Hydrocephalus, situs inversus, chronic sinusitis, and male infertility in DNA polymerase lambda-deficient mice: possible implication for the pathogenesis of immotile cilia syndrome.

Molecular and Cellular Biology
Yosuke KobayashiNoboru Motoyama

Abstract

A growing number of DNA polymerases have been identified, although their physiological function and relation to human disease remain mostly unknown. DNA polymerase lambda (Pol lambda; also known as Pol beta2) has recently been identified as a member of the X family of DNA polymerases and shares 32% amino acid sequence identity with DNA Pol beta within the polymerase domain. With the use of homologous recombination, we generated Pol lambda(-/-) mice. Pol lambda(-/-) mice develop hydrocephalus with marked dilation of the lateral ventricles and exhibit a high rate of mortality after birth, although embryonic development appears normal. Pol lambda(-/-) mice also show situs inversus totalis and chronic suppurative sinusitis. The surviving male, but not female, Pol lambda(-/-) mice are sterile as a result of spermatozoal immobility. Microinjection of sperm from male Pol lambda(-/-) mice into oocytes gives rise to normal offspring, suggesting that the meiotic process is not impaired. Ultrastructural analysis reveals that inner dynein arms of cilia from both the ependymal cell layer and respiratory epithelium are defective, which may underlie the pathogenesis of hydrocephalus, situs inversus totalis, chronic sinusitis, and male inferti...Continue Reading

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