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Dual DNA staining enables isolation of multiple sub-types of post-replicative mouse male germ cells.

ABSTRACT: During spermatogenesis, mammalian male germ cells undergo multiple developmental processes, including meiosis and post-meiotic differentiation (spermiogenesis). To understand the transitions between different cellular states it is essential to isolate pure populations of cells at different stages of development. Previous approaches enabled the isolation of cells from different stages of meiotic prophase I, but techniques to sub-fractionate unfixed, post-meiotic spermatids have been lacking. Here we report the development of a protocol enabling simultaneous isolation of cells at different stages of meiotic prophase and post-meiotic differentiation from testes of adult mice. This approach builds on existing fluorescence activated cell sorting protocols designed to purify cells in different stages of meiotic prophase I. By utilizing the specific spectral properties that two different DNA dyes (Hoechst 33342 and SYTO 16) exhibit when bound to chromatin of different stage male germ cells, we obtain highly pure populations of cells in relatively large numbers. This FACS protocol will enable immunocytological and molecular characterization studies of fractionated meiotic and haploid germ cells from both wild type and genetically mutant animals.

SUBMITTER: Gill ME

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9303198 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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