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Reduced fertility in mice deficient for the POU protein sperm-1.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 8 Jul 1997
Pearse R V, Drolet D W, Kalla K A, Hooshmand F, Bermingham J R, Rosenfeld M G
Abstract excerpt
Members of the POU-homeodomain gene family encode transcriptional regulatory molecules that play important roles in terminal differentiation of many organ systems. Sperm-1 (Sprm-1) is a POU domain factor that is exclusively expressed in the differentiating male germ cell. We show here that the Sprm-1 protein is expressed in the haploid spermatid and that 129/Sv Sprm-1(-/-) mice are subfertile when compared with...
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