Switching of mouse spermatogonial proliferation from the c-kit receptor-independent type to the receptor-dependent type during differentiation
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Testicular cells composed mostly of germ cells and immature Sertoli cells from neonatal mice 2 and 5 days old were cultured to investigate germ-cell proliferation mediated by the c-kit receptor. The addition of antibody to block the interaction of the c-kit receptor with its ligand inhibited the proliferation of cultured spermatogonia from 5-day-old mice in a dose-dependent manner, but not from that of 2-day-old mice. The addition of anti-c-kit ACK2 monoclonal antibody also inhibited the proliferation of spermatogonia from 5-day-old mutant Sld/Sld mice but not of 5-day-old mutant Wo/Wo mice. The results indicate that c-kit-positive type A spermatogonia in the testes of 5-day-old mice require steel factor (kit ligand) for their proliferation, whereas self-renewal and differentiation of c-kit-negative primitive type A spermatogonia in the testes of 2-day-old mice do not.
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