Abstract：
:Mutations in mes-2, mes-3, mes-4, and mes-6 result in maternal-effect sterility: hermaphrodite offspring of mes/mes mothers are sterile because of underproliferation and death of the germ cells, as well as an absence of gametes. Mutant germ cells do not undergo programmed cell death, but instead undergo a necrotic-type death, and their general poor health apparently prevents surviving germ cells from forming gametes. Male offspring of mes mothers display a significantly less severe germline phenotype than their hermaphrodite siblings, and males are often fertile. This differential response of hermaphrodite and male offspring to the absence of mes+ product is a result of their different X chromosome compositions; regardless of their sexual phenotype, XX worms display a more severe germline phenotype than XO worms, and XXX worms display the most severe phenotype. The sensitivity of the mutant phenotype to chromosome dosage, along with the similarity of two MES proteins to chromatin-associated regulators of gene expression in Drosophila, suggest that the essential role of the mes genes is in control of gene expression in the germline. An additional, nonessential role of the mes genes in the soma is suggested by the surprising finding that mutations in the mes genes, like mutations in dosage compensation genes, feminize animals whose male sexual identity is somewhat ambiguous. We hypothesize that the mes genes encode maternally supplied regulators of chromatin structure and gene expression in the germline and perhaps in somatic cells of the early embryo, and that at least some of their targets are on the X chromosomes.
journal_name
Geneticsjournal_title
Geneticsauthors
Garvin C,Holdeman R,Strome Ssubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-01-01 00:00:00pages
167-85issue
1eissn
0016-6731issn
1943-2631journal_volume
148pub_type
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