Serological evidence for H-Y antigen in XO-female mice (original) (raw)
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H-Y antigen was examined in XX-, XY-, and XO-mice using spleen, kidney, and liver cells of the animals for the absorption of the anti-H-Y antiserum produced in the rat. The cells of the XY- and XO-mice were found to be H-Y antigenpositive while the cells of the XX-mice were negative. As in Turner syndrome patients with 45,X, in the XO-female mice the H-Y antigen titre was reduced as compared to normal XY-male mice; intermediate values between those of normal male and female mice were obtained. These results clearly indicate that as in man, in the mouse the structural gene for H-Y antigen is not Y-linked but is located on an autosome. Furthermore, the concept of the regulation of the H-Y antigen gene expression in the human (Wolf et al. 1980a, b) by an X-linked repressor gene, escaping X-inactivation in the XX-female and an Y-linked inducer gene also seems to hold true in the mouse.
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Wolfgang Engel, Barbara Klemme & Annelotte Ebrecht
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Engel, W., Klemme, B. & Ebrecht, A. Serological evidence for H-Y antigen in XO-female mice.Hum Genet 57, 68–70 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00271170
- Received: 02 October 1980
- Issue Date: March 1981
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00271170