scholarly journals Transcriptome Analysis of Pig In Vivo, In Vitro–Fertilized, and Nuclear Transfer Blastocyst-Stage Embryos Treated with Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Postfusion and Activation Reveals Changes in the Lysosomal Pathway

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin M. Whitworth ◽  
Jiude Mao ◽  
Kiho Lee ◽  
William G. Spollen ◽  
Melissa S. Samuel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Histone Deacetylase ◽  
Transcriptome Analysis ◽  
Nuclear Transfer ◽  
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors ◽  
Blastocyst Stage

48 TREATMENT OF CLONED BOVINE EMBRYOS WITH HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS INCREASES IN VITRO DEVELOPMENT BUT NOT IN VIVO CLONING EFFICIENCY

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
J. E. Oliver ◽  
T. Delaney ◽  
J. N. Oswald ◽  
M. C. Berg ◽  
B. Oback ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Histone Deacetylase ◽  
Nuclear Transfer ◽  
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors ◽  
Trichostatin A ◽  
Cloning Efficiency ◽  
In Vitro Development ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Vitro Development

Previous studies in the mouse have shown treatment of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) embryos with histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) to significantly increase cloning efficiency (Kishigami S et al. 2006 BBRC 340, 183–189; van Thuan N 2007 Asian Reproductive Biology Society 4, 9 abst). Increasing histone acetylation may open donor chromatin allowing better access for oocyte cytoplasmic factors to facilitate reprogramming. Here, we determined the effect of two HDACi, Trichostatin A (TSA), and scriptaid (Sigma-Aldrich, Castle Hill, NSW, Australia), on bovine cloning efficiency. Zona-free SCNT was performed with serum starved fibroblasts fused to enucleated MII-arrested IVM oocytes. After 4 h, reconstructs were activated with 5 μm ionomycin and 2 mm 6-dimethylaminopurine (DMAP) and cultured individually in 5 μL drops of AgResearch synthetic oviduct fluid (SOF) medium. Treatment with HDACi commenced concomitant with the 4 h DMAP incubation and continued in SOF for the remainder of the treatment period; totalling either 18 or 48 h post activation (hpa). TSA concentrations examined were: 0, 5, 50, and 500 nm, with all treatments containing 0.5% DMSO (n = 1121). Following TSA treatment, increased histone (H) acetylation at lysine (K) of H4K5 was confirmed by semi-quantitative immunofluorescence at the eight-cell stage. Scriptaid concentrations examined were: 0, 5, 50, 250, and 1000 nm, with all treatments containing 0.5% DMSO during DMAP and 0.1% DMSO during IVC (n = 1059). In vitro development on Day 7 was expressed in terms of transferable quality embryos as a percentage of reconstructs cultured. Data were analyzed using a generalized linear model with binomial variation and logit link. Embryos from selected treatments were transferred singularly to recipient cows on Day 7 with pregnancy data analyzed using Fisher’s exact test. Day 7 in vitro development was significantly greater with 5 nm TSA treatment for 18 hpa compared to controls (47.1% v. 34.5%; P < 0.02). Treatment of embryos with TSA for 48 hpa had no effect at any concentration tested. In contrast, scriptaid treatment for 18 hpa had no effect in vitro, while exposure for 48 hpa at 1000 nm significantly increased the development of transferable quality embryos compared to 0 nm (44.0% v. 32.4%; P < 0.005). There was no significant difference in embryo survival rates at D150 of gestation between embryos treated with 0 or 5 nm TSA for 18 hpa (8/48 v. 10/48; 16.7% v. 20.8%). However, in vivo development at Day 150 of gestation following treatment of embryos with 1000 nm scriptaid for 48 hpa was significantly lower compared to controls (1/37 v. 6/31; 2.7% v. 19.4%; P < 0.05). Contrary to the mouse, TSA or scriptaid treatment as used in this study did not increase cloning efficiency in cattle. The use of various HDACi either alone or in combination with DNA demethylating agents may still prove beneficial for reprogramming following nuclear transfer. Supported by FRST C10X0303.

Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors: Assays to Assess Effectiveness In Vitro and In Vivo

2003 ◽  
pp. 199-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria M Richon ◽  
Xianbo Zhou ◽  
J.Paul Secrist ◽  
Carlos Cordon-Cardo ◽  
W.Kevin Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Histone Deacetylase ◽  
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors

Differential effects of culture and nuclear transfer on relative transcript levels of genes with key roles during preimplantation

Zygote ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.N. Moreira ◽  
R. Fernández-Gonzalez ◽  
M.A. Ramirez ◽  
M. Pérez-Crespo ◽  
D. Rizos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Transfer ◽  
Culture Medium ◽  
Cumulus Cell ◽  
Blastocyst Stage ◽  
Mrna Levels ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Glut 1 ◽  
Mouse Somatic Cell

It is well known that the preimplantation culture environment to which embryos are exposed influences the expression of developmentally important genes. Recently, it has been reported that MEMα, a culture medium commonly used for somatic cells, allows high rates of preimplantation development and development to term of mouse somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) embryos. The objective of this study was to compare the differential effects of this medium and of the nuclear transfer procedure on the relative mRNA abundance of several genes with key roles during preimplantation. The relative mRNA levels of nine genes (Glut 1, Glut 5, G6PDH, Bax, Survivin, Gpx 1, Oct4, mTert and IGF2bp1) were quantified at blastocyst stage on cumulus cell cloned embryos cultured in MEMα, as well as on in vivo cultured and MEMα cultured controls. Only three of the nine transcripts analysed (Glut 5, Gpx 1 and Igf2bp1) were significantly down-regulated at blastocyst stage in in vitro produced controls. However, most genes analysed in our MEMα cultured cloned embryos showed altered transcription levels. Interestingly, between cloned and in vitro produced controls only the transcription levels measured for Glut 1 were significantly different. This result suggests that Glut 1 may be a good marker for embryo quality after cumulus cell nuclear transfer.

58 HISTONE DEACETYLASES INHIBITOR, SCRIPTAID, IS BENEFICIAL TO THE REPROGRAMMING OF SOMATIC NUCLEI FOLLOWING NUCLEAR TRANSFER

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
J. G. Zhao ◽  
J. W. Ross ◽  
Y. H. Hao ◽  
D. M. Wax ◽  
L. D. Spate ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Histone Acetylation ◽  
Histone Deacetylases ◽  
Nuclear Transfer ◽  
Blastocyst Stage ◽  
Untreated Group ◽  
Developmental Competence ◽  
Developmental Potential ◽  
Reconstructed Embryos

Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a promising technology with potential applications in both agriculture and regenerative medicine. The reprogramming of differentiated somatic nuclei into totipotent embryonic state following NT is not efficient and the mechanism is currently unknown. However, accumulating evidence suggests that faulty epigenetic reprogramming is likely to be the major cause of low success rates observed in all mammals produced through SCNT. It has been demonstrated that increased histone acetylation in reconstructed embryos by applying histone deacetylases inhibitor (HDACi) such as trychostatin A (TSA) significantly enhanced the developmental competence in several species in vitro and in vivo. However TSA has been known to be teratogenic. Compared with TSA, Scriptaid is a low toxic but more efficient HDACi (Su GH et al. 2000 Cancer Res. 60, 3137–3142). The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate and optimize the application Scriptaid to the NT using Landrace fetal fibroblast cells (FFCs) as donor; 2) investigate the effect of increased histone acetylation on the developmental competence of reconstructed embryos from NIH mini inbred FFCs in vitro and in vivo. The reconstructed embryos were treated with Scriptaid at different concentrations (0 nm, 250 nm, 500 nm and 1000 nm) after activation for 14 to 16 h. IVF embryos without treatment were produced as an additional control. Developmental rates to the 2-cell and blastocyst stage were determined. Developmental potential was determined by transferring Day 1 NT zygotes to the oviducts of surrogates on the day of, or one day after, the onset of estrus. Experiments were repeated at least 3 times and data were analyzed with chi-square tests using SAS 6.12 program (SAS institute, Inc., Cary, NC, USA). The percentage blastocyst of cloned embryos using Landrace FFCs as donors treated with 500 nm Scriptaid was the highest and was significantly higher than untreated group (25% v. 11%, P < 0.05). Percent cleaved was not different among four treatment groups. We used 500 nm Scriptaid for 14 to 16 h after activation for all subsequent experiments. Developmental rate to the blastocyst stage was significantly increased in cloned embryos derived from NIH mini inbred FFCs after treating with Scriptaid (21% v. 9%, P < 0.05), while the blastocyst rate in IVF group was 30%. Embryo transfer (ET) results showed that 5/6 (Transferred embryos No. were 190, 109, 154, 174, 152, and 190, respectively) surrogates (83%) became pregnant resulting in 2 healthy piglets from 2 litters (recipients received 190 and 154 embryos, respectively) in the Scriptaid treatment group, while no pregnancies were obtained in the untreated group from 5 ET (Embryos transferred No. are 140, 163, 161, 151 and 151, respectively). These results suggest that 500 nm Scriptaid treatment following activation increase both the in vitro and in vivo development of porcine SCNT embryos from NIH mini inbred FFCs and the hyperacetylation might actually improve reprogramming of the somatic nuclei after NT. Funding from the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources RR018877.

180 IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF DIFFERENTIALLY REPRESENTED TRANSCRIPTS IN PREIMPLANTATION BOVINE EMBRYOS

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 169 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. McHughes ◽  
G. K. Springer ◽  
L. D. Spate ◽  
R. Li ◽  
R. J. Woods ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relative Abundance ◽  
Nuclear Transfer ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Blastocyst Stage ◽  
Preimplantation Embryos ◽  
Cell Stage ◽  
Production Techniques

Identification of transcripts that are present at key development stages of preimplantation embryos is critical for a better understanding of early embryogenesis. To that end, this project had two goals. The first was to characterize the relative abundance of multiple transcripts during several developmental stages, including metaphase II-stage oocytes (MPII), and 2-cell-stage (2-cell), precompact morula (PCM), and in vitro-produced blastocyst-stage (IVTBL) embryos. The second was to characterize differences in the relative abundance of transcripts present in in vivo- (IVVBL), in vitro-, and nuclear transfer-produced (NTBL) blastocysts. It was our hypothesis that the identification of differentially represented transcripts from these stages would reveal not only developmentally important genes, but also genes that might be aberrantly expressed due to embryo production techniques. Individual clusters from a large bovine EST project (http://genome.rnet.missouri.edu/Bovine/), which focused on female reproductive tissues and embryos, were compared using Fisher's exact test weighted by number of transcripts per tissue by gene (SAS PROC FREQ; SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC, USA). Of the 3144 transcripts that were present during embryogenesis, 125 were found to be differentially represented (P < 0.01) in at least one pairwise comparison (Table 1). Some transcripts found to increase in representation from the MPII to the 2-cell stage include protein kinases, PRKACA and CKS1, as well as the metabolism-related gene, PTTG1. These same transcripts were also found to decrease in representation from the 2-cell to the PCM stage. RPL15 (translation) and FTH1 (immune function) were both more highly represented in the PCM than in the 2-cell stage. From PCM to IVTBL, we saw an increase in RPS11, another translation-related transcript. When comparing blastocyst-stage embryos from different production techniques, several transcripts involved in energy production (e.g., COX7B and COX8A) were found to be more highly represented in the NTBL than in the IVTBL. COX8A was also more highly represented in the IVVBL than in the IVTBL. By investigating these differentially represented transcripts, we will be able to better understand the developmental implications of embryo manipulation. We may also be able to better develop reproductive technologies that lead to in vitro- and nuclear transfer-derived embryos which more closely follow a normal program of development. Table 1. Differentially represented transcripts between developmental stages

Activation of in vivo- and in vitro-derived porcine oocytes by using multiple electrical pulses

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Grupen ◽  
Paul J. Verma ◽  
Zhong Tao Du ◽  
Stephen M. McIlfatrick ◽  
Rodney J. Ashman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Transfer ◽  
Blastocyst Stage ◽  
Single Treatment ◽  
Blastocyst Formation ◽  
Parthenogenetic Development ◽  
Electrical Pulses ◽  
Number Of Cells

The current protocols used to activate pig nuclear transfer embryos are less efficient than those used for other species. To address this problem, the effect of multiple sets of electrical pulses on the parthenogenetic development of in vivo- and in vitro-derived porcine oocytes was examined. Each set of pulses consisted of two 1.5 kV cm–1 DC pulses of 60 s duration each, administered 1 s apart. For in vivo-derived oocytes, application of a second set of pulses 30 min after the first set increased the proportion of oocytes that developed to the blastocyst stage compared with a single treatment (51 v. 34%). Application of a third set of pulses 30 min after the second set reduced the rate of blastocyst formation compared with two sets of pulses. In contrast, the rate of blastocyst formation was greater with one set of pulses compared with two sets for in vitro matured oocytes (31 v. 16%). Additional sets of electrical pulses did not affect the number of cells in blastocysts obtained from either group of oocytes compared with a single treatment. In summary, the study demonstrates that the application of a second set of activating pulses 30 min after the first set is beneficial to in vivo-derived oocytes, but detrimental to in vitro matured oocytes, in terms of their ability to develop parthenogenetically to the blastocyst stage.

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