ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2020
Survival Motor Neuron Protein Participates in Mouse Germ Cell Development and Spermatogonium Maintenance.
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- Comorbidities in spinal muscular atrophy and their impact on the course of the underlying disease: a real-life observational study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Observational
- Spinal muscular atrophy is also a disorder of spermatogenesis.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2024Article
- Male Reproduction in Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and the Potential Impact of Oral Survival of Motor Neuron 2 (SMN2) Pre-mRNA Splicing Modifiers.Neurology and therapy · 2024Article
- Motor defects in a Drosophila model for spinal muscular atrophy result from SMN depletion during early neurogenesis.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Protein expression reveals a molecular sexual identity of avian primordial germ cells at pre-gonadal stages.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Spinal muscular atrophy: Broad disease spectrum and sex-specific phenotypes.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease · 2021Review
- Effects of Survival Motor Neuron Protein on Germ Cell Development in Mouse and Human.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- The First Orally Deliverable Small Molecule for the Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy.Neuroscience insights · 2020Review
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Abstract
The defective human survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene leads to spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the most common genetic cause of infant mortality. We previously reported that loss of SMN results in rapid differentiation of Drosophila germline stem cells and mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs), indicating that SMN also plays important roles in germ cell development and stem cell biology. Here, we show that in healthy mice, SMN is highly expressed in the gonadal tissues, prepubertal spermatogonia, and adult spermatocytes, whereas low SMN expression is found in differentiated spermatid and sperm. In SMA-like mice, the growth of testis tissues is retarded, accompanied with gamete development abnormalities and loss of the spermatogonia-specific marker. Consistently, knockdown of Smn1 in spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) leads to a compromised regeneration capacity in vitro and in vivo in transplantation experiments. In SMA-like mice, apoptosis and accumulation of the R-loop structure were significantly elevated, indicating that SMN plays a critical role in the survival of male germ cells. The present work demonstrates that SMN, in addition to its critical roles in neuronal development, participates in mouse germ cell and spermatogonium maintenance.
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