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Oligoasthenoteratozoospermia (OAT) is characterized as low sperm count, decreased sperm motility and structural abnormalities of the sperm head in the same patient. However, very few studies reported the genetic alterations associated with OAT. Here we report a 38-year-old patient with OAT from a consanguineous family, with 2-6â¯million/mL sperm density, 2.1-3.8% normal sperm morphology and immotile sperm. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) identified homozygous variant c.1259A>G:p.Y420C in the TDRD6 gene. TDRD6 is a testis-specific expressed protein that was localized to the chromatoid bodies in germ cells and played an important role in the nonsense-mediated decay pathway. This rare variant co-segregated with the OAT phenotype in this family. Bioinformatic analysis also suggested the variant a pathogenic mutation. Two intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles were carried out in the patient's wife, but she did not become pregnant after embryo transfer. So the mutations in TDRD6 may be associated with human male infertility and early embryonic lethality.
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Oligospermia/genética , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Ribonucleoproteínas/genética , Adulto , Consanguinidade , Feminino , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Humanos , Masculino , Degradação do RNAm Mediada por Códon sem Sentido , Especificidade de Órgãos , Linhagem , Gravidez , Testículo/química , Sequenciamento do ExomaRESUMO
AIM: To study the secretory expression of human hepatocyte growth factor (hdHGF) gene in Pichia pastoris. METHODS: The full-length gene of human cDNA encoding the deleted variant of hdHGF was cloned by RT-PCR and overlapping-fragment PCR technique using mRNA of human placenta as a template. The cloned hdHGF cDNA was inserted into the Escherichia coli-yeast shuttle vector of pPIC9. The constructed plasmid, pPIC9-hdHGF, was transformed into the GS115 cells of the methylotrophic yeast, P pastoris, using a chemical method. The Mut(+ ) transformants were screened to obtain high-expression strains by the test and analysis of expressed products of shake-flask culture. A secretory form of rhdHGF was made with the aid of the leader peptide sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-factor. RESULTS: The expressed products, which showed a band of molecular mass of about 80 ku, were observed on 15% SDS-PAGE and identified by Western blotting and N-terminal amino acid sequencing. In the high cell density culture of 5 L fermentor by fed-batch culture protocol, the cell biomass was reached at approximately 135 g (DCW)/L. The productivity of secreted total supernant protein concentration attained a high-level expression of more than 8.0 g/L and the ratio of rhdHGF band area was about 12.3% of the total band area scanned by SDS-PAGE analysis, which estimated that the product of rhdHGF was 500-900 mg/L. CONCLUSION: The P pastoris system represents an attractive tool of generating large quantities of hdHGF for both research and industrial purposes.
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Fator de Crescimento de Hepatócito/genética , Pichia/genética , Sequência de Bases , Clonagem Molecular , DNA/genética , Fermentação , Expressão Gênica , Variação Genética , Fator de Crescimento de Hepatócito/biossíntese , Humanos , Técnicas In Vitro , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/biossíntese , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/genética , Plasmídeos/genética , Proteínas Recombinantes/biossíntese , Proteínas Recombinantes/genética , Deleção de SequênciaRESUMO
Human parathyroid hormone (hPTH) was highly expressed in Escherichia coli by inserted the synthesized whole hPTH cDNA into the vectors pBV220 and pET22b. After expression and disruption, the purified product was acquired through cation exchange chromatography and reverse phase chromatography. From the results of N-terminal sequencing and MALDI-TOF-MS analysis the recombiant prtein was indentified as intact hPTH. In in vitro Bioassays the recombinant hPTH stimulated adenylate cyclase as the standard did. In ovariectomized rats the recombinant hPTH markedly increased the femoral bone mass and bone mineral density.
