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Heat shock activates in somatic cells a set of genes encoding heat shock proteins which function as molecular chaperones. The basic mechanism by which these genes are activated is the interaction of the specific transcription factor HSF1 with a regulatory DNA sequence called heat shock element (HSE). In higher eukaryotes HSF1 is present in unstressed cells as inactive monomers which, in response to cellular stress, aggregate into transcriptionally competent homotrimers. In the present paper we showed that the expression of a transgene encoding mutated constitutively active HSF1 placed under the control of a spermatocyte-specific promoter derived from the hst70 gene severely affects spermatogenesis. We found the testes of transgenic mice to be significantly smaller than those of wild-type males and histological analysis showed massive degeneration of the seminiferous epithelium. The lumen of tubules was devoid of spermatids and spermatozoa and using the TUNEL method we demonstrated a high rate of spermatocyte apoptosis. The molecular mechanism by which constitutively active HSF1 arrests spermatogenesis is not known so far. One can assume that HSF1 can either induce or repress so far unknown target genes involved in germ cell apoptosis.
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Arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT) genes were targeted for inhibition using short hairpin RNA (shRNA) using two different RNA polymerase III promoters. Constructs were developed for NAT1 and NAT2, the endogenous mouse genes, and for human NAT1. There were fetal and neonatal deaths with these constructs, perhaps due in part to an interferon response as reflected in increases in oligoadenylate synthetase I mRNA levels. Seven out of 8 founders with the U6 promoter generated offspring but only 2 gave positive offspring. Out of 15 founders for H1 promoted constructs, only 4 had positive offspring. When transgenic lines were successfully established, the expression of the targeted genes was variable between animals and was not generally inhibitory.
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