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Transcriptional reprogramming of gene expression in bovine somatic cell chromatin transfer embryos
Authors
Poothappillai Kasinathan
Erdogan Memili
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Grier P. Page
James M. Robl
Nelida Rodriguez-Osorio
Zhongde Wang
Publication date
24 April 2009
Publisher
Digital Commons @PVAMU
Abstract
Background: Successful reprogramming of a somatic genome to produce a healthy clone by somatic cells nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a rare event and the mechanisms involved in this process are poorly defined. When serial or successive rounds of cloning are performed, blastocyst and full term development rates decline even further with the increasing rounds of cloning. Identifying the cumulative errors could reveal the epigenetic reprogramming blocks in animal cloning. Results: Bovine clones from up to four generations of successive cloning were produced by chromatin transfer (CT). Using Affymetrix bovine microarrays we determined that the transcriptomes of blastocysts derived from the first and the fourth rounds of cloning (CT1 and CT4 respectively) have undergone an extensive reprogramming and were more similar to blastocysts derived from in vitro fertilization (IVF) than to the donor cells used for the first and the fourth rounds of chromatin transfer (DC1 and DC4 respectively). However a set of transcripts in the cloned embryos showed a misregulated pattern when compared to IVF embryos. Among the genes consistently upregulated in both CT groups compared to the IVF embryos were genes involved in regulation of cytoskeleton and cell shape. Among the genes consistently upregulated in IVF embryos compared to both CT groups were genes involved in chromatin remodelling and stress coping. Conclusion: The present study provides adata set that could contribute in our understanding of epigenetic errors in somatic cell chromatin transfer. Identifying cumulative errors after serial cloning could reveal some of the epigenetic reprogramming blocks shedding light on the reprogramming process, important for both basic and applied research. © 2009 Rodriguez-Osorio et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd
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