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Dev Biol ; 512: 13-25, 2024 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38703942

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Drosophila melanogaster is an ideal model organism for investigating spermatogenesis due to its powerful genetics, conserved genes and visible morphology of germ cells during sperm production. Our previous work revealed that ocnus (ocn) knockdown resulted in male sterility, and CG9920 was identified as a significantly downregulated protein in fly abdomen after ocn knockdown, suggesting a role of CG9920 in male reproduction. In this study, we found that CG9920 was highly expressed in fly testes. CG9920 knockdown in fly testes caused male infertility with no mature sperms in seminal vesicles. Immunofluorescence staining showed that depletion of CG9920 resulted in scattered spermatid nuclear bundles, fewer elongation cones that did not migrate to the anterior region of the testis, and almost no individualization complexes. Transmission electron microscopy revealed that CG9920 knockdown severely disrupted mitochondrial morphogenesis during spermatogenesis. Notably, we found that CG9920 might not directly interact with Ocn, but rather was inhibited by STAT92E, which itself was indirectly affected by Ocn. We propose a possible novel pathway essential for spermatogenesis in D. melanogaster, whereby Ocn indirectly induces CG9920 expression, potentially counteracting its inhibition by the JAK-STAT signaling pathway.


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Proteínas de Drosophila , Drosophila melanogaster , Mitocondrias , Espermatogénesis , Testículo , Animales , Espermatogénesis/genética , Espermatogénesis/fisiología , Masculino , Drosophila melanogaster/metabolismo , Proteínas de Drosophila/metabolismo , Proteínas de Drosophila/genética , Mitocondrias/metabolismo , Testículo/metabolismo , Morfogénesis/genética , Transducción de Señal , Infertilidad Masculina/genética , Infertilidad Masculina/metabolismo , Técnicas de Silenciamiento del Gen , Factores de Transcripción STAT/metabolismo , Espermátides/metabolismo
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