Review Article
Primordial Germ Cells: Current Knowledge and Perspectives
Table 1
Summarized genes that participate into PGC development.
| Full name | Alternate names | Time of expression | Location of coded protein | References |
| Tissue nonspecific AP (Tnap) | | E7.25-14 | At the cell surface, linked to the cell membrane via a phosphatidylinositol glycan linkage | [22] |
| Stella | Developmental pluripotency-associated 3 or Dppa3 or Pgc7 | E7.5 | Protein that may shuttle between the nucleus and cytoplasm | [8, 21] |
| Fragilis | | E7.5 | Transmembrane protein | [8, 21] |
| B-lymphocyte-induced maturation protein 1 (Blimp1) | Pr domain containing protein 1 (Prdm1) | E6.25 | Cytoplasmic transcriptional repressor | [24] |
| Prdm14 | Pr domain containing protein 14 | E6.25 | Transcriptional regulator | [25] |
| Mouse Vasa ortholog (Mvh) | | E13.5(10.5) end of the migratory phase of PGC development | Cytoplasm | [9] |
| Deleted in azoospermia-like (DAZL) | | E12.5(11.5) | Cytoplasmic protein | [44–52] |
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