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Dpy19l2-deficient globozoospermic sperm display altered genome packaging and DNA damage that compromises the initiation of embryo development.

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:We recently identified the DPY19L2 gene as the main genetic cause of human globozoospermia. Non-genetically characterized cases of globozoospermia were associated with DNA alterations, suggesting that DPY19L2-dependent globozoospermia may be associated with poor DNA quality. However the origins of such defects have not yet been characterized and the consequences on the quality of embryos generated with globozoospermic sperm remain to be determined. Using the mouse model lacking Dpy19l2, we compared several key steps of nuclear compaction. We show that the kinetics of appearance and disappearance of the histone H4 acetylation waves and of transition proteins are defective. More importantly, the nuclear invasion by protamines does not occur. As a consequence, we showed that globozoospermic sperm presented with poor sperm chromatin compaction and sperm DNA integrity breakdown. We next assessed the developmental consequences of using such faulty sperm by performing ICSI. We showed in the companion article that oocyte activation (OA) with globozoospermic sperm is very poor and due to the absence of phospholipase Cζ; therefore artificial OA (AOA) was used to bypass defective OA. Herein, we evaluated the developmental potential of embryos generated by ICSI + AOA in mice. We demonstrate that although OA was fully rescued, preimplantation development was impaired when using globozoospermic sperm. In human, a small number of embryos could be generated with sperm from DPY19L2-deleted patients in the absence of AOA and these embryos also showed a poor developmental potential. In conclusion, we show that chromatin compaction during spermiogenesis in Dpy19l2 KO mouse is defective and leads to sperm DNA damage. Most of the DNA breaks were already present when the sperm reached the epididymis, indicating that they occurred inside the testis. This result thus suggests that testicular sperm extraction in Dpy19l2-dependent globozoospermia is not recommended. These defects may largely explain the poor embryonic development of most mouse and human embryos obtained with globozoospermic sperm.

journal_name

Mol Hum Reprod

journal_title

Molecular human reproduction

authors

Yassine S,Escoffier J,Martinez G,Coutton C,Karaouzène T,Zouari R,Ravanat JL,Metzler-Guillemain C,Lee HC,Fissore R,Hennebicq S,Ray PF,Arnoult C

doi

10.1093/molehr/gau099

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-02-01 00:00:00

pages

169-85

issue

eissn

1360-9947

issn

1460-2407

pii

gau099

journal_volume

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Dpy19l2-deficient globozoospermic sperm display altered genome packaging and DNA damage that compromises the initiation of embryo development.