ArticleThe EMBO journal2002
Brain abnormalities, defective meiotic chromosome synapsis and female subfertility in HSF2 null mice.
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- HSF5 Deficiency Causes Male Infertility Involving Spermatogenic Arrest at Meiotic Prophase I in Humans and Mice.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
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- Atypical heat shock transcription factor HSF5 is critical for male meiotic prophase under non-stress conditions.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Genetic variants underlying spermatogenic arrests in men with non-obstructive azoospermia.Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) · 2023Article
- CBP-HSF2 structural and functional interplay in Rubinstein-Taybi neurodevelopmental disorder.Nature communications · 2022Article
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- Binding of the HSF-1 DNA-binding domain to multimeric C. elegans consensus HSEs is guided by cooperative interactions.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Advances of Heat Shock Family in Ulcerative Colitis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- BRCA2 binding through a cryptic repeated motif to HSF2BP oligomers does not impact meiotic recombination.Nature communications · 2021Article
- The proteostasis guardian HSF1 directs the transcription of its paralog and interactor HSF2 during proteasome dysfunction.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021Article
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Abstract
Heat shock factor 2, one of the four vertebrate HSFs, transcriptional regulators of heat shock gene expression, is active during embryogenesis and spermatogenesis, with unknown functions and targets. By disrupting the Hsf2 gene, we show that, although the lack of HSF2 is not embryonic lethal, Hsf2(-/-) mice suffer from brain abnormalities, and meiotic and gameto genesis defects in both genders. The disturbances in brain are characterized by the enlargement of lateral and third ventricles and the reduction of hippocampus and striatum, in correlation with HSF2 expression in proliferative cells of the neuroepithelium and in some ependymal cells in adults. Many developing spermatocytes are eliminated via apoptosis in a stage-specific manner in Hsf2(-/-) males, and pachytene spermatocytes also display structural defects in the synaptonemal complexes between homologous chromosomes. Hsf2(-/-) females suffer from multiple fertility defects: the production of abnormal eggs, the reduction in ovarian follicle number and the presence of hemorrhagic cystic follicles are consistent with meiotic defects. Hsf2(-/-) females also display hormone response defects, that can be rescued by superovulation treatment, and exhibit abnormal rates of luteinizing hormone receptor mRNAs.
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