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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 45, Issue 12, Pages 7191-7211Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx328
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- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR blanc Testis-Dev)
- National Health and Medical Research Council Program [1074258]
- National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship [1020034]
- Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program
- Australian Postgraduate Award
- Agence Nationale pour la Recherche
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In mammalian embryonic gonads, SOX9 is required for the determination of Sertoli cells that orchestrate testis morphogenesis. To identify genetic networks directly regulated by SOX9, we combined analysis of SOX9-bound chromatin regions from murine and bovine foetal testes with sequencing of RNA samples from mouse testes lacking Sox9. We found that SOX9 controls a conserved genetic programme that involves most of the sex-determining genes. In foetal testes, SOX9 modulates both transcription and directly or indirectly sex-specific differential splicing of its target genes through binding to genomic regions with sequence motifs that are conserved among mammals and that we called 'Sertoli Cell Signature' (SCS). The SCS is characterized by a precise organization of binding motifs for the Sertoli cell reprogramming factors SOX9, GATA4 and DMRT1. As SOX9 biological role in mammalian gonads is to determine Sertoli cells, we correlated this genomic signature with the presence of SOX9 on chromatin in foetal testes, therefore equating this signature to a genomic bar code of the fate of foetal Sertoli cells. Starting from the hypothesis that nuclear factors that bind to genomic regions with SCS could functionally interact with SOX9, we identified TRIM28 as a new SOX9 partner in foetal testes.
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