Project description:Leptotene and zygote (LZ) spematocytes at P11, P16, and P21 were compared by small-RNA-seq. The P21 data has been published under GSE70891. This revealed that, the late piRNA clusters were rarely expressed in P11 LZ spermatocytes, but started to be expressed at P16. Whereas previous reports analysing testicular RNAs showed that "prepachytene" piRNAs are short (25–28 nt) , this study revealed that piRNAs derived from the late piRNA clusters in P16 and P21 LZ spermatocytes contained both short (25–28 nt) and long (29–31 nt) piRNAs.
Project description:Expression profiling of isolated populations of prepachytene spermatocytes (LP), pachytene spermatocytes (RP) and spermatids (ST) from PWD and B6 was performed to study the genome wide variation in gene expression between two mouse subspecies. To evaluate the transcriptional difference between B6 and PWD in during meiosis, we compared their transcriptomes in sorted populations of pre-pachytene primary spermatocytes (Leptonema, Zygotene and Pachytene), pachytene spermatocytes (Mid-late pachytene and diplotene) and spermatids.
Project description:Expression profiling of isolated populations of prepachytene spermatocytes (LP), pachytene spermatocytes (RP) and spermatids (ST) from PWD and B6 was performed to study the genome wide variation in gene expression between two mouse subspecies. To evaluate the transcriptional difference between B6 and PWD in during meiosis, we compared their transcriptomes in sorted populations of pre-pachytene primary spermatocytes (Leptonema, Zygotene and Pachytene), pachytene spermatocytes (Mid-late pachytene and diplotene) and spermatids. Populations of pre-pachytene spermatocytes, pachytene spermatocytes and spermatids were isolated from PWD and B6 mice. All populations were isolated in duplicates from two animals. Hence, RNA was prepared from 12 samples (= 2 strains x 3 tissues x 2 replicas) and was then subject to labeling and hybridization on microarray chips.
Project description:To investigate the role of HSF5 protein in mouse reproduction, We collected WT or Hsf5+/- (control) and Hsf5-/- testes at postnatal day 16 (P16) for RNA sequencing.
Project description:The Mfn2 gene was conditionally knock-out from male mice germ cells using Stra8-Cre mice. The spermatocytes were collected from PD 24 and PD 52 male mice, and were further isolated as pachytene cells (P) and leptotene/zygotene cells (L/Z). The transcriptome between MFN2 WT and MFN2 cKO spermatocytes were analyzed via RNA-seq in P and L/Z populations at different ages, PD 24 amd PD 52, respectively.