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(American Journal of Pathology. 2007;171:1800-1810.)
© 2007 American Society for Investigative Pathology
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2007.070261

Loss of Partitioning-Defective-3/Isotype-Specific Interacting Protein (Par-3/ASIP) in the Elongating Spermatid of RA175 (IGSF4A/SynCAM)-Deficient Mice

Eriko Fujita*, Yuko Tanabe*{dagger}, Tomonori Hirose{ddagger}, Michel Aurrand-Lions§, Tadashi Kasahara{dagger}, Beat A. Imhof§, Shigeo Ohno{ddagger} and Takashi Momoi*

From the Division of Differentiation and Development, Department of Inherited Metabolic Disorder,* National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan; the Department of Biochemistry,{dagger} Kyoritsu University of Pharmacy, Tokyo, Japan; the Department of Molecular Biology,{ddagger} Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Yokohama City University School of Medical Science, Yokohama, Japan; and the Department of Pathology and Immunology,§ University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

IGSF4a/RA175/SynCAM (RA175) and junctional adhesion molecules (Jams) are members of the immunoglobulin superfamily with a PDZ-binding domain at their C termini. Deficiency of Ra175 (Ra175–/–) as well as Jam-C deficiency (Jam-C–/–) causes the defect of the spermatid differentiation, oligo-astheno-teratozoospermia. Ra175–/– elongating spermatids fail to mature further, whereas Jam-C–/– round spermatids lose cell polarity, and most of Jam-C–/– elongated spermatids are completely lost. RA175 and Jam-C seem to have similar but distinct functional roles during spermatid differentiation. Here we show that the cell polarity protein Par-3 with PDZ domains, a binding partner of Jams, is one of the associated proteins of the cytoplasmic region of RA175 in testis. Par-3 and Jam-C are partly co-localized with RA175 in the elongating and elongated spermatids; their distributions overlapped with that of RA175 on the tips of the dorsal region of the head of the elongating spermatid (steps 9 to 12) in the wild type. In the Ra175–/– elongating spermatid, Par-3 was absent, and Jam-C was absent or abnormally localized. The RA175 formed a ternary complex with Jam-C via interaction with Par-3. The lack of the ternary complex in the Ra175–/– elongating spermatid may cause the defect of the specialized adhesion structures, resulting in the oligo-astheno-teratozoospermia.






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