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p53 controls low DNA damage-dependent premeiotic checkpoint and facilitates DNA repair during spermatogenesis.
Cell growth & differentiation : the molecular biology journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Oct 1999
Schwartz D, Goldfinger N, Kam Z, Rotter V
Abstract excerpt
Previously, it was implicated that p53 plays a role in spermatogenesis. Here we report that p53 knockout mice exhibit significantly less mature motile spermatozoa than their p53(+/+) counterparts. To better understand the role of p53 in spermatogenesis, we analyzed the response of spermatogenic cells to DNA insult during prophase. It was found that although low-level gamma-irradiation activated a p53-dependent...
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