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Spermatogenesis is the process of proliferation and differentiation of spermatogonial stem cells into adult spermatozoa within seminiferous tubules. Sperm cells undergo extensive epigenetic modifications during spermatogenesis. One of the epigenetic modifications, histone acetylation induces a loose chromatin structure and active transcription which facilitates binding of transcription factors at sperm chromosome. Therefore, histone acetylation is known to play an important role in spermatogenesis. However, factors involved in histone acetylation during spermatogenesis are not well known. We found a factor TLE3(Transducin Like Enhancer of Split 3). The transcriptional co-repressor TLE family is known to regulate histone acetylation by interacting with histone deacetylase( HDAC). We examined the expression level of TLE3 in various mouse tissues. As a result of RT-PCR, TLE3 showed significantly higher expression in testis than that in other tissues. Immunofluorescent and Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that TLE3 protein was located in sertoli cell and spermatid in seminiferous tubules of adult mouse testis. In addition, the differential regulation in TLE3 protein expression site was observed in the testis during postnatal development. We also analyzed the expression pattern of HDAC2, which is known to cooperate with TLE3. Both HDAC2 and TLE3 protein were detected in spermatogonial stem cells at one-weeks-old mouse, however, Their expression site were transferred to sertoli cell at six-weeks-old mouse. aken together, TLE3 may play a role in regulating histone acetylation via interaction with HDAC2 in the testis. Futher studies are needed to look into a relation between TLE3 and histone acetylation during spermatogenesis and postnatal development in testis.