Protein extraction and western blot experiments on whole testes and elutriated spermatids were performed as described in Comptour et al.65 (link) In brief, 15 μl of each immunoprecipitated sample and a volume of input sample corresponding to 10% of IP sample were denatured using 4 × NuPAGE LDS sample buffer (Life Technologies) with 10% β – mercaptoethanol, boiled for 10 min at 95 °C and loaded. Extraction of sperm proteins was as follow: five millions of spermatozoa (purity ⩾99%) were resuspended in 200 μl of 4 × NuPAGE LDS sample buffer (Life Technologies) and boiled for 10 min at 95 °C. Ten microliter of sample were loaded per lane. Antibody against SLY14 (link) was diluted 1/3000, antibody against SLX/SLXL1,69 (link) 1/6000, anti-H3K79me2 (ab-3594 from Abcam), anti-TBLX1R1 (ab 24550 from Abcam), anti-Tubulin antibody (T-9026 from Sigma-Aldrich), anti-panH3 antibody (05-928 from Abcam), anti-FLAG (M5 from Sigma-Aldrich) and anti-Hup2B antibody (Briar Patch Biosciences, Grass Valley, CA, USA), 1/1000.