Hybrid sterility-6: a mouse t complex locus controlling sperm flagellar assembly and movement.
Mouse t haplotypes alter sperm differentiation, resulting in abnormal sperm movement and sterility. In previous studies, a locus responsible for hybrid sterility in the genus Mus,Hst-4, was mapped to the distal inversion of the t complex on chromosome 17. Here we report the identification and characterization of two additional hybrid sterility loci, Hst-5 and Hst-6, that map to the same inversion. We further show that an abnormality in sperm flagellar curvature deriving from interactions between t haplotypes and the M. spretus allele of Hst-6 is indistinguishable from one exhibited by sperm from mice carrying two t haplotypes. Additionally, we demonstrate that this latter phenotype maps to the distal inversion of t haplotypes. Morphological and functional studies of Hst-6 mutant sperm also imply that the product(s) of Hst-6 is a spermatogenic-specific protein, important for assembly and function of the sperm axoneme. Thus, Hst-6 provides direct access to the molecular basis of t haplotype-specific alterations in sperm function that emanate from the t complex distal inversion.[1]References
- Hybrid sterility-6: a mouse t complex locus controlling sperm flagellar assembly and movement. Pilder, S.H., Olds-Clarke, P., Phillips, D.M., Silver, L.M. Dev. Biol. (1993) [Pubmed]
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