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Post-meiotic shifts in HSPA2/HSP70.2 chaperone activity during mouse spermatogenesis.


ABSTRACT: HSPA2 (formerly HSP70.2) is a testis-specific member of the HSP70 family known to play a critical role in the completion of meiosis during male germ cell differentiation. Although abundantly present in post-meiotic cells, its function during spermiogenesis remained obscure. Here, using a global proteomic approach to identify genome-organizing proteins in condensing spermatids, we discovered an unexpected role for HSPA2, which acquires new functions and becomes tightly associated with major spermatid DNA-packaging proteins, transition proteins 1 and 2. Hence, HSPA2 is identified here as the first transition protein chaperone, and these data shed a new light on the yet totally unknown process of genome-condensing structure assembly in spermatids.

SUBMITTER: Govin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1896149 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Post-meiotic shifts in HSPA2/HSP70.2 chaperone activity during mouse spermatogenesis.

Govin Jérôme J   Caron Cécile C   Escoffier Emmanuelle E   Ferro Myriam M   Kuhn Lauriane L   Rousseaux Sophie S   Eddy Edward M EM   Garin Jérôme J   Khochbin Saadi S  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20061011 49


HSPA2 (formerly HSP70.2) is a testis-specific member of the HSP70 family known to play a critical role in the completion of meiosis during male germ cell differentiation. Although abundantly present in post-meiotic cells, its function during spermiogenesis remained obscure. Here, using a global proteomic approach to identify genome-organizing proteins in condensing spermatids, we discovered an unexpected role for HSPA2, which acquires new functions and becomes tightly associated with major sperm  ...[more]

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