Azoospermia in patients heterozygous for a mutation in SYCP3

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Miyamoto, T
Hasuike, S
Yogev, L
Maduro, MR
Ishikawa, M
Westphal, H
Lamb, DJ [1 ]
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[1] Baylor Coll Med, Scott Dept Urol, Houston, TX 77030 USA
[2] NICHHD, Lab Mammalian Genes & Dev, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
[3] Asahikawa Med Coll, Dept Obstet & Gynecol, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 078, Japan
[4] Lis Matern Hosp, Tel Aviv Sourasky Med Ctr, Inst Study Fertil, Tel Aviv, Israel
[5] Baylor Coll Med, Dept Mol & Cellular Biol, Houston, TX 77030 USA
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10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14845-3
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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Background Many cases of male infertility are diagnosed as idiopathic, reflecting poor understanding of the molecular defects underlying the abnormality. As more gene mutations causing male infertility in mice become known, there are improving prospects that knowledge about the genetic aetiology of human male infertility can be expanded. Sycp3 encodes a component of the synaptonemal complex. A null mutation of Sycp3 in mice causes azoospermia with meiotic arrest. We tested the hypothesis that mutation of the human testis-specific SYCP3 is associated with human nonobstructive azoospermia. Methods Human SYCP3 was isolated on the basis of homology between mouse Sycp3 cDNA and human genome sequences at the aminoacid level. Tissue-specific expression of SYCP3 was analysed by PCR of human cDNA. Samples of DNA from 19 azoospermic patients with maturation arrest and 75 normal fertile control men were screened for mutations in the SYCP3 gene by sequence analysis of the gene. The functional significance of the mutations found was analysed by a protein interaction study of the wild-type and truncated SYCP3 proteins. Findings We identified in two patients a 1 bp deletion (643delA) that results in a premature stop codon and truncation of the C-terminal, coiled-coil-forming region of the SYCP3 protein. The mutant protein showed greatly reduced interaction with the wild-type protein in vitro and interfered with SYCP3 fibre formation in cultured cells. Interpretation We suggest that SYCP3 has an essential meiotic function in human spermatogenesis that is compromised by the mutant protein via dominant negative interference.
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