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ReviewTrends in biochemical sciences2009

Coordinating cellular events during spermatogenesis: a biochemical model.

Pearl P Y Lie, C Yan Cheng, Dolores D Mruk

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Review in Trends in biochemical sciences, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed
8.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Kinesins in Mammalian Spermatogenesis and Germ Cell Transport.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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  16. Modeling the effect of cigarette smoke on hexose utilization in spermatocytes.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pearl P Y LieCenter for Biomedical Research, New York, NY 10065, USA.
C Yan Cheng
Dolores D Mruk
Population Council · US

Funding

SPECIALIZED CONTRACEPTIVE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTERU54HD029990 · NICHD · POPULATION COUNCIL · PI CHENG, C. YAN · 1992 to 2016
$27.7M
The biology of blood-testis barrier dynamicsR01HD056034 · NICHD · POPULATION COUNCIL · PI CHENG, C. YAN · 2009 to 2018
$3.4M
An in vivo model to study blood-testis barrier dynamicsR03HD051512 · NICHD · POPULATION COUNCIL · PI CHENG, C. YAN · 2007 to 2008
$143k
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD056034NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD051512NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD029990
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Throughout spermatogenesis, a select pool of germ cells, the leptotene spermatocytes, must traverse the blood-testis barrier (BTB) to enter the adluminal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium. This event requires extensive restructuring of cell junctions, and it must also coincide with germ cell cycle progression in preparation for primary spermatocyte meiosis. Recent findings show that cell-cycle-associated kinases and phosphatases, including mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), participate in the pathways that also direct germ cell adhesion and movement. Our new biochemical model explains, in part, how two distinct cellular events, BTB restructuring and spermiation, are coordinated to maintain spermatogenesis and fertility. In this way, MAPKs would synchronize cell cycle progression in primary spermatocytes with junction remodeling and cell migration across the BTB.

Indexed as

AnimalsBlood-Testis BarrierCell CycleCell MovementDesmosomesHumansIntercellular JunctionsMaleMeiotic Prophase IModels, BiologicalPhosphoprotein PhosphatasesProtein KinasesSpermatogenesisPhosphoprotein PhosphatasesProtein Kinases

Identifiers

PMID19535250
PMCPMC2804915
OpenAlexW2022581791

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