Figure 1

Identification of homeobox factors in testicular Leydig cells and in mouse epididymis. A degenerate PCR was performed using cDNAs from mLTC-1 Leydig cell line, purified Leydig cells from adult rats (ALC) and from all three segments of the mouse epididymis and resulted in the amplification of a 180 bp fragment. The fragments were subcloned in pBluescript and sequenced to determine the nature of the homeoprotein (see Table 1).