we used a mouse model to investigate the effects of maternal undernutrition on fertility in male progeny. Our results indicate that mothers fed on a low protein diet during gestation and lactation produce male offspring with normal sperm morphology, concentration and motility but exhibiting an overall decrease of fertility when they reach adulthood. Particularly, in contrast to control, sperm from these offspring show a remarkable lower capacity to fertilize oocytes when copulation occurs early in the estrus cycle relative to ovulation, due to an altered sperm capacitation. Our data demonstrate for the first time that maternal nutritional stress can have long-term consequences on the reproductive health of male progeny by affecting sperm physiology, especially capacitation, with no observable impact on spermatogenesis and classical quantitative and qualitative sperm parameters. Moreover, our experimental model could be of major interest to study, explain, and ultimately treat certain categories of infertilities.
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- Yuki Muranishi
- Unité de Nutrition Humaine, INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR1019, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.,Department of Life and Food Sciences, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido 080-8555, Japan
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- Unité de Nutrition Humaine, INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR1019, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- GReD Institute, Université Clermont Auvergne, Inserm, CNRS, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Unité de Nutrition Humaine, INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR1019, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- UMR 1071 Inserm/Université Clermont Auvergne; USC-INRA 2018, Microbes, Intestin, Inflammation et Susceptibilité de l'Hôte (M2iSH), Clermont-Ferrand, France.,Service de chirurgie et hépatobiliaire, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Inserm U1103, CNRS UMR6293-Université Clermont Auvergne, Institute Genetic, Reproduction and Development, Team "Environment, Metabolism, Spermatogenesis and Pathophysiology & Inheritance", Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Unité de Nutrition Humaine, INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR1019, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, France.,Hôpital Couple-Enfant, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, France
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- Unité de Nutrition Humaine, INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR1019, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Unité de Nutrition Humaine, INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR1019, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Unité de Nutrition Humaine, INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR1019, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, France
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- Unité de Nutrition Humaine, INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR1019, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Unité de Nutrition Humaine, INRAE, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR1019, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Liu S, Zhang J, Kherraf ZE, Sun S, Zhang X, Cazin C, Coutton C, Zouari R, Zhao S, Hu F, Fourati Ben Mustapha S, Arnoult C, Ray PF, Liu M. CFAP61 is required for sperm flagellum formation and male fertility in human and mouse. Development 2021; 148:273455. [PMID: 34792097 DOI: 10.1242/dev.199805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Defects in the structure or motility of cilia and flagella may lead to severe diseases such as primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a multisystemic disorder with heterogeneous manifestations affecting primarily respiratory and reproductive functions. We report that CFAP61 is a conserved component of the calmodulin- and radial spoke-associated complex (CSC) of cilia. We find that a CFAP61 splice variant, c.143+5G>A, causes exon skipping/intron retention in human, inducing a multiple morphological abnormalities of the flagella (MMAF) phenotype. We generated Cfap61 knockout mice that recapitulate the infertility phenotype of the human CFAP61 mutation, but without other symptoms usually observed in PCD. We find that CFAP61 interacts with the CSC, radial spoke stalk and head. During early stages of Cfap61-/- spermatid development, the assembly of radial spoke components is impaired. As spermiogenesis progresses, the axoneme in Cfap61-/- cells becomes unstable and scatters, and the distribution of intraflagellar transport proteins is disrupted. This study reveals an organ-specific mechanism of axoneme stabilization that is related to male infertility.
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- Siyu Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, F-38000, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, F-38000, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, F-38000, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003 Tunis, Tunisia
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Animal Core Facility of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, F-38000, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China
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Shen Q, Martinez G, Liu H, Beurois J, Wu H, Amiri-Yekta A, Liang D, Kherraf ZE, Bidart M, Cazin C, Celse T, Satre V, Thierry-Mieg N, Whitfield M, Touré A, Song B, Lv M, Li K, Liu C, Tao F, He X, Zhang F, Arnoult C, Ray PF, Cao Y, Coutton C. Bi-allelic truncating variants in CFAP206 cause male infertility in human and mouse. Hum Genet 2021; 140:1367-1377. [PMID: 34255152 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-021-02313-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Spermatozoa are polarized cells with a head and a flagellum joined together by the connecting piece. Flagellum integrity is critical for normal sperm function, and flagellum defects consistently lead to male infertility. Multiple morphological abnormalities of the flagella (MMAF) is a distinct sperm phenotype consistently leading to male infertility due to a reduced or absent sperm motility associated with severe morphological and ultrastructural flagellum defects. Despite numerous genes recently described to be recurrently associated with MMAF, more than half of the cases analyzed remain unresolved, suggesting that many yet uncharacterized gene defects account for this phenotype. By performing a retrospective exome analysis of the unsolved cases from our initial cohort of 167 infertile men with a MMAF phenotype, we identified one individual carrying a homozygous frameshift variant in CFAP206, a gene encoding a microtubule-docking adapter for radial spoke and inner dynein arm. Immunostaining experiments in the patient's sperm cells demonstrated the absence of WDR66 and RSPH1 proteins suggesting severe radial spokes and calmodulin and spoke-associated complex defects. Using the CRISPR-Cas9 technique, we generated homozygous Cfap206 knockout (KO) mice which presented with male infertility due to functional, structural and ultrastructural sperm flagellum defects associated with a very low rate of embryo development using ICSI. Overall, we showed that CFAP206 is essential for normal sperm flagellum structure and function in human and mouse and that bi-allelic mutations in CFAP206 cause male infertility in man and mouse by inducing morphological and functional defects of the sperm flagellum that may also cause ICSI failures.
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- Qunshan Shen
- Reproductive Medicine Center, Human Sperm Bank, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China.,NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract (Anhui Medical University), Hefei, 230032, China.,Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei, 230032, China
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250012, China
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Human Sperm Bank, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China.,NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract (Anhui Medical University), Hefei, 230032, China.,Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei, 230032, China
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Human Sperm Bank, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China.,NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract (Anhui Medical University), Hefei, 230032, China.,Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei, 230032, China
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France.,Unité Médicale de Génétique Moléculaire: Maladies Héréditaires et Oncologie, Pôle Biologie, Institut de Biologie et de Pathologie, CHU Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS UMR 5525, TIMC-IMAG/BCM, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Human Sperm Bank, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China.,NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract (Anhui Medical University), Hefei, 230032, China.,Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei, 230032, China
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Human Sperm Bank, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China.,NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract (Anhui Medical University), Hefei, 230032, China.,Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei, 230032, China
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Human Sperm Bank, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China.,NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract (Anhui Medical University), Hefei, 230032, China.,Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei, 230032, China
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, NHC Key Laboratory of Reproduction Regulation (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200011, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract (Anhui Medical University), Hefei, 230032, China.,Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei, 230032, China
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Human Sperm Bank, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China.,NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract (Anhui Medical University), Hefei, 230032, China.,Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei, 230032, China
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, NHC Key Laboratory of Reproduction Regulation (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200011, China.,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Human Sperm Bank, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, 230022, China. .,NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract (Anhui Medical University), Hefei, 230032, China. .,Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei, 230032, China.
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France. .,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000, Grenoble, France. .,Laboratoire de Génétique Chromosomique, Hôpital Couple-Enfant, CHU de Grenoble, 38043, Grenoble, France.
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Guéguinou M, Felix R, Marionneau-Lambot S, Oullier T, Penna A, Kouba S, Gambade A, Fourbon Y, Ternant D, Arnoult C, Simon G, Bouchet AM, Chantôme A, Harnois T, Haelters JP, Jaffrès PA, Weber G, Bougnoux P, Carreaux F, Mignen O, Vandier C, Potier-Cartereau M. Synthetic alkyl-ether-lipid promotes TRPV2 channel trafficking trough PI3K/Akt-girdin axis in cancer cells and increases mammary tumour volume. Cell Calcium 2021; 97:102435. [PMID: 34167050 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2021.102435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Revised: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
The Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid type 2 (TRPV2) channel is highly selective for Ca2+ and can be activated by lipids, such as LysoPhosphatidylCholine (LPC). LPC analogues, such as the synthetic alkyl-ether-lipid edelfosine or the endogenous alkyl-ether-lipid Platelet Activating Factor (PAF), modulates ion channels in cancer cells. This opens the way to develop alkyl-ether-lipids for the modulation of TRPV2 in cancer. Here, we investigated the role of 2-Acetamido-2-Deoxy-l-O-Hexadecyl-rac-Glycero-3-PhosphatidylCholine (AD-HGPC), a new alkyl-ether-lipid (LPC analogue), on TRPV2 trafficking and its impact on Ca2+ -dependent cell migration. The effect of AD-HGPC on the TRPV2 channel and tumour process was further investigated using calcium imaging and an in vivo mouse model. Using molecular and pharmacological approaches, we dissected the mechanism implicated in alkyl-ether-lipids sensitive TRPV2 trafficking. We found that TRPV2 promotes constitutive Ca2+ entry, leading to migration of highly metastatic breast cancer cell lines through the PI3K/Akt-Girdin axis. AD-HGPC addresses the functional TRPV2 channel in the plasma membrane through Golgi stimulation and PI3K/Akt/Rac-dependent cytoskeletal reorganization, leading to constitutive Ca2+ entry and breast cancer cell migration (without affecting the development of metastasis), in a mouse model. We describe, for the first time, the biological role of a new alkyl-ether-lipid on TRPV2 channel trafficking in breast cancer cells and highlight the potential modulation of TRPV2 by alkyl-ether-lipids as a novel avenue for research in the treatment of metastatic cancer.
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- Maxime Guéguinou
- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France; PATCH Team, EA 7501 GICC, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- Inserm UMR 1235 TENS, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Nantes, F-44035, France
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- STIM Team, ERL CNRS 7349, UFR SFA Pole Biologie Santé, Université de Poitiers, F-86073, France
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- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- PATCH Team, EA 7501 GICC, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- PATCH Team, EA 7501 GICC, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- Univ. Brest, CNRS, CEMCA UMR 6521, 6 Avenue Victor Le Gorgeu, Brest, F-29238, France
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- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- STIM Team, ERL CNRS 7349, UFR SFA Pole Biologie Santé, Université de Poitiers, F-86073, France
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- Univ. Brest, CNRS, CEMCA UMR 6521, 6 Avenue Victor Le Gorgeu, Brest, F-29238, France
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- Univ. Brest, CNRS, CEMCA UMR 6521, 6 Avenue Victor Le Gorgeu, Brest, F-29238, France
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- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- UMR CNRS 6226, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, Université de Rennes, F-35700, France
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- Inserm UMR 1227 Immunothérapies et Pathologies Lymphocytaires B, CHU Morvan, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, F-29609, France
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- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France
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- Inserm UMR 1069, Nutrition Croissance Cancer, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Tours, F-37032, France.
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Arafah K, Lopez F, Cazin C, Kherraf ZE, Tassistro V, Loundou A, Arnoult C, Thierry-Mieg N, Bulet P, Guichaoua MR, Ray PF. Defect in the nuclear pore membrane glycoprotein 210-like gene is associated with extreme uncondensed sperm nuclear chromatin and male infertility: a case report. Hum Reprod 2021; 36:693-701. [PMID: 33332558 DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deaa329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Revised: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
After the two meiotic divisions, haploid round spermatids undergo dramatic changes to become mature spermatozoa. One of the main transformations consists of compacting the cell nucleus to confer the sperm its remarkable hydrodynamic property and to protect its DNA from the oxidative stress it will encounter during its reproductive journey. Here, we studied an infertile subject with low sperm count, poor motility and highly abnormal spermatozoa with strikingly large heads due to highly uncondensed nuclear sperm DNA. Whole-exome sequencing was performed on the subject's DNA to identify the genetic defect responsible for this severe sperm anomaly. Bioinformatics analysis of exome sequence data uncovered a homozygous loss of function variant, ENST00000368559.7:c.718-1G>A, altering a consensus splice site expected to prevent the synthesis of the nucleoporin 210 like (NUP210L) protein. High-resolution mass spectrometry of sperm protein extracts did not reveal any NUP210L peptide sequence in the patient's sperm, contrary to what was observed in control donors, thus confirming the absence of NUP210L in the patient's sperm. Interestingly, homozygous Nup210l knock-out mice have been shown to be infertile due to a reduced sperm count, a high proportion of round-headed sperm, other head and flagella defects and a poor motility. NUP210L is almost exclusively expressed in the testis and sequence analogy suggests that it encodes a nuclear pore membrane glycoprotein. The protein might be crucial to regulate nuclear trafficking during and/or before spermiogenesis, its absence potentially impeding adequate nuclear compaction by preventing the entry of histone variants/transition proteins/protamines into the nucleus and/or by preventing the adequate replacement of core histones. This work describes a new gene necessary for male fertility, potentially improving the efficiency of the genetic diagnosis of male infertility. The function of NUP210L still remains to be resolved and its future investigation will help to understand the complex mechanisms necessary for sperm compaction.
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, CR Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR5309, University Grenoble Alpes, Team « Génétique, Épigénétique et Thérapies de l'infertilité », Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, CR Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR5309, University Grenoble Alpes, Team « Génétique, Épigénétique et Thérapies de l'infertilité », Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, Avignon Université, CNRS, IRD, IMBE, Marseille, France
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- Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Methodological Assistance Unity for Clinical Research, Marseille, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, CR Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR5309, University Grenoble Alpes, Team « Génétique, Épigénétique et Thérapies de l'infertilité », Grenoble, France
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- Plateforme BioPark d'Archamps, Archamps, France.,Institute for Advanced Biosciences, CR Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR5309, University Grenoble Alpes, Team « Immunologie Analytique des Pathologies Chroniques », Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, CR Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR5309, University Grenoble Alpes, Team « Génétique, Épigénétique et Thérapies de l'infertilité », Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble 38000, France
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Lorès P, Kherraf ZE, Amiri-Yekta A, Whitfield M, Daneshipour A, Stouvenel L, Cazin C, Cavarocchi E, Coutton C, Llabador MA, Arnoult C, Thierry-Mieg N, Ferreux L, Patrat C, Hosseini SH, Mustapha SFB, Zouari R, Dulioust E, Ray PF, Touré A. Correction to: A missense mutation in IFT74, encoding for an essential component for intraflagellar transport of Tubulin, causes asthenozoospermia and male infertility without clinical signs of Bardet-Biedl syndrome. Hum Genet 2021; 140:1045. [PMID: 33770252 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-021-02278-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Patrick Lorès
- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Nord Val de Seine, Assistante Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75018, Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie, Biologie de la Reproduction, CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie, Biologie de la Reproduction, CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75014, Paris, France
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- Department of Andrology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie, Biologie de la Reproduction, CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France.
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Le H, Arnoult C, Dé E, Schapman D, Galas L, Le Cerf D, Karakasyan C. Antibody-Conjugated Nanocarriers for Targeted Antibiotic Delivery: Application in the Treatment of Bacterial Biofilms. Biomacromolecules 2021; 22:1639-1653. [PMID: 33709706 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Conventional antibiotic treatment is in most cases insufficient to eradicate biofilm-related infections, resulting in high risk of treatment failure and recurrent infections. Recent studies have shown that novel methods of antibiotic delivery can improve clinical outcomes and reduce the emergence of antibiotic resistance. The objectives of this work were to develop and evaluate a targeting nanocarrier system that enables effective delivery of antimicrobial drugs to Staphylococcus aureus, a commonly virulent human pathogen. For this purpose, we first prepared a formulation of polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) suitable for encapsulation and sustained release of antibiotics. A specific antibody against S. aureus was used as a targeting ligand and was covalently immobilized onto the surface of nanoparticulate materials. It was demonstrated that the targeting NPs preferentially bound S. aureus cells and presented an elevated accumulation in the S. aureus biofilm. Compared to free-form antibiotic, the antibiotic-loaded targeting NPs significantly enhanced in vitro bactericidal activity against S. aureus both in planktonic and biofilm forms. Using a mouse infection model, we observed improved therapeutic efficacy of these antibiotic-loaded NPs after a single intravenous administration. Taken together, our studies show that the targeting nanoparticulate system could be a promising strategy to enhance the biodistribution of antibiotics and thereby improve their efficacy.
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- Hung Le
- Normandie Université, UNIROUEN, INSA Rouen, CNRS, PBS, 76000 Rouen, France
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- Normandie Université, UNIROUEN, INSA Rouen, CNRS, PBS, 76000 Rouen, France
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- Normandie Université, UNIROUEN, INSA Rouen, CNRS, PBS, 76000 Rouen, France
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- Normandie Université, UNIROUEN, INSERM, PRIMACEN, 76000 Rouen, France
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- Normandie Université, UNIROUEN, INSERM, PRIMACEN, 76000 Rouen, France
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- Normandie Université, UNIROUEN, INSA Rouen, CNRS, PBS, 76000 Rouen, France
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- Normandie Université, UNIROUEN, INSA Rouen, CNRS, PBS, 76000 Rouen, France
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Lorès P, Kherraf ZE, Amiri-Yekta A, Whitfield M, Daneshipour A, Stouvenel L, Cazin C, Cavarocchi E, Coutton C, Llabador MA, Arnoult C, Thierry-Mieg N, Ferreux L, Patrat C, Hosseini SH, Mustapha SFB, Zouari R, Dulioust E, Ray PF, Touré A. A missense mutation in IFT74, encoding for an essential component for intraflagellar transport of Tubulin, causes asthenozoospermia and male infertility without clinical signs of Bardet-Biedl syndrome. Hum Genet 2021; 140:1031-1043. [PMID: 33689014 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-021-02270-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Cilia and flagella are formed around an evolutionary conserved microtubule-based axoneme and are required for fluid and mucus clearance, tissue homeostasis, cell differentiation and movement. The formation and maintenance of cilia and flagella require bidirectional transit of proteins along the axonemal microtubules, a process called intraflagellar transport (IFT). In humans, IFT defects contribute to a large group of systemic diseases, called ciliopathies, which often display overlapping phenotypes. By performing exome sequencing of a cohort of 167 non-syndromic infertile men displaying multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagellum (MMAF) we identified two unrelated patients carrying a homozygous missense variant adjacent to a splice donor consensus site of IFT74 (c.256G > A;p.Gly86Ser). IFT74 encodes for a core component of the IFT machinery that is essential for the anterograde transport of tubulin. We demonstrate that this missense variant affects IFT74 mRNA splicing and induces the production of at least two distinct mutant proteins with abnormal subcellular localization along the sperm flagellum. Importantly, while IFT74 deficiency was previously implicated in two cases of Bardet-Biedl syndrome, a pleiotropic ciliopathy with variable expressivity, our data indicate that this missense mutation only results in primary male infertility due to MMAF, with no other clinical features. Taken together, our data indicate that the nature of the mutation adds a level of complexity to the clinical manifestations of ciliary dysfunction, thus contributing to the expanding phenotypical spectrum of ciliopathies.
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- Patrick Lorès
- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Nord Val de Seine, Assistante Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75018, Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie, Biologie de la Reproduction, CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie, Biologie de la Reproduction, CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75014, Paris, France
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- Department of Andrology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, 75014, Paris, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie, Biologie de la Reproduction, CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75014, Paris, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France.
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Cazin C, Boumerdassi Y, Martinez G, Fourati Ben Mustapha S, Whitfield M, Coutton C, Thierry-Mieg N, Di Pizio P, Rives N, Arnoult C, Touré A, Ray PF, Zouari R, Sifer C, Kherraf ZE. Identification and Characterization of the Most Common Genetic Variant Responsible for Acephalic Spermatozoa Syndrome in Men Originating from North Africa. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22042187. [PMID: 33671757 PMCID: PMC7927044 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22042187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Revised: 02/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Acephalic spermatozoa syndrome (ASS) is a rare but extremely severe type of teratozoospermia, defined by the presence of a majority of headless flagella and a minority of tail-less sperm heads in the ejaculate. Like the other severe monomorphic teratozoospermias, ASS has a strong genetic basis and is most often caused by bi-allelic variants in SUN5 (Sad1 and UNC84 domain-containing 5). Using whole exome sequencing (WES), we investigated a cohort of nine infertile subjects displaying ASS. These subjects were recruited in three centers located in France and Tunisia, but all originated from North Africa. Sperm from subjects carrying candidate genetic variants were subjected to immunofluorescence analysis and transmission electron microscopy. Moreover, fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) was performed on sperm nuclei to assess their chromosomal content. Variant filtering permitted us to identify the same SUN5 homozygous frameshift variant (c.211+1_211+2dup) in 7/9 individuals (78%). SUN5 encodes a protein localized on the posterior part of the nuclear envelope that is necessary for the attachment of the tail to the sperm head. Immunofluorescence assays performed on sperm cells from three mutated subjects revealed a total absence of SUN5, thus demonstrating the deleterious impact of the identified variant on protein expression. Transmission electron microscopy showed a conserved flagellar structure and a slightly decondensed chromatin. FISH did not highlight a higher rate of chromosome aneuploidy in spermatozoa from SUN5 patients compared to controls, indicating that intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) can be proposed for patients carrying the c.211+1_211+2dup variant. These results suggest that the identified SUN5 variant is the main cause of ASS in the North African population. Consequently, a simple and inexpensive genotyping of the 211+1_211+2dup variant could be beneficial for affected men of North African origin before resorting to more exhaustive genetic analyses.
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- Caroline Cazin
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (G.M.); (M.W.); (C.C.); (C.A.); (A.T.); (P.F.R.)
- UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Department of Reproductive Biology, Hôpital Jean Verdier, Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Paris, F-75004 Paris, France; (Y.B.); (C.S.)
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (G.M.); (M.W.); (C.C.); (C.A.); (A.T.); (P.F.R.)
- UM de Génétique Chromosomique, CHU Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Centre d’Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Polyclinique les Jasmin, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia; (S.F.B.M.); (R.Z.)
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (G.M.); (M.W.); (C.C.); (C.A.); (A.T.); (P.F.R.)
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (G.M.); (M.W.); (C.C.); (C.A.); (A.T.); (P.F.R.)
- Department of Reproductive Biology, Hôpital Jean Verdier, Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Paris, F-75004 Paris, France; (Y.B.); (C.S.)
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- EA 4308 ‘Gametogenesis and Gamete Quality, Normandie University, UNIROUEN, F-76000 Rouen, France; (P.D.P.); (N.R.)
- Reproductive Biology Laboratory-CECOS, Assisted Reproductive Center, Rouen Normandy University Hospital, F-76000 Rouen, France
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- EA 4308 ‘Gametogenesis and Gamete Quality, Normandie University, UNIROUEN, F-76000 Rouen, France; (P.D.P.); (N.R.)
- Reproductive Biology Laboratory-CECOS, Assisted Reproductive Center, Rouen Normandy University Hospital, F-76000 Rouen, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (G.M.); (M.W.); (C.C.); (C.A.); (A.T.); (P.F.R.)
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (G.M.); (M.W.); (C.C.); (C.A.); (A.T.); (P.F.R.)
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (G.M.); (M.W.); (C.C.); (C.A.); (A.T.); (P.F.R.)
- UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Centre d’Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Polyclinique les Jasmin, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia; (S.F.B.M.); (R.Z.)
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- Department of Reproductive Biology, Hôpital Jean Verdier, Assistance Publique, Hôpitaux de Paris, F-75004 Paris, France; (Y.B.); (C.S.)
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (C.C.); (G.M.); (M.W.); (C.C.); (C.A.); (A.T.); (P.F.R.)
- UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- Correspondence:
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Cavarocchi E, Whitfield M, Chargui A, Stouvenel L, Lorès P, Coutton C, Arnoult C, Santulli P, Patrat C, Thierry-Mieg N, Ray PF, Dulioust E, Touré A. The sodium/proton exchanger SLC9C1 (sNHE) is essential for human sperm motility and fertility. Clin Genet 2021; 99:684-693. [PMID: 33462806 DOI: 10.1111/cge.13927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
Asthenozoospermia, defined by the absence or reduction of sperm motility, constitutes the most frequent cause of human male infertility. This pathological condition is caused by morphological and/or functional defects of the sperm flagellum, which preclude proper sperm progression. While in the last decade many causal genes were identified for asthenozoospermia associated with severe sperm flagellar defects, the causes of purely functional asthenozoospermia are still poorly defined. We describe here the case of an infertile man, displaying asthenozoospermia without major morphological flagellar anomalies and carrying a homozygous splicing mutation in SLC9C1 (sNHE), which we identified by whole-exome sequencing. SLC9C1 encodes a sperm-specific sodium/proton exchanger, which in mouse regulates pH homeostasis and interacts with the soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC), a key regulator of the signalling pathways involved in sperm motility and capacitation. We demonstrate by means of RT-PCR, immunodetection and immunofluorescence assays on patient's semen samples that the homozygous splicing mutation (c.2748 + 2 T > C) leads to in-frame exon skipping resulting in a deletion in the cyclic nucleotide-binding domain of the protein. Our work shows that in human, similar to mouse, SLC9C1 is required for sperm motility. Overall, we establish a homozygous truncating mutation in SLC9C1 as a novel cause of human asthenozoospermia and infertility.
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- Emma Cavarocchi
- Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie - Biologie de la Reproduction - CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Service de Chirurgie Gynécologie Obstétrique 2 et Médecine de la Reproduction, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie - Biologie de la Reproduction - CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- Institut Cochin, INSERM, CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie - Biologie de la Reproduction - CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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- Institut pour l'avancée des Biosciences, INSERM, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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Le Blévec E, Muroňová J, Ray PF, Arnoult C. Paternal epigenetics: Mammalian sperm provide much more than DNA at fertilization. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2020; 518:110964. [PMID: 32738444 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2020.110964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Revised: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
The spermatozoon is a highly differentiated cell with unique characteristics: it is mobile, thanks to its flagellum, and is very compact. The sperm cytoplasm is extremely reduced, containing no ribosomes, and therefore does not allow translation, and its nucleus contains very closed chromatin, preventing transcription. This DNA compaction is linked to the loss of nucleosomes and the replacement of histones by protamines. Based on these characteristics, sperm was considered to simply deliver paternal DNA to the oocyte. However, some parts of the sperm DNA remain organized in a nucleosomal format, and bear epigenetic information. In addition, the nucleus and the cytoplasm contain a multitude of RNAs of different types, including non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) which also carry epigenetic information. For a long time, these RNAs were considered residues of spermatogenesis. After briefly describing the mechanisms of compaction of sperm DNA, we focus this review on the origin and function of the different ncRNAs. We present studies demonstrating the importance of these RNAs in embryonic development and transgenerational adaptation to stress. We also look at other epigenetic marks, such as DNA methylation or post-translational modifications of histones, and show that they are sensitive to environmental stress and transmissible to offspring. The post-fertilization role of certain sperm-borne proteins is also discussed.
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- Emilie Le Blévec
- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, F-38000, France; Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F-38000, France; IMV Technologies, ZI N° 1 Est, L'Aigle, F-61300, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, F-38000, France; Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, F-38000, France; Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F-38000, France; CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, F-38000, France; Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F-38000, France.
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Arnoult C. Complexity and diversity of sperm physiology. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2020; 518:111002. [PMID: 32828872 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2020.111002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Christophe Arnoult
- Université Grenoble Alpes, Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F38000, France.
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Spermatozoa are polarized cells with a head and a flagellum joined by the connecting piece. Head integrity is critical for normal sperm function, and head defects consistently lead to male infertility. Abnormalities of the sperm head are among the most severe and characteristic sperm defects. Patients presenting with a monomorphic head sperm defects such as globozoospermia or marcrozoospermia were analyzed permitting to identify several key genes for spermatogenesis such as AURKC and DPY19L2. The study of patients with other specific sperm head defects such as acephalic spermatozoa have also enabled the identification of new infertility genes such as SUN5. Here, we review the genetic causes leading to morphological defects of sperm head. Advances in the genetics of male infertility are necessary to improve the management of infertility and will pave the road towards future strategies of treatments, especially for patients with the most severe phenotype as sperm head defects.
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- Julie Beurois
- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France; CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France; CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France; CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France; CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, 38000, Grenoble, France; CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France.
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Celse T, Cazin C, Mietton F, Martinez G, Martinez D, Thierry-Mieg N, Septier A, Guillemain C, Beurois J, Clergeau A, Mustapha SFB, Kharouf M, Zoghmar A, Chargui A, Papaxanthos A, Dorphin B, Foliguet B, Triki C, Sifer C, Lauton D, Tachdjian G, Schuler G, Lejeune H, Puechberty J, Bessonnat J, Pasquier L, Mery L, Poulain M, Chaabouni M, Sermondade N, Cabry R, Benbouhadja S, Veau S, Frapsauce C, Mitchell V, Achard V, Satre V, Hennebicq S, Zouari R, Arnoult C, Kherraf ZE, Coutton C, Ray PF. Genetic analyses of a large cohort of infertile patients with globozoospermia, DPY19L2 still the main actor, GGN confirmed as a guest player. Hum Genet 2020; 140:43-57. [PMID: 33108537 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-020-02229-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
Globozoospermia is a rare phenotype of primary male infertility inducing the production of round-headed spermatozoa without acrosome. Anomalies of DPY19L2 account for 50-70% of all cases and the entire deletion of the gene is by far the most frequent defect identified. Here, we present a large cohort of 69 patients with 20-100% of globozoospermia. Genetic analyses including multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification, Sanger sequencing and whole-exome sequencing identified 25 subjects with a homozygous DPY19L2 deletion (36%) and 14 carrying other DPY19L2 defects (20%). Overall, 11 deleterious single-nucleotide variants were identified including eight novel and three already published mutations. Patients with a higher rate of round-headed spermatozoa were more often diagnosed and had a higher proportion of loss of function anomalies, highlighting a good genotype phenotype correlation. No gene defects were identified in patients carrying < 50% of globozoospermia while diagnosis efficiency rose to 77% for patients with > 50% of globozoospermia. In addition, results from whole-exome sequencing were scrutinized for 23 patients with a DPY19L2 negative diagnosis, searching for deleterious variants in the nine other genes described to be associated with globozoospermia in human (C2CD6, C7orf61, CCDC62, CCIN, DNAH17, GGN, PICK1, SPATA16, and ZPBP1). Only one homozygous novel truncating variant was identified in the GGN gene in one patient, confirming the association of GGN with globozoospermia. In view of these results, we propose a novel diagnostic strategy focusing on patients with at least 50% of globozoospermia and based on a classical qualitative PCR to detect DPY19L2 homozygous deletions. In the absence of the latter, we recommend to perform whole-exome sequencing to search for defects in DPY19L2 as well as in the other previously described candidate genes.
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- Tristan Celse
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, TIMC-IMAG, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Pôle Femmes-Parents-Enfants, Centre Clinico-Biologique AMP-CECOS, Plateforme Cancer et Fertilité ONCOPACA-Corse, Assistance-Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Marseille, France.,Aix Marseille University, INSERM, MMG, UMR_S 1251, Marseille, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Reproduction Sciences and Surgery Clinique, Ibn Rochd, Constantine, Algeria
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- Faculté de Médecine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Hôpital Universitaire Paris Centre, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Cochin, Service d'Histologie-Embryologie-Biologie de la Reproduction, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France
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- Toxicology and Molecular Biology, Institute Jean Lamour UMR 7198 du CNRS, Université de Lorraine, 54000, Nancy, France
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- Centre d'AMP, Clinique Hannibal, Les Berges du Lac, 1053, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Service de Biologie de la Reproduction, d'Histo-Embryologie et Cytogénétique, Hôpital Jean-Verdier, Avenue du 14 Juillet, 93140, Bondy, France
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- Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France
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- UMR 967, INSERM, Service d'Histologie Embryologie et Cytogénétique, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris-Sud, AP-HP, Clamart, France
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- Reproductive Medicine Department, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Département de Génétique Médicale, Maladies Rares et Médecine Personnalisée, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, CHU de Montpellier, Université Montpelier, Montpellier, France
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- CHU de Grenoble, UF de Biologie de la Procréation, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Service de Génétique Clinique, CLAD Ouest, CHU Rennes, Rennes, France
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- Service de Médecine de la Reproduction, CHU de Saint-Étienne, Hôpital Nord, 42055, Saint-Étienne Cedex 2, France
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hôpital Foch, Université de Paris Ouest (UVSQ), Suresnes, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Service de Biologie de la Reproduction-CECOS, Hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 75020, Paris, France
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Picardie University Jules Verne, Amiens University Medical Centre, Amiens, France
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- Reproduction Sciences and Surgery Clinique, Ibn Rochd, Constantine, Algeria
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- CHU, Centre d'AMP-CECOS, University Rennes, 16 Boulevard de Bulgarie, 35000, Rennes, France
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- CHU Bretonneau, Médecine et Biologie de la Reproduction-CECOS, Tours, France
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- EA 4308, Department of Reproductive Biology and Spermiology-CECOS Lille, University Medical Center, 59037, Lille, France
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- CECOS-Laboratoire de Biologie de la Reproduction, Pôle de Gynécologie Obstétrique et Reproduction (Gynépôle), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) la Conception, 13005, Marseille, France.,Centre Clinico-Biologique d'Assistance Médicale à la Procréation, Pôle de Gynécologie Obstétrique et Reproduction (Gynépôle), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) la Conception, 13005, Marseille, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Écologie (IMBE UMR 7263), Equipe Biogénotoxicologie, Santé Humaine et Environnement, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Université Avignon, 27, Boulevard Jean-Moulin, 13385, Marseille Cedex 5, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UF de Biologie de la Procréation, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Pôle Femmes-Parents-Enfants, Centre Clinico-Biologique AMP-CECOS, Plateforme Cancer et Fertilité ONCOPACA-Corse, Assistance-Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Marseille, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000, Grenoble, France. .,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France.
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Liu C, Miyata H, Gao Y, Sha Y, Tang S, Xu Z, Whitfield M, Patrat C, Wu H, Dulioust E, Tian S, Shimada K, Cong J, Noda T, Li H, Morohoshi A, Cazin C, Kherraf ZE, Arnoult C, Jin L, He X, Ray PF, Cao Y, Touré A, Zhang F, Ikawa M. Bi-allelic DNAH8 Variants Lead to Multiple Morphological Abnormalities of the Sperm Flagella and Primary Male Infertility. Am J Hum Genet 2020; 107:330-341. [PMID: 32619401 PMCID: PMC7413861 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Sperm malformation is a direct factor for male infertility. Multiple morphological abnormalities of the flagella (MMAF), a severe form of asthenoteratozoospermia, are characterized by immotile spermatozoa with malformed and/or absent flagella in the ejaculate. Previous studies indicated genetic heterogeneity in MMAF. To further define genetic factors underlying MMAF, we performed whole-exome sequencing in a cohort of 90 Chinese MMAF-affected men. Two cases (2.2%) were identified as carrying bi-allelic missense DNAH8 variants, variants which were either absent or rare in the control human population and were predicted to be deleterious by multiple bioinformatic tools. Re-analysis of exome data from a second cohort of 167 MMAF-affected men from France, Iran, and North Africa permitted the identification of an additional male carrying a DNAH8 homozygous frameshift variant. DNAH8 encodes a dynein axonemal heavy-chain component that is expressed preferentially in the testis. Hematoxylin-eosin staining and electron microscopy analyses of the spermatozoa from men harboring bi-allelic DNAH8 variants showed a highly aberrant morphology and ultrastructure of the sperm flagella. Immunofluorescence assays performed on the spermatozoa from men harboring bi-allelic DNAH8 variants revealed the absent or markedly reduced staining of DNAH8 and its associated protein DNAH17. Dnah8-knockout male mice also presented typical MMAF phenotypes and sterility. Interestingly, intracytoplasmic sperm injections using the spermatozoa from Dnah8-knockout male mice resulted in good pregnancy outcomes. Collectively, our experimental observations from humans and mice demonstrate that DNAH8 is essential for sperm flagellar formation and that bi-allelic deleterious DNAH8 variants lead to male infertility with MMAF.
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- Chunyu Liu
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, NHC Key Laboratory of Reproduction Regulation (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai 200011, China; State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211116, China
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- Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China; Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle, Anhui Medical University, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei 230032, China
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- Department of Andrology, United Diagnostic and Research Center for Clinical Genetics, School of Public Health & Women and Children's Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China; State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics & Center for Molecular Imaging and Translational Medicine, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, NHC Key Laboratory of Reproduction Regulation (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai 200011, China
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- Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, Paris 75014, France; Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie-Biologie de la Reproduction-CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China; Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle, Anhui Medical University, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei 230032, China
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, Paris 75014, France; Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie-Biologie de la Reproduction-CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, NHC Key Laboratory of Reproduction Regulation (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai 200011, China
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- Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, NHC Key Laboratory of Reproduction Regulation (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai 200011, China
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- Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China; Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle, Anhui Medical University, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei 230032, China
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- Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), INSERM U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France; UM de genetique de l'infertilite et de diagnostic pre-implantatoire (GI-DPI), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes (CHUGA), Grenoble 38000, France; Service de Génétique, Laboratoire Eurofins Biomnis, Lyon, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), INSERM U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France; UM de genetique de l'infertilite et de diagnostic pre-implantatoire (GI-DPI), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes (CHUGA), Grenoble 38000, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), INSERM U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, NHC Key Laboratory of Reproduction Regulation (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China; Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle, Anhui Medical University, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei 230032, China
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), INSERM U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France; UM de genetique de l'infertilite et de diagnostic pre-implantatoire (GI-DPI), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes (CHUGA), Grenoble 38000, France
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- Reproductive Medicine Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China; NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China; Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle, Anhui Medical University, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Hefei 230032, China
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, NHC Key Laboratory of Reproduction Regulation (Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research), State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering at School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Female Reproductive Endocrine Related Diseases, Shanghai 200011, China; State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211116, China.
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- Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.
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Escoffier J, Arnaud B, Kaba M, Hograindleur JP, Le Blévec E, Martinez G, Stévant I, Ray PF, Arnoult C, Nef S. Pantoprazole, a proton-pump inhibitor, impairs human sperm motility and capacitation in vitro. Andrology 2020; 8:1795-1804. [PMID: 32609951 DOI: 10.1111/andr.12855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2019] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND The effects of PPIs on human sperm fertilizing capacity were poorly investigated although these drugs are widely over-used. Two publications retrospectively studied relationships between any PPI intake and sperm parameters from patients consulting at infertility clinics, but the conclusions of these reports were contradictory. Only two reports investigated the effects of lansoprazole and omeprazole on sperm motility and found lansoprazole to be deleterious and omeprazole to be neutral for sperm motility. The inconsistency of the PPI effect in the previous reports emphasizes the need for more basic research on human spermatozoa, taking into account the hypothesis that the different PPI drugs may have different effects on sperm physiology. OBJECTIVES Do PPIs, which are among the most widely sold drug in the word, impact negatively human sperm capacitation and sperm motility? MATERIALS AND METHODS The effects of PPIs on human sperm maturation and motility were analyzed by CASA, flow cytometry, and Western blot. RESULTS We tested the impact of 6 different PPIs on human sperm motility and capacitation. We showed that pantoprazole, but not the other PPIs, decreased sperm progressive motility and capacitation-induced sperm hyperactivation. We therefore investigated further the effects of pantoprazole on sperm capacitation, and we observed that it had a significant deleterious effect on the capacitation-induced hyperpolarization of the membrane potential and capacitation-associated protein phosphorylation. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION Our results indicate that exposure to pantoprazole has an adverse effect on the physiological competence of human spermatozoa. As the capacitation process takes place within the female tract, our results suggest that PPIs intake by the female partner may impair in vivo sperm maturation and possibly fertilization. Moreover, the absence of adverse effect by PPIs on mouse sperm emphasizes the need to develop reprotox assays using human material to better assess the effects of medication intake on sperm physiology.
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- Jessica Escoffier
- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Université Grenoble Alpes, Equipe "Génétique, Epigénétique et Thérapies de l'Infertilité", IAB, CNRS UMR 5309, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Equipe "Génétique, Epigénétique et Thérapies de l'Infertilité", IAB, CNRS UMR 5309, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Equipe "Génétique, Epigénétique et Thérapies de l'Infertilité", IAB, CNRS UMR 5309, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Equipe "Génétique, Epigénétique et Thérapies de l'Infertilité", IAB, CNRS UMR 5309, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Equipe "Génétique, Epigénétique et Thérapies de l'Infertilité", IAB, CNRS UMR 5309, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Equipe "Génétique, Epigénétique et Thérapies de l'Infertilité", IAB, CNRS UMR 5309, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Equipe "Génétique, Epigénétique et Thérapies de l'Infertilité", IAB, CNRS UMR 5309, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Martinez G, Lacoste R, Dumasy M, Garbit S, Brouillet S, Coutton C, Arnoult C, Druelle F, Molina-Vila P. Deslorelin acetate implant induces transient sterility and behavior changes in male olive baboon (Papio anubis): A case study. J Med Primatol 2020; 49:344-348. [PMID: 32524631 DOI: 10.1111/jmp.12479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Revised: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This case study evaluates the effects of a 4.7 mg deslorelin acetate implant on one male olive baboon (Papio anubis). Implantation induces transient azoospermia after which the subject was able to conceive again. Behavior was also impacted with a decrease in our proxies of aggressiveness and sexual arousal.
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- Guillaume Martinez
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, Hôpital Couple-Enfant, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France.,Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, UMR5309, CNRS, Grenoble, France
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- Station de Primatologie, UPS846, CNRS, Rousset, France
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- Centre Clinique et Biologique d'Assistance Médicale à la Procréation-CECOS, Hôpital Couple-Enfant, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, La Tronche, France
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, Hôpital Couple-Enfant, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France.,Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, UMR5309, CNRS, Grenoble, France
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, UMR5309, CNRS, Grenoble, France
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- Station de Primatologie, UPS846, CNRS, Rousset, France.,HNHP, UMR 7194, MNHN, Paris, France
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Figueiredo CC, Bisinotto DZ, Chebel RC, Thatcher WW, Arnoult C, Faust MA, Schmitt E, Bisinotto RS. Effects of timing of artificial insemination and treatment of semen with a Slo3 potassium channel blocker on fertility of dairy heifers subjected to the 5-day CIDR-Synch protocol. J Dairy Sci 2020; 103:7462-7471. [PMID: 32534924 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2019-18103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2019] [Accepted: 03/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of the timing of artificial insemination (AI) and incorporation of the Slo3 K+ channel blocker 4-(4-chlorophenyl)butyl-diethyl-heptylammonium to semen extender (CSE) on pregnancy per AI (P/AI) and pregnancy loss in dairy heifers. In experiment 1, Holstein heifers were subjected to the 5-d CIDR-Synch protocol: d -8 GnRH and controlled internal drug-release device (CIDR); d -3 PGF2α and CIDR removal; d -2 PGF2α; d 0 GnRH) and assigned randomly to receive timed AI with control semen on d 0 (72-CON; n = 104), control semen on d -1 (48-CON; n = 100), or CSE-treated semen on d -1 (48-CSE; n = 98). Heifers were fitted with collar-mounted automated estrus detection devices to monitor physical activity and rumination. In experiment 2, Holstein heifers were subjected to the 5-d CIDR-Synch protocol and received a mount detection patch at the first PGF2α injection. Heifers detected in estrus before d 0 were inseminated on the same day, whereas those not detected in estrus received the second GnRH injection and timed AI on d 0. Heifers were assigned randomly to receive AI with control (AI-CON; n = 148) or CSE-treated semen (AI-CSE; n = 110). Four bulls with proven fertility were used in both experiments, and ejaculates from each sire were divided and processed as CON or CSE. Pregnancy was diagnosed by transrectal ultrasonography at 29 and 54 d after AI. Data were analyzed by logistic regression, and statistical models included the fixed effects of treatment and enrollment week. In experiment 1, orthogonal contrasts were built to assess the effects of day of AI (72-CON vs. 48-CON + 48-CSE) and treatment of semen with CSE (48-CON vs. 48-CSE). Pregnancy per AI on d 29 (72-CON = 60.8, 48-CON = 35.2, 48-CSE = 39.8%) and d 54 (72-CON = 58.2, 48-CON = 31.6, 48-CSE = 36.2%) was greater for heifers inseminated on d 0 compared with d -1. However, no effect of semen extender on P/AI was observed in heifers inseminated on d -1. In experiment 2, P/AI tended to be greater for AI-CSE than for AI-CON on d 29 (58.6 vs. 47.3%) and d 54 after AI (55.6 vs. 43.7%). Advancing AI by 24 h decreased the likelihood of pregnancy, and use of CSE was unable to overcome the expected asynchrony between insemination and ovulation. Nevertheless, incorporation of CSE in semen processing tended to improve P/AI when heifers received AI upon detected estrus or timed AI concurrently with the final GnRH of the 5-d CIDR-Synch protocol.
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- C C Figueiredo
- Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, D. H. Barron Reproductive and Perinatal Biology Research Program, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610
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- Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, D. H. Barron Reproductive and Perinatal Biology Research Program, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610
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- Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, D. H. Barron Reproductive and Perinatal Biology Research Program, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610; Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville 32608
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville 32608
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- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM 1209, CNRS UMR 5309, University of Grenoble Alpes, La Tronche 38700, France
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- IMV Technologies, L'Aigle 61300, France
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- Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, D. H. Barron Reproductive and Perinatal Biology Research Program, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610.
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Martinez G, Beurois J, Dacheux D, Cazin C, Bidart M, Kherraf ZE, Robinson DR, Satre V, Le Gac G, Ka C, Gourlaouen I, Fichou Y, Petre G, Dulioust E, Zouari R, Thierry-Mieg N, Touré A, Arnoult C, Bonhivers M, Ray P, Coutton C. Biallelic variants in MAATS1 encoding CFAP91, a calmodulin-associated and spoke-associated complex protein, cause severe astheno-teratozoospermia and male infertility. J Med Genet 2020; 57:708-716. [PMID: 32161152 DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2019-106775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Revised: 01/25/2020] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Multiple morphological abnormalities of the flagella (MMAF) consistently lead to male infertility due to a reduced or absent sperm motility defined as asthenozoospermia. Despite numerous genes recently described to be recurrently associated with MMAF, more than half of the cases analysed remain unresolved, suggesting that many yet uncharacterised gene defects account for this phenotype METHODS: Exome sequencing was performed on 167 infertile men with an MMAF phenotype. Immunostaining and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in sperm cells from affected individuals were performed to characterise the ultrastructural sperm defects. Gene inactivation using RNA interference (RNAi) was subsequently performed in Trypanosoma. RESULTS We identified six unrelated affected patients carrying a homozygous deleterious variants in MAATS1, a gene encoding CFAP91, a calmodulin-associated and spoke-associated complex (CSC) protein. TEM and immunostaining experiments in sperm cells showed severe central pair complex (CPC) and radial spokes defects. Moreover, we confirmed that the WDR66 protein is a physical and functional partner of CFAP91 into the CSC. Study of Trypanosoma MAATS1's orthologue (TbCFAP91) highlighted high sequence and structural analogies with the human protein and confirmed the axonemal localisation of the protein. Knockdown of TbCFAP91 using RNAi impaired flagellar movement led to CPC defects in Trypanosoma as observed in humans. CONCLUSIONS We showed that CFAP91 is essential for normal sperm flagellum structure and function in human and Trypanosoma and that biallelic variants in this gene lead to severe flagellum malformations resulting in astheno-teratozoospermia and primary male infertility.
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- Guillaume Martinez
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, CNRS UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France.,Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, CNRS UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, Unité Médicale de Génétique Moléculaire : Maladies Héréditaires et Oncologie, Pôle Biologie, Institut de Biologie et de Pathologie, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, CNRS UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM UMR1078, Université Bretagne Loire - Université de Brest, Etablissement Français du Sang - Bretagne, Institut Brestois Santé-Agro-Matière, Brest, France.,Service de Génétique Médicale et Biologie de la Reproduction, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire et Histocompatibilité, CHRU de Brest, Hôpital Morvan, Brest, France
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- INSERM UMR1078, Université Bretagne Loire - Université de Brest, Etablissement Français du Sang - Bretagne, Institut Brestois Santé-Agro-Matière, Brest, France
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- INSERM UMR1078, Université Bretagne Loire - Université de Brest, Etablissement Français du Sang - Bretagne, Institut Brestois Santé-Agro-Matière, Brest, France
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- INSERM UMR1078, Université Bretagne Loire - Université de Brest, Etablissement Français du Sang - Bretagne, Institut Brestois Santé-Agro-Matière, Brest, France
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- INSERM U1205, UFR Chimie Biologie, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie - Biologie de la Reproduction, GH Cochin Broca Hôtel Dieu, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.,Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France.,INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, CNRS UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France .,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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Christou-Kent M, Dhellemmes M, Lambert E, Ray PF, Arnoult C. Diversity of RNA-Binding Proteins Modulating Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Protein Expression in the Maturing Mammalian Oocyte. Cells 2020; 9:cells9030662. [PMID: 32182827 PMCID: PMC7140715 DOI: 10.3390/cells9030662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The oocyte faces a particular challenge in terms of gene regulation. When oocytes resume meiosis at the end of the growth phase and prior to ovulation, the condensed chromatin state prevents the transcription of genes as they are required. Transcription is effectively silenced from the late germinal vesicle (GV) stage until embryonic genome activation (EGA) following fertilisation. Therefore, during its growth, the oocyte must produce the mRNA transcripts needed to fulfil its protein requirements during the active period of meiotic completion, fertilisation, and the maternal-to zygote-transition (MZT). After meiotic resumption, gene expression control can be said to be transferred from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, from transcriptional regulation to translational regulation. Maternal RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are the mediators of translational regulation and their role in oocyte maturation and early embryo development is vital. Understanding these mechanisms will provide invaluable insight into the oocyte's requirements for developmental competence, with important implications for the diagnosis and treatment of certain types of infertility. Here, we give an overview of post-transcriptional regulation in the oocyte, emphasising the current knowledge of mammalian RBP mechanisms, and develop the roles of these mechanisms in the timely activation and elimination of maternal transcripts.
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- Marie Christou-Kent
- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (M.C.-K.); (M.D.); (E.L.); (P.F.R.)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (M.C.-K.); (M.D.); (E.L.); (P.F.R.)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (M.C.-K.); (M.D.); (E.L.); (P.F.R.)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (M.C.-K.); (M.D.); (E.L.); (P.F.R.)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000 Grenoble, France; (M.C.-K.); (M.D.); (E.L.); (P.F.R.)
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +33-(0)4-76-63-74-08
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Touré A, Martinez G, Kherraf ZE, Cazin C, Beurois J, Arnoult C, Ray PF, Coutton C. The genetic architecture of morphological abnormalities of the sperm tail. Hum Genet 2020; 140:21-42. [PMID: 31950240 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-020-02113-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Spermatozoa contain highly specialized structural features reflecting unique functions required for fertilization. Among them, the flagellum is a sperm-specific organelle required to generate the motility, which is essential to reach the egg. The flagellum integrity is, therefore, critical for normal sperm function and flagellum defects consistently lead to male infertility due to reduced or absent sperm motility defined as asthenozoospermia. Multiple morphological abnormalities of the flagella (MMAF), also called short tails, is among the most severe forms of sperm flagellum defects responsible for male infertility and is characterized by the presence in the ejaculate of spermatozoa being short, coiled, absent and of irregular caliber. Recent studies have demonstrated that MMAF is genetically heterogeneous which is consistent with the large number of proteins (over one thousand) localized in the human sperm flagella. In the past 5 years, genomic investigation of the MMAF phenotype allowed the identification of 18 genes whose mutations induce MMAF and infertility. Here we will review information about those genes including their expression pattern, the features of the encoded proteins together with their localization within the different flagellar protein complexes (axonemal or peri-axonemal) and their potential functions. We will categorize the identified MMAF genes following the protein complexes, functions or biological processes they may be associated with, based on the current knowledge in the field.
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- Aminata Touré
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75014, Paris, France.,INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, 75014, Paris, France.,Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, 75014, Paris, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM GI-DPI, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France. .,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, 38000, Grenoble, France.
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Lorès P, Dacheux D, Kherraf ZE, Nsota Mbango JF, Coutton C, Stouvenel L, Ialy-Radio C, Amiri-Yekta A, Whitfield M, Schmitt A, Cazin C, Givelet M, Ferreux L, Fourati Ben Mustapha S, Halouani L, Marrakchi O, Daneshipour A, El Khouri E, Do Cruzeiro M, Favier M, Guillonneau F, Chaudhry M, Sakheli Z, Wolf JP, Patrat C, Gacon G, Savinov SN, Hosseini SH, Robinson DR, Zouari R, Ziyyat A, Arnoult C, Dulioust E, Bonhivers M, Ray PF, Touré A. Mutations in TTC29, Encoding an Evolutionarily Conserved Axonemal Protein, Result in Asthenozoospermia and Male Infertility. Am J Hum Genet 2019; 105:1148-1167. [PMID: 31735292 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2019] [Accepted: 10/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
In humans, structural or functional defects of the sperm flagellum induce asthenozoospermia, which accounts for the main sperm defect encountered in infertile men. Herein we focused on morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagellum (MMAF), a phenotype also termed "short tails," which constitutes one of the most severe sperm morphological defects resulting in asthenozoospermia. In previous work based on whole-exome sequencing of a cohort of 167 MMAF-affected individuals, we identified bi-allelic loss-of-function mutations in more than 30% of the tested subjects. In this study, we further analyzed this cohort and identified five individuals with homozygous truncating variants in TTC29, a gene preferentially and highly expressed in the testis, and encoding a tetratricopeptide repeat-containing protein related to the intraflagellar transport (IFT). One individual carried a frameshift variant, another one carried a homozygous stop-gain variant, and three carried the same splicing variant affecting a consensus donor site. The deleterious effect of this last variant was confirmed on the corresponding transcript and protein product. In addition, we produced and analyzed TTC29 loss-of-function models in the flagellated protist T. brucei and in M. musculus. Both models confirmed the importance of TTC29 for flagellar beating. We showed that in T. brucei the TPR structural motifs, highly conserved between the studied orthologs, are critical for TTC29 axonemal localization and flagellar beating. Overall our work demonstrates that TTC29 is a conserved axonemal protein required for flagellar structure and beating and that TTC29 mutations are a cause of male sterility due to MMAF.
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- Patrick Lorès
- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, CNRS UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France; Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR-CNRS 5234, 33000 Bordeaux, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble 38000, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie - Biologie de la Reproduction - CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- Histologie Embryologie et Biologie de la Reproduction, Centre de Promotion des Sciences de la Reproduction, Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003 Tunis, Tunisia
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- Histologie Embryologie et Biologie de la Reproduction, Centre de Promotion des Sciences de la Reproduction, Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003 Tunis, Tunisia
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- Histologie Embryologie et Biologie de la Reproduction, Centre de Promotion des Sciences de la Reproduction, Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003 Tunis, Tunisia
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France; Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie - Biologie de la Reproduction - CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France; Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie - Biologie de la Reproduction - CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Andrology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institutefor Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Université de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, CNRS UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France
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- Histologie Embryologie et Biologie de la Reproduction, Centre de Promotion des Sciences de la Reproduction, Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre Urbain Nord, 1003 Tunis, Tunisia
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France; Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie - Biologie de la Reproduction - CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France; Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie - Biologie de la Reproduction - CECOS Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, CNRS UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France; CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble 38000, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France.
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Beurois J, Martinez G, Cazin C, Kherraf ZE, Amiri-Yekta A, Thierry-Mieg N, Bidart M, Petre G, Satre V, Brouillet S, Touré A, Arnoult C, Ray PF, Coutton C. CFAP70 mutations lead to male infertility due to severe astheno-teratozoospermia. A case report. Hum Reprod 2019; 34:2071-2079. [DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dez166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Revised: 07/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
The use of high-throughput sequencing techniques has allowed the identification of numerous mutations in genes responsible for severe astheno-teratozoospermia due to multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF). However, more than half of the analysed cases remain unresolved suggesting that many yet uncharacterised gene defects account for this phenotype. Based on whole-exome sequencing data from a large cohort of 167 MMAF-affected subjects, we identified two unrelated affected individuals carrying a homozygous deleterious mutation in CFAP70, a gene not previously linked to the MMAF phenotype. One patient had a homozygous splice variant c.1723-1G>T, altering a consensus splice acceptor site of CFAP70 exon 16, and one had a likely deleterious missense variant in exon 3 (p.Phe60Ile). The CFAP70 gene encodes a regulator protein of the outer dynein arms (ODA) strongly expressed in the human testis. In the sperm cells from the patient carrying the splice variant, immunofluorescence (IF) experiments confirmed the absence of the protein in the sperm flagellum. Moreover, IF analysis showed the absence of markers for the ODAs and the central pair complex of the axoneme. Interestingly, whereas CFAP70 staining was present in sperm cells from patients with mutations in the three other MMAF-related genes ARMC2, FSIP2 and CFAP43, we observed an absence of staining in sperm cells from patients mutated in the WDR66 gene, suggesting a possible interaction between two different axonemal components. In conclusion, this work provides the first evidence that loss of CFAP70 function causes MMAF and that ODA-related proteins may be crucial for the assembly and/or stability of the flagellum axoneme in addition to its motility.
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- Julie Beurois
- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
- CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
- CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- INSERM U1205, UFR Chimie Biologie, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1205, UFR Chimie Biologie, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
- CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire d'AMP-CECOS, CHU Grenoble-Alpes, U1036 INSERM-UGA-CEA-CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France
- UMR 8104, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 75014, France
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
- CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
- CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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Liu Y, Zhang L, Li W, Li Y, Liu J, Zhang S, Pin G, Song S, Ray PF, Arnoult C, Cho C, Garcia-Reyes B, Knippschild U, Strauss JF, Zhang Z. The sperm-associated antigen 6 interactome and its role in spermatogenesis. Reproduction 2019; 158:181-197. [PMID: 31146259 PMCID: PMC7368494 DOI: 10.1530/rep-18-0522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2018] [Accepted: 05/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Mammalian SPAG6, the orthologue of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii PF16, is a component of the central apparatus of the '9 + 2' axoneme that controls ciliary/flagellar motility, including sperm motility. Recent studies revealed that SPAG6 has functions beyond its role in the central apparatus. Hence, we reexamined the role of SPAG6 in male fertility. In wild-type mice, SPAG6 was present in cytoplasmic vesicles in spermatocytes, the acrosome of round and elongating spermatids and the manchette of elongating spermatids. Spag6-deficient testes showed abnormal spermatogenesis, with abnormalities in male germ cell morphology consistent with the multi-compartment pattern of SPAG6 localization. The armadillo repeat domain of mouse SPAG6 was used as a bait in a yeast two-hybrid screen, and several proteins with diverse functions appeared multiple times, including Snapin, SPINK2 and COPS5. Snapin has a similar localization to SPAG6 in male germ cells, and SPINK2, a key protein in acrosome biogenesis, was dramatically reduced in Spag6-deficient mice which have defective acrosomes. SPAG16L, another SPAG6-binding partner, lost its localization to the manchette in Spag6-deficient mice. Our findings demonstrate that SPAG6 is a multi-functional protein that not only regulates sperm motility, but also plays roles in spermatogenesis in multiple cellular compartments involving multiple protein partners.
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- Yunhao Liu
- School of Public Health, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Hazard Identification and Control, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430065
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- School of Public Health, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Hazard Identification and Control, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430065
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 48201
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- School of Public Health, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Hazard Identification and Control, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430065
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- School of Public Health, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Hazard Identification and Control, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430065
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- School of Public Health, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Hazard Identification and Control, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430065
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- School of Public Health, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Hazard Identification and Control, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430065
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- School of Public Health, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Hazard Identification and Control, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430065
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Genetic Epigenetic and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 500-712, Korea
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- Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, D-89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, D-89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23298
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- Department of Physiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 48201
- Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 48201
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Kherraf ZE, Cazin C, Coutton C, Amiri-Yekta A, Martinez G, Boguenet M, Fourati Ben Mustapha S, Kharouf M, Gourabi H, Hosseini SH, Daneshipour A, Touré A, Thierry-Mieg N, Zouari R, Arnoult C, Ray PF. Whole exome sequencing of men with multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella reveals novel homozygous QRICH2 mutations. Clin Genet 2019; 96:394-401. [PMID: 31292949 DOI: 10.1111/cge.13604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Revised: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Multiple morphological anomalies of the sperm flagella (MMAF syndrome) is a severe male infertility phenotype which has so far been formally linked to the presence of biallelic mutations in nine genes mainly coding for axonemal proteins overexpressed in the sperm flagellum. Homozygous mutations in QRICH2, a gene coding for a protein known to be required for stabilizing proteins involved in sperm flagellum biogenesis, have recently been identified in MMAF patients from two Chinese consanguineous families. Here, in order to better assess the contribution of QRICH2 in the etiology of the MMAF phenotype, we analyzed all QRICH2 variants from whole exome sequencing data of a cohort of 167 MMAF-affected subjects originating from North Africa, Iran, and Europe. We identified a total of 14 potentially deleterious variants in 18 unrelated individuals. Two unrelated subjects, representing 1% of the cohort, carried a homozygous loss-of-function variant: c.3501C>G [p.Tyr1167Ter] and c.4614C>G [p.Tyr1538Ter], thus confirming the implication of QRICH2 in the MMAF phenotype and human male infertility. Sixteen MMAF patients (9.6%) carried a heterozygous QRICH2 potentially deleterious variant. This rate was comparable to what was observed in a control group (15.5%) suggesting that the presence of QRICH2 heterozygous variants is not associated with MMAF syndrome.
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- Zine-Eddine Kherraf
- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,UM de Génétique Chromosomique, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,UM de Génétique Chromosomique, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Andrology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France.,UMR8104, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis, Tunisia
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,UM GI-DPI, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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Martinez G, Kherraf ZE, Zouari R, Fourati Ben Mustapha S, Saut A, Pernet-Gallay K, Bertrand A, Bidart M, Hograindleur JP, Amiri-Yekta A, Kharouf M, Karaouzène T, Thierry-Mieg N, Dacheux-Deschamps D, Satre V, Bonhivers M, Touré A, Arnoult C, Ray PF, Coutton C. Whole-exome sequencing identifies mutations in FSIP2 as a recurrent cause of multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella. Hum Reprod 2019; 33:1973-1984. [PMID: 30137358 DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dey264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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STUDY QUESTION Can whole-exome sequencing (WES) of infertile patients identify new genes responsible for multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF)? SUMMARY ANSWER WES analysis of 78 infertile men with a MMAF phenotype permitted the identification of four homozygous mutations in the fibrous sheath (FS) interacting protein 2 (FSIP2) gene in four unrelated individuals. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY The use of high-throughput sequencing techniques revealed that mutations in the dynein axonemal heavy chain 1 (DNAH1) gene, and in the cilia and flagella associated protein 43 (CFAP43) and 44 (CFAP44) genes account for approximately one-third of MMAF cases thus indicating that other relevant genes await identification. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION This was a retrospective genetics study of 78 patients presenting a MMAF phenotype who were recruited in three fertility clinics between 2008 and 2015. Control sperm samples were obtained from normospermic donors. Allelic frequency for control subjects was derived from large public databases. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS WES was performed for all 78 subjects. All identified variants were confirmed by Sanger sequencing. Relative mRNA expression levels for the selected candidate gene (FSIP2) was assessed by quantitative RT-PCR in a panel of normal human and mouse tissues. To characterize the structural and ultrastructural anomalies present in patients' sperm, immunofluorescence (IF) was performed on sperm samples from two subjects with a mutation and one control and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses was performed on sperm samples from one subject with a mutation and one control. MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE We identified four unrelated patients (4/78, 5.1%) with homozygous loss of function mutations in the FSIP2 gene, which encodes a protein of the sperm FS and is specifically expressed in human and mouse testis. None of these mutations were reported in control sequence databases. TEM analyses showed a complete disorganization of the FS associated with axonemal defects. IF analyses confirmed that the central-pair microtubules and the inner and outer dynein arms of the axoneme were abnormal in all four patients carrying FSIP2 mutations. Importantly, and in contrast to what was observed in patients with MMAF and mutations in other MMAF-related genes (DNAH1, CFAP43 and CFAP44), mutations in FSIP2 led to the absence of A-kinase anchoring protein 4 (AKAP4). LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION The low number of biological samples and the absence of a reliable anti-FSIP2 antibody prevented the formal demonstration that the FSIP2 protein was absent in sperm from subjects with a FSIP2 mutation. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS Our findings indicate that FSIP2 is one of the main genes involved in MMAF syndrome. In humans, genes previously associated with a MMAF phenotype encoded axonemal-associated proteins (DNAH1, CFAP43 and CFAP44). We show here that FSIP2, a protein of the sperm FS, is also logically associated with MMAF syndrome as we showed that it is necessary for FS assembly and for the overall axonemal and flagellar biogenesis. As was suggested before in mouse and man, our results also suggest that defects in AKAP4, one of the main proteins interacting with FSIP2, would induce a MMAF phenotype. Finally, this work reinforces the demonstration that WES sequencing is a good strategy to reach a genetic diagnosis for patients with severe male infertility phenotypes. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTEREST(S) This work was supported by the following grants: the 'MAS-Flagella' project financed by the French ANR and the DGOS for the program PRTS 2014 (14-CE15) and the 'Whole genome sequencing of patients with Flagellar Growth Defects (FGD)' project financed by the Fondation Maladies Rares for the program Séquençage à haut débit 2012. The authors have no conflict of interest.
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- Guillaume Martinez
- University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- Clinique des Jasmins, 23, Av. Louis BRAILLE 1002 Belvedere, Tunis, Tunisia
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Grenoble Neuroscience Institute, INSERM 1216, Grenoble, France
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- CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Biochimie Génétique et Moléculaire, Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Biochimie Génétique et Moléculaire, Grenoble, France.,Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Clinique des Jasmins, 23, Av. Louis BRAILLE 1002 Belvedere, Tunis, Tunisia
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,University Grenoble Alpes/CNRS, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, CNRS UMR, Bordeaux, France.,Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR-CNRS 5234, Bordeaux, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, CNRS UMR, Bordeaux, France.,Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, UMR-CNRS 5234, Bordeaux, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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Liu W, He X, Yang S, Zouari R, Wang J, Wu H, Kherraf ZE, Liu C, Coutton C, Zhao R, Tang D, Tang S, Lv M, Fang Y, Li W, Li H, Zhao J, Wang X, Zhao S, Zhang J, Arnoult C, Jin L, Zhang Z, Ray PF, Cao Y, Zhang F. Bi-allelic Mutations in TTC21A Induce Asthenoteratospermia in Humans and Mice. Am J Hum Genet 2019; 104:738-748. [PMID: 30929735 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 02/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Male infertility is a major concern affecting human reproductive health. Asthenoteratospermia can cause male infertility through reduced motility and abnormal morphology of spermatozoa. Several genes, including DNAH1 and some CFAP family members, are involved in multiple morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagella (MMAF). However, these known genes only account for approximately 60% of human MMAF cases. Here, we conducted further genetic analyses by using whole-exome sequencing in a cohort of 65 Han Chinese men with MMAF. Intriguingly, bi-allelic mutations of TTC21A (tetratricopeptide repeat domain 21A) were identified in three (5%) unrelated, MMAF-affected men, including two with homozygous stop-gain mutations and one with compound heterozygous mutations of TTC21A. Notably, these men consistently presented with MMAF and additional abnormalities of sperm head-tail conjunction. Furthermore, a homozygous TTC21A splicing mutation was identified in two Tunisian cases from an independent MMAF cohort. TTC21A is preferentially expressed in the testis and encodes an intraflagellar transport (IFT)-associated protein that possesses several tetratricopeptide repeat domains that perform functions crucial for ciliary function. To further investigate the potential roles of TTC21A in spermatogenesis, we generated Ttc21a mutant mice by using CRISPR-Cas9 technology and revealed sperm structural defects of the flagella and the connecting piece. Our consistent observations across human populations and in the mouse model strongly support the notion that bi-allelic mutations in TTC21A can induce asthenoteratospermia with defects of the sperm flagella and head-tail conjunction.
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Martinez G, Hograindleur JP, Jeammet L, Le Blévec E, Coutton C, Mermillod P, Lambeau G, Schmitt E, Ray PF, Arnoult C. Enzymatic activity of mouse group X-sPLA2 improves in vitro production of preimplantation bovine embryos. Theriogenology 2019; 131:113-122. [PMID: 30959437 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2019.03.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are widely used for both humans and domestic animals. In bovine species, in vitro embryo production is increasingly used and significant efforts are being made to optimize media and culture conditions. Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) are lipolytic enzymes that hydrolyze glycerophospholipids to produce free fatty acids and lysophospholipids that have been found to be critical for many biological processes. Mouse group X secreted PLA2 (mGX) is abundant in the male reproductive tract and its use during sperm capacitation has been shown to improve in vitro production of viable embryos in a mouse model. Here, we examined its effect in the bovine species, testing the impact of mGX on the three steps involved in vitro production of preimplantation embryos: oocyte maturation, fertilization and preimplantation development. We found that incubating cumulus oocyte complexes (COC) or gametes with mGX resulted in increased blastocyst hatching and blastocyst production, respectively. The increases of embryo production induced by the phospholipase mGX were not observed for the catalytically inactive mutant H48Q-mGX, suggesting that these effects require the enzymatic activity of mGX. We also tested bGIB, a bovine homolog of mGX. bGIB failed to improve blastocyst production, underlining the high specificity of mGX. In conclusion, the results presented show that the effects of mGX are not restricted to the mouse model and that it is potent in the bovine species as well. This result strengthens the potential of mGX as a "pro-fertility drug" for mammalian reproduction.
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- Guillaume Martinez
- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, F-38000, France; Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F-38000, France; IMV Technologies, ZI N 1 Est, F-61300, L'Aigle, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, F-38000, France; Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, IPMC, F-06560, Valbonne, Sophia Antipolis, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, F-38000, France; Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, F-38000, France; Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Laboratoire Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, INRA UMR 7247, Inra-Cnrs-Université de Tours-Haras Nationaux, F-37380, Nouzilly, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, IPMC, F-06560, Valbonne, Sophia Antipolis, France
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- IMV Technologies, ZI N 1 Est, F-61300, L'Aigle, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, F-38000, France; Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F-38000, France; CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble, F-38000, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, F-38000, France; Institute for Advanced Biosciences INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR5309, Grenoble, F-38000, France.
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Christou-Kent M, Kherraf ZE, Amiri-Yekta A, Le Blévec E, Karaouzène T, Conne B, Escoffier J, Assou S, Guttin A, Lambert E, Martinez G, Boguenet M, Fourati Ben Mustapha S, Cedrin Durnerin I, Halouani L, Marrakchi O, Makni M, Latrous H, Kharouf M, Coutton C, Thierry-Mieg N, Nef S, Bottari SP, Zouari R, Issartel JP, Ray PF, Arnoult C. PATL2 is a key actor of oocyte maturation whose invalidation causes infertility in women and mice. EMBO Mol Med 2019; 10:emmm.201708515. [PMID: 29661911 PMCID: PMC5938616 DOI: 10.15252/emmm.201708515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The genetic causes of oocyte meiotic deficiency (OMD), a form of primary infertility characterised by the production of immature oocytes, remain largely unexplored. Using whole exome sequencing, we found that 26% of a cohort of 23 subjects with OMD harboured the same homozygous nonsense pathogenic mutation in PATL2, a gene encoding a putative RNA‐binding protein. Using Patl2 knockout mice, we confirmed that PATL2 deficiency disturbs oocyte maturation, since oocytes and zygotes exhibit morphological and developmental defects, respectively. PATL2's amphibian orthologue is involved in the regulation of oocyte mRNA as a partner of CPEB. However, Patl2's expression profile throughout oocyte development in mice, alongside colocalisation experiments with Cpeb1, Msy2 and Ddx6 (three oocyte RNA regulators) suggest an original role for Patl2 in mammals. Accordingly, transcriptomic analysis of oocytes from WT and Patl2−/− animals demonstrated that in the absence of Patl2, expression levels of a select number of highly relevant genes involved in oocyte maturation and early embryonic development are deregulated. In conclusion, PATL2 is a novel actor of mammalian oocyte maturation whose invalidation causes OMD in humans.
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- Marie Christou-Kent
- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,UM GI-DPI, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.,Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- IRMB, INSERM U1183, CHRU Montpellier, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Grenoble Neuroscience Institute, INSERM 1216, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,UM GI-DPI, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.,UM de Génétique Chromosomique, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Service de Médecine de la Reproduction, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Jean Verdier, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Bondy, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,UM GI-DPI, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.,UM de Génétique Chromosomique, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis, Tunisia
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- Grenoble Neuroscience Institute, INSERM 1216, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.,UM GI-DPI, CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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- Genetics, Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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Nsota Mbango JF, Coutton C, Arnoult C, Ray PF, Touré A. Genetic causes of male infertility: snapshot on morphological abnormalities of the sperm flagellum. Basic Clin Androl 2019; 29:2. [PMID: 30867909 PMCID: PMC6398242 DOI: 10.1186/s12610-019-0083-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Male infertility due to Multiple Morphological Abnormalities of the sperm Flagella (MMAF), is characterized by nearly total asthenozoospermia due to the presence of a mosaic of sperm flagellar anomalies, which corresponds to short, angulated, absent flagella and flagella of irregular calibre. In the last four years, 7 novel genes whose mutations account for 45% of a cohort of 78 MMAF individuals were identified: DNAH1, CFAP43, CFAP44, CFAP69, FSIP2, WDR66 (CFAP251), AK7. This successful outcome results from the efficient combination of high-throughput sequencing technologies together with robust and complementary approaches for functional validation, in vitro, and in vivo using the mouse and unicellular model organisms such as the flagellated parasite T. brucei. Importantly, these genes are distinct from genes responsible for Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD), an autosomal recessive disease associated with both respiratory cilia and sperm flagellum defects, and their mutations therefore exclusively lead to male infertility. In the future, these genetic findings will definitely improve the diagnosis efficiency of male infertility and might provide genotype-phenotype correlations, which could be helpful for the prognosis of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) performed with sperm from MMAF patients. In addition, functional study of these novel genes should improve our knowledge about the protein networks and molecular mechanisms involved in mammalian sperm flagellum structure and beating.
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- Jean-Fabrice Nsota Mbango
- 1INSERMU1016, CNRS UMR8104, Université Paris Descartes, 75014 Paris, France.,2Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, 75014 Paris, France.,3Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75014 Paris, France
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- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000 Grenoble, France.,5CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, 38000 Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- 1INSERMU1016, CNRS UMR8104, Université Paris Descartes, 75014 Paris, France.,2Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, 75014 Paris, France.,3Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75014 Paris, France
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Neiveyans M, Melhem R, Arnoult C, Bourquard T, Jarlier M, Busson M, Laroche A, Cerutti M, Pugnière M, Ternant D, Gaborit N, Chardès T, Poupon A, Gouilleux-Gruart V, Pèlegrin A, Poul MA. A recycling anti-transferrin receptor-1 monoclonal antibody as an efficient therapy for erythroleukemia through target up-regulation and antibody-dependent cytotoxic effector functions. MAbs 2019; 11:593-605. [PMID: 30604643 PMCID: PMC6512944 DOI: 10.1080/19420862.2018.1564510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Targeting transferrin receptor 1 (TfR1) with monoclonal antibodies is a promising therapeutic strategy in cancer as tumor cells often overexpress TfR1 and show increased iron needs. We have re-engineered six anti-human TfR1 single-chain variable fragment (scFv) antibodies into fully human scFv2-Fcγ1 and IgG1 antibodies. We selected the more promising candidate (H7), based on its ability to inhibit TfR1-mediated iron-loaded transferrin internalization in Raji cells (B-cell lymphoma). The H7 antibody displayed nanomolar affinity for its target in both formats (scFv2-Fcγ1 and IgG1), but cross-reacted with mouse TfR1 only in the scFv2-Fc format. H7 reduced the intracellular labile iron pool and, contrary to what has been observed with previously described anti-TfR1 antibodies, upregulated TfR1 level in Raji cells. H7 scFv2-Fc format elimination half-life was similar in FcRn knock-out and wild type mice, suggesting that TfR1 recycling contributes to prevent H7 elimination in vivo. In vitro, H7 inhibited the growth of erythroleukemia and B-cell lymphoma cell lines (IC50 0.1 µg/mL) and induced their apoptosis. Moreover, the Im9 B-cell lymphoma cell line, which is resistant to apoptosis induced by rituximab (anti-CD20 antibody), was sensitive to H7. In vivo, tumor regression was observed in nude mice bearing ERY-1 erythroleukemia cell xenografts treated with H7 through a mechanism that involved iron deprivation and antibody-dependent cytotoxic effector functions. Therefore, targeting TfR1 using the fully human anti-TfR1 H7 is a promising tool for the treatment of leukemia and lymphoma.
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- Madeline Neiveyans
- a IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier ; INSERM, U1194, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier , France.,b ICM , Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier , Montpellier , France
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- a IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier ; INSERM, U1194, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier , France.,b ICM , Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier , Montpellier , France
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- c CNRS , GICC UMR 7292 , Tours , France.,d Université François Rabelais de Tours , Tours , France
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- e UMR INRA CNRS Physiologie de la reproduction et des comportements, Université François Rabelais de Tours , Nouzilly , France
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- b ICM , Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier , Montpellier , France
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- a IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier ; INSERM, U1194, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier , France.,b ICM , Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier , Montpellier , France
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- a IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier ; INSERM, U1194, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier , France.,b ICM , Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier , Montpellier , France
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- g PP2I, Plateforme Protéomique et Interactions Moléculaires , IRCM
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- c CNRS , GICC UMR 7292 , Tours , France.,d Université François Rabelais de Tours , Tours , France.,h CHRU de Tours, Department of medical pharmacology , Tours , France
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- a IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier ; INSERM, U1194, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier , France.,b ICM , Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier , Montpellier , France
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- a IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier ; INSERM, U1194, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier , France.,b ICM , Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier , Montpellier , France
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- e UMR INRA CNRS Physiologie de la reproduction et des comportements, Université François Rabelais de Tours , Nouzilly , France
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- c CNRS , GICC UMR 7292 , Tours , France.,d Université François Rabelais de Tours , Tours , France
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- a IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier ; INSERM, U1194, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier , France.,b ICM , Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier , Montpellier , France
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- a IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier ; INSERM, U1194, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier , France.,b ICM , Institut régional du Cancer de Montpellier , Montpellier , France
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Coutton C, Martinez G, Kherraf ZE, Amiri-Yekta A, Boguenet M, Saut A, He X, Zhang F, Cristou-Kent M, Escoffier J, Bidart M, Satre V, Conne B, Fourati Ben Mustapha S, Halouani L, Marrakchi O, Makni M, Latrous H, Kharouf M, Pernet-Gallay K, Bonhivers M, Hennebicq S, Rives N, Dulioust E, Touré A, Gourabi H, Cao Y, Zouari R, Hosseini SH, Nef S, Thierry-Mieg N, Arnoult C, Ray PF. Bi-allelic Mutations in ARMC2 Lead to Severe Astheno-Teratozoospermia Due to Sperm Flagellum Malformations in Humans and Mice. Am J Hum Genet 2019; 104:331-340. [PMID: 30686508 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Male infertility is a major health concern. Among its different causes, multiple morphological abnormalities of the flagella (MMAF) induces asthenozoospermia and is one of the most severe forms of qualitative sperm defects. Sperm of affected men display short, coiled, absent, and/or irregular flagella. To date, six genes (DNAH1, CFAP43, CFAP44, CFAP69, FSIP2, and WDR66) have been found to be recurrently associated with MMAF, but more than half of the cases analyzed remain unresolved, suggesting that many yet-uncharacterized gene defects account for this phenotype. Here, whole-exome sequencing (WES) was performed on 168 infertile men who had a typical MMAF phenotype. Five unrelated affected individuals carried a homozygous deleterious mutation in ARMC2, a gene not previously linked to the MMAF phenotype. Using the CRISPR-Cas9 technique, we generated homozygous Armc2 mutant mice, which also presented an MMAF phenotype, thus confirming the involvement of ARMC2 in human MMAF. Immunostaining experiments in AMRC2-mutated individuals and mutant mice evidenced the absence of the axonemal central pair complex (CPC) proteins SPAG6 and SPEF2, whereas the other tested axonemal and peri-axonemal components were present, suggesting that ARMC2 is involved in CPC assembly and/or stability. Overall, we showed that bi-allelic mutations in ARMC2 cause male infertility in humans and mice by inducing a typical MMAF phenotype, indicating that this gene is necessary for sperm flagellum structure and assembly.
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- Charles Coutton
- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France; Unité Médicale (UM) de Génétique Chromosomique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble 38000, France.
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France; Unité Médicale (UM) de Génétique Chromosomique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France; Unité Médicale de génétique de l'infertilité et de diagnostic pré-implantatoire (GI-DPI), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France; Unité Médicale de génétique de l'infertilité et de diagnostic pré-implantatoire (GI-DPI), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble 38000, France; Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, the Academic Center for Education, Culture, and Research, PO Box 16635-148, Tehran, Iran
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Medicine Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
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- Institute of Metabolism and Integrative Biology, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200011, China
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Clinatec, Pôle Recherche, Inserm UMR 1205, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble, Alpes, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France; Unité Médicale (UM) de Génétique Chromosomique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia
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- Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, Université de Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5234, Bordeaux 33000, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France; Unité fonctionnelle de Biologie de la Procréation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, Grenoble 38000, France
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- EA 4308 Gametogenesis and Gamete Quality, Department of Reproductive Biology-CECOS, Rouen University Hospital, UNIROUEN, Normandie Université, 76000 Rouen, France; Institut de Recherche en Santé, Environnement, et Travail, Inserm U1085, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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- Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie et de la Biologie de la Reproduction, Groupe Hospitalier Cochin, Broca, et Hôtel Dieu, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France; Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France; Inserm U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 8104, Paris 75014, France
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- Department of Genetics, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, the Academic Center for Education, Culture, and Research, PO Box 16635-148, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Medicine Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, China
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- Polyclinique les Jasmins, Centre d'Aide Médicale à la Procréation, Centre Urbain Nord, Tunis 1003, Tunisia
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- Department of Andrology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, the Academic Center for Education, Culture, and Research, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Téchniques de l'Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité et Informatiques, Mathématiques, Applications, Grenoble (TIMC-IMAG), Biologie Computationnelle et Mathématique (BCM), 38000 Grenoble 38000, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France
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- Team Genetics Epigenetics and Therapies of Infertility, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1209, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5309, Grenoble 38000, France; Unité Médicale de génétique de l'infertilité et de diagnostic pré-implantatoire (GI-DPI), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble 38000, France.
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Lorès P, Coutton C, El Khouri E, Stouvenel L, Givelet M, Thomas L, Rode B, Schmitt A, Louis B, Sakheli Z, Chaudhry M, Fernandez-Gonzales A, Mitsialis A, Dacheux D, Wolf JP, Papon JF, Gacon G, Escudier E, Arnoult C, Bonhivers M, Savinov SN, Amselem S, Ray PF, Dulioust E, Touré A. Homozygous missense mutation L673P in adenylate kinase 7 (AK7) leads to primary male infertility and multiple morphological anomalies of the flagella but not to primary ciliary dyskinesia. Hum Mol Genet 2019; 27:1196-1211. [PMID: 29365104 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddy034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Accepted: 01/16/2018] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Motile cilia and sperm flagella share an extremely conserved microtubule-based cytoskeleton, called the axoneme, which sustains beating and motility of both organelles. Ultra-structural and/or functional defects of this axoneme are well-known to cause primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a disorder characterized by recurrent respiratory tract infections, chronic otitis media, situs inversus, male infertility and in most severe cases, hydrocephalus. Only recently, mutations in genes encoding axonemal proteins with preferential expression in the testis were identified in isolated male infertility; in those cases, individuals displayed severe asthenozoospermia due to Multiple Morphological Abnormalities of the sperm Flagella (MMAF) but not PCD features. In this study, we performed genetic investigation of two siblings presenting MMAF without any respiratory PCD features, and we report the identification of the c.2018T > G (p.Leu673Pro) transversion in AK7, encoding an adenylate kinase, expressed in ciliated tissues and testis. By performing transcript and protein analyses of biological samples from individual carrying the transversion, we demonstrate that this mutation leads to the loss of AK7 protein in sperm cells but not in respiratory ciliated cells, although both cell types carry the mutated transcript and no tissue-specific isoforms were detected. This work therefore, supports the notion that proteins shared by both cilia and sperm flagella may have specific properties and/or function in each organelle, in line with the differences in their mode of assembly and organization. Overall, this work identifies a novel genetic cause of asthenozoospermia due to MMAF and suggests that in humans, more deleterious mutations of AK7 might induce PCD.
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- Patrick Lorès
- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France.,CHU Grenoble Alpes, UM de Génétique Chromosomique, Grenoble, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM UMR S933, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), Paris 75012, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- Equipe 13, INSERM UMR S955, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Est, CNRS ERL7240, Créteil 94000, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- Division of Newborn Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Université de Bordeaux, Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, CNRS UMR 5234, Bordeaux, France.,Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, UMR-CNRS 5234, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie-Biologie de la Reproduction, GH Cochin Broca Hôtel Dieu, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- Equipe 13, INSERM UMR S955, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Est, CNRS ERL7240, Créteil 94000, France.,Service d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie et de Chirurgie Cervico-Maxillo-Faciale, Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre 94275, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre F-94275, France
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- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- INSERM UMR S933, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), Paris 75012, France.,Service de Génétique et d'Embryologie Médicales, Hôpital Armand Trousseau, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75012, France
| | - Christophe Arnoult
- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité, Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux, UMR-CNRS 5234, F-33000 Bordeaux, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie-Biologie de la Reproduction, GH Cochin Broca Hôtel Dieu, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
| | - Serge Amselem
- INSERM UMR S933, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), Paris 75012, France.,Service de Génétique et d'Embryologie Médicales, Hôpital Armand Trousseau, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75012, France
| | - Pierre F Ray
- Institut for Advanced Biosciences, INSERM U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France.,CHU de Grenoble, UM GI-DPI, Grenoble F-38000, France
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- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France.,Laboratoire d'Histologie Embryologie-Biologie de la Reproduction, GH Cochin Broca Hôtel Dieu, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris 75014, France
| | - Aminata Touré
- INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8104, Paris 75014, France.,Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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Christou-Kent M, Ray PF, Arnoult C. [Oocyte maturation failure: an essential role for the protein PATL2 in human oogenesis]. Med Sci (Paris) 2019; 34:1042-1045. [PMID: 30623758 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2018287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Marie Christou-Kent
- Génétique, épigénétique et thérapies de l'Infertilité, Institut pour l'avancée des biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
| | - Pierre F Ray
- Génétique, épigénétique et thérapies de l'Infertilité, Institut pour l'avancée des biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France - Unité de génétique de l'infertilité et diagnostic pré-implantatoire, CHU de Grenoble, 38000 Grenoble, France
| | - Christophe Arnoult
- Génétique, épigénétique et thérapies de l'Infertilité, Institut pour l'avancée des biosciences, Inserm U1209, CNRS UMR 5309, université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France
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