Well-defined genome architecture in the human sperm nucleus.

Abstract:

:Using fluorescence in situ hybridization, conventional epifluorescence microscopy, and laser scanning confocal microscopy followed by three-dimensional reconstruction we describe a well-defined higher order packaging of the human genome in the sperm cell nucleus. This was determined by the spatial localization of centromere and telomere regions of all chromosomes and supported by localization of subtelomere sequences of chromosome 3 and the entire chromosome 2. The nuclear architecture in the human sperm is characterized by the clustering of the 23 centromeres into a compact chromocenter positioned well inside the nucleus. The ends of the chromosomes are exposed to the nuclear periphery where both the subtelomere and the telomere sequences of the chromosome arms are joined into dimers. Thus chromosomes in the human sperm nucleus are looped into a hairpin-like configuration. The biological implications of this nuclear architecture in spermatogenesis and male pronuclear formation following fertilization are discussed.

journal_name

Chromosoma

journal_title

Chromosoma

authors

Zalensky AO,Allen MJ,Kobayashi A,Zalenskaya IA,Balhórn R,Bradbury EM

doi

10.1007/BF00357684

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-05-01 00:00:00

pages

577-90

issue

9

eissn

0009-5915

issn

1432-0886

journal_volume

103

pub_type

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