哺乳动物体细胞核移植重编程研究进展

哺乳动物通过体细胞核移植技术能够获得重构胚,并在卵母细胞重编程作用下,供体细胞恢复全能性,这即是核重编程过程。但由于异常重编程的存在,常会导致克隆后代出现高流产率、高死亡率和发育异常等现象。因此,本文主要从细胞分化对重编程的影响、早期胚胎的重编程能力、重编程的检测方法以及提高体细胞核移植重编程的方式这几个方面加以综述,以期进一步增强对体细胞核移植重编程的认识,完善体细胞核移植技术程序。     

不同激活方法对牛体细胞核移植胚胎体外发育的影响(简报)

哺乳动物体细胞核移植在家畜品种改良、濒危珍稀动物保护以及生物学、医学等基础科学研究和应用中越来越显示出其重要的作用。自Wilmut等首次用成年动物体细胞作供体,获得第一只成年体细胞克隆绵羊“Dolly”以来,世界各国科学家进行了大量深入的研究,已在小鼠、牛、猪、山羊等家畜上获得了成功。而且,体细胞核移植技     

哺乳动物核移植中线粒体命运

线粒体是哺乳动物细胞中一种重要的产能、供能细胞器,与生长、发育、衰老和凋亡等多种细胞事件以及多种疾病有关.哺乳动物核移植中,供体细胞和受体卵胞质两种来源的线粒体在重构胚胎发育进程中的变化一直是科学家们研究的热点.对哺乳动物同种胚胎细胞核移植、同种体细胞核移植、异种核移植研究中线粒体的变化进行了综述.     

供核细胞对体细胞核移植效率的影响

利用体细胞核移植技术克隆动物、生产转基因家畜具有极大的应用潜力。然而,核移植效率低下、克隆后代形态异常等问题仍然制约着体细胞核移植技术的产业化进展。影响体细胞核移植效率的因素很多,该文着重从供核细胞的类型、细胞体外培养、细胞凋亡及转基因操作等方面阐述其对体细胞核移植效率的影响。     

供体细胞与哺乳动物体细胞核移植

哺乳动物体细胞核移植(克隆)技术在转基因动物生产、珍稀动物资源复原与保护、生物学基础研究等方面业已显示出重要的应用价值,而目前该技术还与诱导多能干细胞技术一同被认为是创制患者特异性多能干细胞,为再生医学临床"细胞治疗"提供素材的最佳手段。但是,体细胞克隆的效率仍不理想,关键机制还不清楚,严重制约了该技术的推广。因此,如何提高克隆效率已成为人们普遍关心的首要问题。在体细胞克隆技术所涉及的各环节中,供体细胞是影响克隆效率的最关键因素之一。该文从供体细胞的生物学因素和技术因素两方面进行了回顾,旨在为进一步探寻建立物种或供体细胞个性化准备方案,为提高动物克隆效率提供参考。     

体细胞核移植胚胎核重编程的研究进展

尽管在多种哺乳动物种系中成功制备了体细胞克隆后代,但当前的克隆技术仍有许多亟待解决的问题。体细胞核移植胚胎大多存在许多发育异常,造成了妊娠早期高流产率和出生后高死亡率。有研究认为,克隆胚胎发育障碍的一个重要的原因是供体细胞的遗传重编程不完全。哺乳动物种系中,DNA甲基化是胚胎发育期转录调节的必需步骤,除了单拷贝基因序列外,在基因组很多的区域都可以观测到克隆胚胎的异常甲基化。此外,克隆胚胎的基因印迹也存在异常。     

核移植与线粒体

线粒体是哺乳动物的产能、供能细胞器,与生长、发育、衰老和凋亡等多种细胞事件及疾病有关。哺乳动物核移植可能导致克隆胚胎及后代中线粒体的杂合性,从而影响到个体的表型甚至导致线粒体疾病。文章阐明了哺乳动物中线粒体的生物学功能及遗传特性,并分析了核移植中供体细胞和受体卵胞质两种来源的线粒体在同种胚胎细胞核移植、同种及异种体细胞核移植重构胚发育进程中的变化以及可能影响线粒体杂合性的一些因素,对其可能导致的线粒体疾病及解决方法进行了简单的阐述。

     

重构胚中线粒体命运的研究进展

线粒体是哺乳动物细胞中最为重要的细胞器之一,是除细胞核外惟一含有功能性基因组的细胞器,通过氧化磷酸化产生维持细胞正常生理功能的ATP。重构胚中线粒体的命运及线粒体与供体核间的互作关系已越来越成为研究的焦点,综述了同种、异种核移植,ICSI,卵胞质移植及异源线粒体注射后,重构胚中线粒体的命运。     

大熊猫供核体细胞在兔卵胞质中可去分化而支持早期重构胚发育

体外培养的成年大熊猫骨骼肌细胞、子宫上皮细胞和乳腺细胞 ,分别作为供核细胞移植进入去核兔卵母细胞中以构建异种重构胚 .3种组织来源的体细胞在去核兔卵质中均可去分化、恢复全能性和替代合子核进行卵裂 ,并支持早期重构胚发育 .其中以乳腺细胞效果最好 ,子官上皮细胞次之 ,骨骼肌细胞最差 .对比实验表明 ,胞质直接注射法结合重构卵在体培养可比电融合法加体外培养方案获得更大比例的囊胚率 .染色体分析表明异种重构胚的核遗传物质来自大熊猫供体体细胞核 .线粒体DNA分析表明重构囊胚中存在有大熊猫线粒体 .这些结果初步说明 :( 1 )卵胞质使体细胞核去分化不具种特异性 ;( 2 )哺乳动物异种重构胚早期发育中 ,异种细胞核与细胞质之间是相容的 .     

各国家畜胚胎细胞核移植研究进展

细胞核移植技术就是将成熟的卵母细胞或受精卵中的细胞核除去后移植其它细胞核,使卵母细胞不经过精子穿透等有性过程就可被激活、正常分裂并发育成新的个体。因此,核移植技术可以使细胞核供体的基因通过无性繁殖手段得到完全的复制,从而产生出克隆(无性繁殖)动物。鱼类的细胞核移植的成功报道已有很多且很早。然而哺乳动物,尤其是家畜的胚胎细胞核移植是近几年才发展起来的。     

广西巴马小香猪体细胞克隆

本研究旨在检验新生广西巴马小香猪肾脏成纤维细胞支持克隆胚胎完全的体内发育潜能,亦即能通过其构建出存活的克隆猪,从而为克隆技术在广西巴马小香猪资源保存和开发上的应用奠定基础。首先制备新生雄性广西巴马小香猪肾脏成纤维细胞,用其制备体细胞核移植胚胎,追踪观察体细胞核移植胚胎体外发育潜能,最后通过胚胎移植检验其完全的体内发育潜能。实验结果表明,制备的新生雄性广西巴马小香猪肾脏成纤维细胞具有良好的细胞增殖活性,用其制备的体细胞核移植胚胎分裂率和囊胚率分别为77.7%(334/430)和16.5%(71/430),将1 658枚克隆胚胎移植给6头代孕母猪,其中2头妊娠并最终产下8头存活雄性克隆小猪和3头死胎,整体克隆效率为0.66%,存活克隆猪健康状况良好。本研究表明,新生猪肾脏成纤维细胞是一种理想的用于生产体细胞克隆广西巴马小香猪的细胞资源。     

Effects of donor cells on in vitro development of cloned bovine embryos

The donor cells from different individuals and with different foreign genes introduced were investigated to determine their effects on the efficiency of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). The bovine ear fibroblast from different individuals was isolated, cultured, and then transfected with foreign genes to establish the stable cell lines, which were used as donor cells for nuclear transfer. The ooeytes were obtained through ovum pick up operation. After in vitro maturation, the M II phase oocytes were selected as receptors for nuclear transfer.The reconstructed embryos were cultured in vitro and observed at 2 h, 48 h, and 7 days after transfer to assess the rate of fusion using cleaved and blastoeyst as the parameters of SCNT efficiency. The donor cells from different individuals (04036, 06081, 06088, and 06129)had no obvious effect on the fusion and cleaved rate, whereas there was significant difference in the blastocyst rate (P<0.05), and the rate was 62.3%, 37.0%, 35.1%, and 15.6%, respectively. There was no significant difference among the rate of fusion, cleaved and blastocyst in donor cells with different foreign genes (P>0.05). It was concluded that the genetic background of the donor cells could affect the effi-ciency of SCNT, while the introduction of foreign genes into the donor cells had no obvious effect on the efficiency. This study provides useful information for the SCNT and would benefit in promoting the efficiency.     

Association between mitochondrial DNA haplotype compatibility and increased efficiency of bovine intersubspecies cloning

Reconstructed embryos derived from intersubspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer(SCNT) have poorer developmental potential than those from intrasubspecies SCNT.Based on our previous study that Holstein dairy bovine(HD) mitochondrial DNA(mtDNA) haplotype compatibility between donor karyoplast and recipient cytoplast is crucial for SCNT embryo development,we performed intersubspecies SCNT using HD as donor karyoplast and Luxi yellow heifer(LY) as recipient cytoplast according to mtDNA haplotypes determined...     

Global gene expression analysis of bovine blastocysts produced by multiple methods

Reproductive efficiency using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) technology remains suboptimal. Of the various efforts to improve the efficiency, chromatin transfer (CT) and clone-clone aggregation (NTagg) have been reported to produce live cloned animals. To better understand the molecular mechanisms of somatic cell reprogramming during SCNT and assess the various SCNT methods on the molecular level, we performed gene expression analysis on bovine blastocysts produced via standard nuclear transfer (NT), CT, NTagg, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and artificial insemination (AI), as well as on somatic donor cells, using bovine genome arrays. The expression profiles of SCNT (NT, CT, NTagg) embryos were compared with IVF and AI embryos as well as donor cells. NT and CT embryos have indistinguishable gene expression patterns. In comparison to IVF or AI embryos, the number of differentially expressed genes in NTagg embryos is significantly higher than in NT and CT embryos. Genes that were differentially expressed between all the SCNT embryos and IVF or AI embryos are identified. Compared to AI embryos, more than half of the genes found deregulated between SCNT and AI embryos appear to be the result of in vitro culture alone. The results indicate that although SCNT methods have altered differentiated somatic nuclei gene expression to more closely resemble that of embryonic nuclei, combination of insufficient reprogramming and in vitro culture condition compromise the developmental potential of SCNT embryos. This is the first set of comprehensive data for analyzing the molecular impact of various nuclear transfer methods on bovine pre-implantation embryos.     

Association between mitochondrial DNA haplotype compatibility and increased efficiency of bovine intersubspecies cloning

Reconstructed embryos derived from intersubspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) have poorer developmental potential than those from intrasubspecies SCNT. Based on our previous study that Holstein dairy bovine (HD) mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotype compatibility between donor karyoplast and recipient cytoplast is crucial for SCNT embryo development, we performed intersubspecies SCNT using HD as donor karyoplast and Luxi yellow heifer (LY) as recipient cytoplast according to mtDNA haplotypes determined by polymerase chain reactionrestriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) analysis. The results demonstrated that intersubspecies mtDNA homotype SCNT embryos had higher pre- and post-implantation developmental competence than intrasubspecies mtDNA heterotype embryos as well as improved blastocyst reprogramming status, including normal H3K9 dimethylation pattern and promoter hypomethylation of pluripotent genes such as Oct4 and Sox2, suggesting that intersubspecies SCNT using LY oocytes maintains HD cloning efficiency and may reprogram HD nuclei to develop into a normal cloned animal ultimately. Our results indicated that karyoplast-cytoplast interactions and mtDNA haplotype compatibility may affect bovine intersubspecies SCNT efficiency. This study on bovine intersubspecies SCNT is valuable for understanding the mechanisms of mtDNA haplotype compatibility between karyoplast and cytoplast impacting the bovine SCNT efficiency, and provides an alternative and economic resource for HD cloning.     

Experimental risk assessment of bovine viral diarrhea virus transmission via in vitro embryo production using somatic cell nucleus transfer

The objective of this study was to perform a comprehensive risk assessment on infectious disease transmission in the system of in vitro embryo production via somatic cell nucleus transfer (SCNT) technology using bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) as a model. The risks of BVDV transmission in each step of the SCNT embryo production procedure, from donor cells to preimplantation SCNT embryo culture, were carefully examined using a sensitive real-time polymerase chain reaction assay. The identified primary source of BVDV transmission in SCNT embryo production was donor cell infection, most likely caused by contaminated fetal bovine serum in the culture medium. The risk of disease transmission through contaminated oocytes from an abattoir was relatively low, and it can be greatly minimized by cumulus cell removal and adequate oocyte washing procedures. Of the 200 cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) and more than 1500 cumulus cell-free oocyte (CFO) samples collected from multiple sources over a course of 7 months, only 2.5% of the COCs were BVDV positive, and all of the CFOs (100%) were BVDV negative. To evaluate the risk of BVDV introduction during in vitro SCNT embryo culture, 324 SCNT embryos were produced from 18 different cell lines using oocytes from 26 different batches collected over a course of 9 months. The embryos were cultured in vitro for 7 days and then tested for BVDV. All of the 324 SCNT embryos (100%) were negative, indicating that the embryo culture system is virtually risk-free for BVDV transmission. Based on these results, a standard operational protocol (SOP) for SCNT embryo production was proposed to greatly minimize the risk of BVDV transmission through the SCNT embryo production system. This SOP could be a starting point to produce a SCNT system that is virtually risk-free for disease transmission in general.