Abstract

Sex Determination For several decades, it has been believed that the mammalian sex-determining gene Sry contains a single exon. Miyawaki et al. have now identified a cryptic second exon of mouse Sry . Loss- and gain-of-function analyses revealed that the two-exon SRY (SRY-T), not the canonical single exon–encoded SRY (SRY-S), is the bona fide testis-determining factor. Sry exon2 is composed of retrotransposon-derived sequences. The SRY-S carboxyl terminus contains a degradation sequence (degron), whereas the SRY-T carboxyl terminus encoded in the Sry exon2 is degron free, thereby conferring protein stability on SRY-T. Science , this issue p. [121][1] [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.abb6430

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