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Spate LD, Yin J, Sammel L, Prather RS, Redel BK. Oocyte recovery after overnight ovary transport provides an alternative source of cumulus oocyte complexes that are competent to produce live piglets. Reprod Domest Anim 2023; 58:1770-1772. [PMID: 37873995 PMCID: PMC11071644 DOI: 10.1111/rda.14491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2023] [Revised: 09/25/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
Abstract
COVID-19 impacted abattoirs worldwide. The processing lines became a hotspot for the spread of COVID-19 resulting in plant restructuring and ultimately a critical loss of pig material for research. Commercial sources of pig oocytes are available but are costly and companies were already operating at a maximum capacity for supplying the oocyte needs around the United States. Here, we provide an alternative source of oocytes that are competent to produce live, healthy piglets.
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- Lee D Spate
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Sustainable Swine Resources LLC, Watertown, Wisconsin, USA
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- Sustainable Swine Resources LLC, Watertown, Wisconsin, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- USDA-ARS, Plant Genetics Research Unit, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Amargant F, Zhou LT, Yuan Y, Nahar A, Krisher RL, Spate LD, Roberts RM, Prather RS, Rowell EE, Laronda MM, Duncan FE. FGF2, LIF, and IGF1 (FLI) supplementation during human in vitro maturation enhances markers of gamete competence. Hum Reprod 2023; 38:1938-1951. [PMID: 37608600 DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dead162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2023] [Revised: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 08/24/2023] Open
Abstract
STUDY QUESTION Does a chemically defined maturation medium supplemented with FGF2, LIF, and IGF1 (FLI) improve in vitro maturation (IVM) of cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) obtained from children, adolescents, and young adults undergoing ovarian tissue cryopreservation (OTC)? SUMMARY ANSWER Although FLI supplementation did not increase the incidence of oocyte meiotic maturation during human IVM, it significantly improved quality outcomes, including increased cumulus cell expansion and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) expression as well as enhanced transzonal projection retraction. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY During OTC, COCs, and denuded oocytes from small antral follicles are released into the processing media. Recovery and IVM of these COCs is emerging as a complementary technique to maximize the fertility preservation potential of the tissue. However, the success of IVM is low, especially in the pediatric population. Supplementation of IVM medium with FLI quadruples the efficiency of pig production through improved oocyte maturation, but whether a similar benefit occurs in humans has not been investigated. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION This study enrolled 75 participants between January 2018 and December 2021 undergoing clinical fertility preservation through the Fertility & Hormone Preservation & Restoration Program at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Participants donated OTC media, accumulated during tissue processing, for research. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS Participants who underwent OTC and include a pediatric population that encompassed children, adolescents, and young adults ≤22 years old. All participant COCs and denuded oocytes were recovered from media following ovarian tissue processing. IVM was then performed in either a standard medium (oocyte maturation medium) or one supplemented with FLI (FGF2; 40 ng/ml, LIF; 20 ng/ml, and IGF1; 20 ng/ml). IVM outcomes included meiotic progression, cumulus cell expansion, transzonal projection retraction, and detection of MAPK protein expression. MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE The median age of participants was 6.3 years, with 65% of them classified as prepubertal by Tanner staging. Approximately 60% of participants had been exposed to chemotherapy and/or radiation prior to OTC. On average 4.7 ± 1 COCs and/or denuded oocytes per participant were recovered from the OTC media. COCs (N = 41) and denuded oocytes (N = 29) were used for IVM (42 h) in a standard or FLI-supplemented maturation medium. The incidence of meiotic maturation was similar between cohorts (COCs: 25.0% vs 28.6% metaphase II arrested eggs in Control vs FLI; denuded oocytes: 0% vs 5.3% in Control vs FLI). However, cumulus cell expansion was 1.9-fold greater in COCs matured in FLI-containing medium relative to Controls and transzonal projection retraction was more pronounced (2.45 ± 0.50 vs 1.16 ± 0.78 projections in Control vs FLIat 16 h). Additionally, MAPK expression was significantly higher in cumulus cells obtained from COCs matured in FLI medium for 16-18 h (chemiluminescence corrected area 621,678 vs 2,019,575 a.u., P = 0.03). LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION Our samples are from human participants who exhibited heterogeneity with respect to age, diagnosis, and previous treatment history. Future studies with larger sample sizes, including adult participants, are warranted to determine the mechanism by which FLI induces MAPK expression and activation. Moreover, studies that evaluate the developmental competence of eggs derived from FLI treatment, including assessment of embryos as outcome measures, will be required prior to clinical translation. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS FLI supplementation may have a conserved beneficial effect on IVM for children, adolescents, and young adults spanning the agricultural setting to clinical fertility preservation. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTEREST(S) This work was supported by Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology startup funds (F.E.D.), Department of Surgery Faculty Practice Plan Grant and the Fertility & Hormone Preservation & Restoration Program at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (M.M.L. and E.E.R.). M.M.L. is a Gesualdo Foundation Research Scholar. Y.Y.'s research is supported by the internal research funds provided by Colorado Center of Reproductive Medicine. Y.Y., L.D.S., R.M.R., and R.S.P. have a patent pending for FLI. The remaining authors have no conflict of interest. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER N/A.
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- Farners Amargant
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lone Tree, CO, USA
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- Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lone Tree, CO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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Chen PR, Uh K, Monarch K, Spate LD, Reese ED, Prather RS, Lee K. Inactivation of growth differentiation factor 9 blocks folliculogenesis in pigs†. Biol Reprod 2023; 108:611-618. [PMID: 36648449 PMCID: PMC10106843 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioad005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Revised: 12/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) is a secreted protein belonging to the transforming growth factor beta superfamily and has been well characterized for its role during folliculogenesis in the ovary. Although previous studies in mice and sheep have shown that mutations in GDF9 disrupt follicular progression, the exact role of GDF9 in pigs has yet to be elucidated. The objective of this study was to understand the role of GDF9 in ovarian function by rapidly generating GDF9 knockout (GDF9-/-) pigs by using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Three single-guide RNAs designed to disrupt porcine GDF9 were injected with Cas9 mRNA into zygotes, and blastocyst-stage embryos were transferred into surrogates. One pregnancy was sacrificed on day 100 of gestation to investigate the role of GDF9 during oogenesis. Four female fetuses were recovered with one predicted to be GDF9-/- and the others with in-frame mutations. All four had fully formed oocytes within primordial follicles, confirming that knockout of GDF9 does not disrupt oogenesis. Four GDF9 mutant gilts were generated and were grown past puberty. One gilt was predicted to completely lack functional GDF9 (GDF9-/-), and the gilt never demonstrated standing estrus and had a severely underdeveloped reproductive tract with large ovarian cysts. Further examination revealed that the follicles from the GDF9-/- gilt did not progress past preantral stages, and the uterine vasculature was less extensive than the control pigs. By using the CRISPR/Cas9 system, we demonstrated that GDF9 is a critical growth factor for proper ovarian development and function in pigs.
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- Paula R Chen
- United States Department of Agriculture—Agricultural Research Service, Plant Genetics Research Unit, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Chen PR, Rowland RRR, Stoian AM, Petrovan V, Sheahan M, Ganta C, Cino-Ozuna G, Kim DY, Dunleavey JM, Whitworth KM, Samuel MS, Spate LD, Cecil RF, Benne JA, Yan X, Fang Y, Croix BS, Lechtenberg K, Wells KD, Prather RS. Disruption of anthrax toxin receptor 1 in pigs leads to a rare disease phenotype and protection from senecavirus A infection. Sci Rep 2022; 12:5009. [PMID: 35322150 PMCID: PMC8943192 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09123-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Senecavirus A (SVA) is a cause of vesicular disease in pigs, and infection rates are rising within the swine industry. Recently, anthrax toxin receptor 1 (ANTXR1) was revealed as the receptor for SVA in human cells. Herein, the role of ANTXR1 as a receptor for SVA in pigs was investigated by CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. Strikingly, ANTXR1 knockout (KO) pigs exhibited features consistent with the rare disease, GAPO syndrome, in humans. Fibroblasts from wild type (WT) pigs supported replication of SVA; whereas, fibroblasts from KO pigs were resistant to infection. During an SVA challenge, clinical symptoms, including vesicular lesions, and circulating viremia were present in infected WT pigs but were absent in KO pigs. Additional ANTXR1-edited piglets were generated that were homozygous for an in-frame (IF) mutation. While IF pigs presented a GAPO phenotype similar to the KO pigs, fibroblasts showed mild infection, and circulating SVA nucleic acid was decreased in IF compared to WT pigs. Thus, this new ANTXR1 mutation resulted in decreased permissiveness of SVA in pigs. Overall, genetic disruption of ANTXR1 in pigs provides a unique model for GAPO syndrome and prevents circulating SVA infection and clinical symptoms, confirming that ANTXR1 acts as a receptor for the virus.
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- Paula R Chen
- Division of Animal Science, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA.,Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA
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- Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61802, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA.,Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61802, USA
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- Mouse Cancer Genetics Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA
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- Midwest Veterinary Services, Inc. and Central States Research Centre, Inc., Oakland, NE, 68045, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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Stoecklein KS, Drum NJ, García-Guerra A, Duran BJ, Moraes JGN, Spate LD, Prather RS, Ortega MS. 79 Cytokine supplementation to improve developmental competence of bovine embryos following slow-rate freezing. Reprod Fertil Dev 2021; 34:276. [PMID: 35231207 DOI: 10.1071/rdv34n2ab79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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- K S Stoecklein
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Chen PR, Lucas CG, Cecil RF, Pfeiffer CA, Fudge MA, Samuel MS, Zigo M, Seo H, Spate LD, Whitworth KM, Sutovsky P, Johnson GA, Wells KD, Geisert RD, Prather RS. Disrupting porcine glutaminase does not block preimplantation development and elongation nor decrease mTORC1 activation in conceptuses†. Biol Reprod 2021; 105:1104-1113. [PMID: 34453429 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioab165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Revised: 08/13/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
Abstract
Elongation of pig conceptuses is a dynamic process, requiring adequate nutrient provisions. Glutamine is used as an energy substrate and is involved in the activation of mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) during porcine preimplantation development. However, the roles of glutamine have not been extensively studied past the blastocyst stage. Therefore, the objective of the current study was to determine if glutaminase (GLS), which is the rate-limiting enzyme in glutamine metabolism, was necessary for conceptus elongation to proceed and was involved in mTORC1 activation. The CRISPR/Cas9 system was used to induce loss-of-function mutations in the GLS gene of porcine fetal fibroblasts. Wild type (GLS+/+) and knockout (GLS-/-) fibroblasts were used as donor cells for somatic cell nuclear transfer, and GLS+/+ and GLS-/- blastocyst-stage embryos were transferred into surrogates. On day 14 of gestation, GLS+/+ conceptuses primarily demonstrated filamentous morphologies, and GLS-/- conceptuses exhibited spherical, ovoid, tubular, and filamentous morphologies. Thus, GLS-/- embryos were able to elongate despite the absence of GLS protein and minimal enzyme activity. Furthermore, spherical GLS-/- conceptuses had increased abundance of transcripts related to glutamine and glutamate metabolism and transport compared to filamentous conceptuses of either genotype. Differences in phosphorylation of mTORC1 components and targets were not detected regarding conceptus genotype or morphology, but abundance of two transcriptional targets of mTORC1, cyclin D1, and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1-alpha was increased in spherical conceptuses. Therefore, porcine GLS is not essential for conceptus elongation and is not required for mTORC1 activation at this developmental timepoint.
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- Paula R Chen
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Chen PR, Redel BK, Kerns KC, Spate LD, Prather RS. Challenges and Considerations during In Vitro Production of Porcine Embryos. Cells 2021; 10:cells10102770. [PMID: 34685749 PMCID: PMC8535139 DOI: 10.3390/cells10102770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Genetically modified pigs have become valuable tools for generating advances in animal agriculture and human medicine. Importantly, in vitro production and manipulation of embryos is an essential step in the process of creating porcine models. As the in vitro environment is still suboptimal, it is imperative to examine the porcine embryo culture system from several angles to identify methods for improvement. Understanding metabolic characteristics of porcine embryos and considering comparisons with other mammalian species is useful for optimizing culture media formulations. Furthermore, stressors arising from the environment and maternal or paternal factors must be taken into consideration to produce healthy embryos in vitro. In this review, we progress stepwise through in vitro oocyte maturation, fertilization, and embryo culture in pigs to assess the status of current culture systems and address points where improvements can be made.
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- Paula R. Chen
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Johns DN, Lucas CG, Pfeiffer CA, Chen PR, Meyer AE, Perry SD, Spate LD, Cecil RF, Fudge MA, Samuel MS, Spinka CM, Liu H, Lucy MC, Wells KD, Prather RS, Spencer TE, Geisert RD. Conceptus interferon gamma is essential for establishment of pregnancy in the pig. Biol Reprod 2021; 105:1577-1590. [PMID: 34608481 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioab186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Establishment and maintenance of pregnancy in the pig is a complex process that relies on conceptus regulation of the maternal proinflammatory response to endometrial attachment. Following elongation, pig conceptuses secrete interferon gamma (IFNG) during attachment to the endometrial luminal epithelium. The objective here was to determine if conceptus production of IFNG is important for early development and establishment of pregnancy. CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing and somatic cell nuclear transfer technologies were used to create an IFNG loss-of-function study in pigs. Wild-type (IFNG+/+) and null (IFNG-/-) fibroblast cells were used to create embryos through somatic cell nuclear transfer. IFNG expression was not detected in IFNG-/- conceptuses on either day 15 or day 17 of pregnancy. Ablation of conceptus IFNG production resulted in the reduction of stromal CD3+ and mast cells which localized to the site of conceptus attachment on day 15. The uteri of recipients with IFNG-/- conceptuses were inflamed, hyperemic and there was an abundance of erythrocytes in the uterine lumen associated with the degenerating conceptuses. The endometrial stromal extracellular matrix was altered in the IFNG-/- embryo pregnancies and there was an increased endometrial mRNA levels for collagen XVII (COL17A1), matrilin 1 (MATN1), secreted phosphoprotein 1 (SPP1) and cysteine-rich secretory protein 3 (CRISP3), which are involved with repair and remodeling of the extracellular matrix. These results indicate conceptus IFNG production is essential in modulating the endometrial proinflammatory response for conceptus attachment and survival in pigs.
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- Destiny N Johns
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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Lucas CG, Redel BK, Chen PR, Spate LD, Prather RS, Wells KD. Effects of RAD51-stimulatory compound 1 (RS-1) and its vehicle, DMSO, on pig embryo culture. Reprod Toxicol 2021; 105:44-52. [PMID: 34407461 DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2021.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Revised: 08/01/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Abstract
Pigs have become an important model for agricultural and biomedical purposes. The advent of genomic engineering tools, such as the CRISPR/Cas9 system, has facilitated the production of livestock models with desired modifications. However, precise site-specific modifications in pigs through the homology-directed repair (HDR) pathway remains a challenge. In mammalian embryos, the use of small molecules to inhibit non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) or to improve HDR have been tested, but little is known about their toxicity. The compound RS-1 stimulates the activity of the RAD51 protein, which plays a key role in the HDR mechanism, demonstrating enhancement of HDR events in rabbit and bovine zygotes. Thus, in this study, we evaluated the dosage and temporal effects of RS-1 on porcine embryo development and viability. Additionally, we assessed the effects of its vehicle, DMSO, during embryo in vitro culture. Transient exposure to 7.5 μM of RS-1 did not adversely affect early embryo development and was compatible with subsequent development to term. Additionally, low concentrations of its vehicle, DMSO, did not show any toxicity to in vitro produced embryos. The transient use of RS-1 at 7.5 μM during in vitro culture seems to be the best protocol of choice to reduce the potentially toxic effects of RS-1 while attempting to improve HDR in the pig. Direct injection of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, combined with strategies to increase the frequency of targeted modifications via HDR, have become an important tool to simplify and accelerate the production of genetically modified livestock models.
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- C G Lucas
- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; USDA-ARS, Plant Genetics Unit, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Gabriel GC, Devine W, Redel BK, Whitworth KM, Samuel M, Spate LD, Cecil RF, Prather RS, Wu Y, Wells KD, Lo CW. Cardiovascular Development and Congenital Heart Disease Modeling in the Pig. J Am Heart Assoc 2021; 10:e021631. [PMID: 34219463 PMCID: PMC8483476 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.121.021631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Background Modeling cardiovascular diseases in mice has provided invaluable insights into the cause of congenital heart disease. However, the small size of the mouse heart has precluded translational studies. Given current high‐efficiency gene editing, congenital heart disease modeling in other species is possible. The pig is advantageous given its cardiac anatomy, physiology, and size are similar to human infants. We profiled pig cardiovascular development and generated genetically edited pigs with congenital heart defects. Methods and Results Pig conceptuses and fetuses were collected spanning 7 stages (day 20 to birth at day 115), with at least 3 embryos analyzed per stage. A combination of magnetic resonance imaging and 3‐dimensional histological reconstructions with episcopic confocal microscopy were conducted. Gross dissections were performed in late‐stage or term fetuses by using sequential segmental analysis of the atrial, ventricular, and arterial segments. At day 20, the heart has looped, forming a common atria and ventricle and an undivided outflow tract. Cardiac morphogenesis progressed rapidly, with atrial and outflow septation evident by day 26 and ventricular septation completed by day 30. The outflow and atrioventricular cushions seen at day 20 undergo remodeling to form mature valves, a process continuing beyond day 42. Genetically edited pigs generated with mutation in chromatin modifier SAP130 exhibited tricuspid dysplasia, with tricuspid atresia associated with early embryonic lethality. Conclusions The major events in pig cardiac morphogenesis are largely complete by day 30. The developmental profile is similar to human and mouse, indicating gene edited pigs may provide new opportunities for preclinical studies focused on outcome improvements for congenital heart disease.
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- George C Gabriel
- Department of Developmental Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh PA
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- Department of Developmental Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh PA
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- Division of Animal Sciences Animal Science Research CenterNational Swine Resource and Research CenterUniversity of Missouri Columbia MO
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- Division of Animal Sciences Animal Science Research CenterNational Swine Resource and Research CenterUniversity of Missouri Columbia MO
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- Division of Animal Sciences Animal Science Research CenterNational Swine Resource and Research CenterUniversity of Missouri Columbia MO
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- Division of Animal Sciences Animal Science Research CenterNational Swine Resource and Research CenterUniversity of Missouri Columbia MO
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- Division of Animal Sciences Animal Science Research CenterNational Swine Resource and Research CenterUniversity of Missouri Columbia MO
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- Division of Animal Sciences Animal Science Research CenterNational Swine Resource and Research CenterUniversity of Missouri Columbia MO
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- Department of Developmental Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh PA
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- Division of Animal Sciences Animal Science Research CenterNational Swine Resource and Research CenterUniversity of Missouri Columbia MO
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- Department of Developmental Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh PA
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Pfeiffer CA, Meyer AE, Brooks KE, Chen PR, Milano-Foster J, Spate LD, Benne JA, Cecil RF, Samuel MS, Ciernia LA, Spinka CM, Smith MF, Wells KD, Spencer TE, Prather RS, Geisert RD. Ablation of conceptus PTGS2 expression does not alter early conceptus development and establishment of pregnancy in the pig†. Biol Reprod 2021; 102:475-488. [PMID: 31616930 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioz192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2019] [Revised: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Pig conceptuses secrete estrogens (E2), interleukin 1 beta 2 (IL1B2), and prostaglandins (PGs) during the period of rapid trophoblast elongation and establishment of pregnancy. Previous studies established that IL1B2 is essential for rapid conceptus elongation, whereas E2 is not essential for conceptus elongation or early maintenance of the corpora lutea. The objective of the present study was to determine if conceptus expression of prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2 (PTGS2) and release of PG are important for early development and establishment of pregnancy. To understand the role of PTGS2 in conceptus elongation and pregnancy establishment, a loss-of-function study was conducted by editing PTGS2 using CRISPR/Cas9 technology. Wild-type (PTGS2+/+) and null (PTGS2-/-) fibroblast cells were used to create embryos through somatic cell nuclear transfer. Immunolocalization of PTGS2 and PG production was absent in cultured PTGS2-/- blastocysts on day 7. PTGS2+/+ and PTGS2-/- blastocysts were transferred into surrogate gilts, and the reproductive tracts were collected on either days 14, 17, or 35 of pregnancy. After flushing the uterus on days 14 and 17, filamentous conceptuses were cultured for 3 h to determine PG production. Conceptus release of total PG, prostaglandin F2⍺ (PGF2α), and PGE in culture media was lower with PTGS2-/- conceptuses compared to PTGS2+/+ conceptuses. However, the total PG, PGF2α, and PGE content in the uterine flushings was not different. PTGS2-/- conceptus surrogates allowed to continue pregnancy were maintained beyond 30 days of gestation. These results indicate that pig conceptus PTGS2 is not essential for early development and establishment of pregnancy in the pig.
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- Caroline A Pfeiffer
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Chen PR, Lucas CG, Spate LD, Prather RS. Glutaminolysis is involved in the activation of mTORC1 in in vitro-produced porcine embryos. Mol Reprod Dev 2021; 88:490-499. [PMID: 34075648 PMCID: PMC8361685 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.23516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Revised: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 05/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Glutamine supplementation to porcine embryo culture medium improves development, increases leucine consumption, and enhances mitochondrial activity. In cancer cells, glutamine has been implicated in the activation of mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) to support rapid proliferation. The objective of this study was to determine if glutamine metabolism, known as glutaminolysis, was involved in mTORC1 activation in porcine embryos. Culture with 3.75 mM GlutaMAX improved development to the blastocyst stage compared to culture with 1 mM GlutaMAX, and culture with 0 mM GlutaMAX decreased development compared to all groups with GlutaMAX. Ratios of phosphorylated to total MTOR were increased when embryos were cultured with 3.75 or 10 mM GlutaMAX, which was enhanced by the absence of leucine, but ratios for RPS6K were unchanged. As another indicator of mTORC1 activation, colocalization of MTOR and a lysosomal marker was increased in embryos cultured with 3.75 or 10 mM GlutaMAX in the absence of leucine. Culturing embryos with glutaminase inhibitors decreased development and the ratio of phosphorylated to total MTOR, indicating reduced activation of the complex. Therefore, glutaminolysis is involved in the activation of mTORC1 in porcine embryos, but further studies are needed to characterize downstream effects on development.
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- Paula R Chen
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Redel BK, Spate LD, Yuan Y, Murphy CN, Roberts RM, Prather RS. Neither gonadotropin nor cumulus cell expansion is needed for the maturation of competent porcine oocytes in vitro†. Biol Reprod 2021; 105:533-542. [PMID: 33962465 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioab090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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In-vitro maturation (IVM) of oocytes from immature females is widely used in assisted reproductive technologies. Here we illustrate that cumulus cell (CC) expansion, once considered a key indicator of oocyte quality, is not needed for oocytes to mature to the metaphase II (MII) stage and to gain nuclear and cytoplasmic competence to produce offspring. Juvenile pig oocytes were matured in four different media: (1) Basal (-gonadotropins (GN) - FLI); (2) -GN + FLI (supplement of FGF2, LIF, and IGF1); (3) +GN - FLI; and (4) +GN + FLI. There was no difference in maturation to MII or progression to the blastocyst stage after fertilization of oocytes that had been matured in -GN + FLI medium and oocytes matured in +GN + FLI medium. Only slight CC expansion occurred in the two media lacking GN compared with the two where GN was present. The cumulus-oocytes-complexes (COC) matured in +GN + FLI exhibited the greatest expansion. We conclude that FLI has a dual role. It is directly responsible for oocyte competence, a process where GN are not required, and, when GN are present, it has a downstream role in enhancing CC expansion. Our study also shows that elevated phosphorylated MAPK may not be a necessary correlate of oocyte maturation and that the greater utilization of glucose by COC observed in +GN + FLI medium probably plays a more significant role to meet the biosynthetic needs of the CC to expand than to attain oocyte developmental competence. Gene expression analyses have not been informative in providing a mechanism to explain how FLI medium enhances oocyte competence without promoting CC expansion.
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- Bethany K Redel
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lone Tree, CO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.,Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Stoecklein KS, Ortega MS, Spate LD, Murphy CN, Prather RS. Improved cryopreservation of in vitro produced bovine embryos using FGF2, LIF, and IGF1. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0243727. [PMID: 33534866 PMCID: PMC7857633 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
In vitro embryo production systems are limited by their inability to consistently produce embryos with the competency to develop to the blastocyst stage, survive cryopreservation, and establish a pregnancy. Previous work identified a combination of three cytokines [fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2), leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1)], called FLI, that we hypothesize improve preimplantation development of bovine embryos in vitro. To test this hypothesis, FLI was supplemented into oocyte maturation or embryo culture medium. Embryos were produced in vitro using abattoir-derived oocytes and fertilized with sperm from a single bull known to have high fertility. After an 18-20 h fertilization period, putative zygotes were cultured in synthetic oviductal fluid (SOF) for 8 days. The addition of FLI to the oocyte maturation medium increased (P < 0.05) the dissociation of transzonal projections at 12, 18, and 24 h of maturation, as well as, the proportion of oocytes that reached the metaphase II stage of meiosis. Additionally, lipid content was decreased (P < 0.05) in the blastocyst stage embryo. The addition of FLI during the culture period increased development to the blastocyst stage, cytoskeleton integrity, and survival following slow freezing, as well as, decreased post thaw cell apoptosis (P < 0.05). In conclusion, the supplementation of these cytokines in vitro has the potential to alleviate some of the challenges associated with the cryo-survival of in vitro produced bovine embryos through improving embryo development and embryo quality.
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- Katy S. Stoecklein
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Koppes EA, Redel BK, Johnson MA, Skvorak KJ, Ghaloul-Gonzalez L, Yates ME, Lewis DW, Gollin SM, Wu YL, Christ SE, Yerle M, Leshinski A, Spate LD, Benne JA, Murphy SL, Samuel MS, Walters EM, Hansen SA, Wells KD, Lichter-Konecki U, Wagner RA, Newsome JT, Dobrowolski SF, Vockley J, Prather RS, Nicholls RD. A porcine model of phenylketonuria generated by CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. JCI Insight 2020; 5:141523. [PMID: 33055427 PMCID: PMC7605535 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.141523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 09/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Phenylalanine hydroxylase-deficient (PAH-deficient) phenylketonuria (PKU) results in systemic hyperphenylalaninemia, leading to neurotoxicity with severe developmental disabilities. Dietary phenylalanine (Phe) restriction prevents the most deleterious effects of hyperphenylalaninemia, but adherence to diet is poor in adult and adolescent patients, resulting in characteristic neurobehavioral phenotypes. Thus, an urgent need exists for new treatments. Additionally, rodent models of PKU do not adequately reflect neurocognitive phenotypes, and thus there is a need for improved animal models. To this end, we have developed PAH-null pigs. After selection of optimal CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing reagents by using an in vitro cell model, zygote injection of 2 sgRNAs and Cas9 mRNA demonstrated deletions in preimplantation embryos, with embryo transfer to a surrogate leading to 2 founder animals. One pig was heterozygous for a PAH exon 6 deletion allele, while the other was compound heterozygous for deletions of exon 6 and of exons 6-7. The affected pig exhibited hyperphenylalaninemia (2000-5000 μM) that was treatable by dietary Phe restriction, consistent with classical PKU, along with juvenile growth retardation, hypopigmentation, ventriculomegaly, and decreased brain gray matter volume. In conclusion, we have established a large-animal preclinical model of PKU to investigate pathophysiology and to assess new therapeutic interventions.
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- Erik A Koppes
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Universityof Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division ofAnimal Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.,National Swine Research and Resource Center (NSRRC), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Universityof Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Universityof Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Universityof Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Developmental Biology, University of Pittsburgh, and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- GenPhySE, Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, 31326, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Universityof Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division ofAnimal Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.,National Swine Research and Resource Center (NSRRC), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- National Swine Research and Resource Center (NSRRC), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- National Swine Research and Resource Center (NSRRC), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division ofAnimal Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.,National Swine Research and Resource Center (NSRRC), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division ofAnimal Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.,National Swine Research and Resource Center (NSRRC), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division ofAnimal Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.,National Swine Research and Resource Center (NSRRC), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Universityof Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Laboratory Animal Resources, Office of Research, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,Division of Laboratory Animal Resources, Office of Research, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Universityof Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division ofAnimal Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.,National Swine Research and Resource Center (NSRRC), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Universityof Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Ostedgaard LS, Price MP, Whitworth KM, Abou Alaiwa MH, Fischer AJ, Warrier A, Samuel M, Spate LD, Allen PD, Hilkin BM, Romano Ibarra GS, Ortiz Bezara ME, Goodell BJ, Mather SE, Powers LS, Stroik MR, Gansemer ND, Hippee CE, Zarei K, Goeken JA, Businga TR, Hoffman EA, Meyerholz DK, Prather RS, Stoltz DA, Welsh MJ. Lack of airway submucosal glands impairs respiratory host defenses. eLife 2020; 9:59653. [PMID: 33026343 PMCID: PMC7541087 DOI: 10.7554/elife.59653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Submucosal glands (SMGs) are a prominent structure that lines human cartilaginous airways. Although it has been assumed that SMGs contribute to respiratory defense, that hypothesis has gone without a direct test. Therefore, we studied pigs, which have lungs like humans, and disrupted the gene for ectodysplasin (EDA-KO), which initiates SMG development. EDA-KO pigs lacked SMGs throughout the airways. Their airway surface liquid had a reduced ability to kill bacteria, consistent with SMG production of antimicrobials. In wild-type pigs, SMGs secrete mucus that emerges onto the airway surface as strands. Lack of SMGs and mucus strands disrupted mucociliary transport in EDA-KO pigs. Consequently, EDA-KO pigs failed to eradicate a bacterial challenge in lung regions normally populated by SMGs. These in vivo and ex vivo results indicate that SMGs are required for normal antimicrobial activity and mucociliary transport, two key host defenses that protect the lung.
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- Lynda S Ostedgaard
- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States.,Department of Radiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States.,Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States.,Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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Meyer AE, Pfeiffer CA, Brooks KE, Spate LD, Benne JA, Cecil R, Samuel MS, Murphy CN, Behura S, McLean MK, Ciernia LA, Smith MF, Whitworth KM, Wells KD, Spencer TE, Prather RS, Geisert RD. New perspective on conceptus estrogens in maternal recognition and pregnancy establishment in the pig†. Biol Reprod 2020; 101:148-161. [PMID: 31066888 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioz058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2018] [Revised: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The proposed signal for maternal recognition of pregnancy in pigs is estrogen (E2), produced by the elongating conceptuses between days 11 to 12 of pregnancy with a more sustained increase during conceptus attachment and placental development on days 15 to 30. To understand the role of E2 in porcine conceptus elongation and pregnancy establishment, a loss-of-function study was conducted by editing aromatase (CYP19A1) using CRISPR/Cas9 technology. Wild-type (CYP19A1+/+) and (CYP19A1-/-) fibroblast cells were used to create embryos through somatic cell nuclear transfer, which were transferred into recipient gilts. Elongated and attaching conceptuses were recovered from gilts containing CYP19A1+/+ or CYP19A1-/- embryos on day 14 and 17 of pregnancy. Total E2 in the uterine flushings of gilts with CYP19A1-/- embryos was lower than recipients containing CYP19A1+/+ embryos with no difference in testosterone, PGF2α, or PGE2 on either day 14 or 17. Despite the loss of conceptus E2 production, CYP19A1-/- conceptuses were capable of maintaining the corpora lutea. However, gilts gestating CYP19A1-/- embryos aborted between days 27 and 31 of gestation. Attempts to rescue the pregnancy of CYP19A1-/- gestating gilts with exogenous E2 failed to maintain pregnancy. However, CYP19A1-/- embryos could be rescued when co-transferred with embryos derived by in vitro fertilization. Endometrial transcriptome analysis revealed that ablation of conceptus E2 resulted in disruption of a number biological pathways. Results demonstrate that intrinsic E2 conceptus production is not essential for pre-implantation development, conceptus elongation, and early CL maintenance, but is essential for maintenance of pregnancy beyond 30 days .
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- Ashley E Meyer
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Cecil RF, Chen PR, Benne JA, Hord TK, Spate LD, Samuel MS, Prather RS. Chemical simulation of hypoxia in donor cells improves development of somatic cell nuclear transfer-derived embryos and increases abundance of transcripts related to glycolysis. Mol Reprod Dev 2020; 87:763-772. [PMID: 32558023 PMCID: PMC7496615 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.23392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 05/21/2020] [Accepted: 05/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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To improve efficiency of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), it is necessary to modify differentiated donor cells to become more amendable for reprogramming by the oocyte cytoplasm. A key feature that distinguishes somatic/differentiated cells from embryonic/undifferentiated cells is cellular metabolism, with somatic cells using oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) while embryonic cells utilize glycolysis. Inducing metabolic reprogramming in donor cells could improve SCNT efficiency by priming cells to become more embryonic in nature before SCNT hypoxia inducible factor 1-α (HIF1-α), a transcription factor that allows for cell survival in low oxygen, promotes a metabolic switch from OXPHOS to glycolysis. We hypothesized that chemically stabilizing HIF1-α in donor cells by use of the hypoxia mimetic, cobalt chloride (CoCl2 ), would promote this metabolic switch in donor cells and subsequently improve the development of SCNT embryos. Donor cell treatment with 100 µM CoCl2 for 24 hr preceding SCNT upregulated messenfer RNA abundance of glycolytic enzymes, improved SCNT development to the blastocyst stage and quality, and affected gene expression in the blastocysts. After transferring blastocysts created from CoCl2 -treated donor cells to surrogates, healthy cloned piglets were produced. Therefore, shifting metabolism toward glycolysis in donor cells by CoCl2 treatment is a simple, economical way of improving the in vitro efficiency of SCNT and is capable of producing live animals.
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- Raissa F. Cecil
- Department of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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- Department of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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- Department of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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- Department of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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- Department of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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Chen PR, Spate LD, Leffeler EC, Benne JA, Cecil RF, Hord TK, Prather RS. Removal of hypotaurine from porcine embryo culture medium does not impair development of in vitro-fertilized or somatic cell nuclear transfer-derived embryos at low oxygen tension. Mol Reprod Dev 2020; 87:773-782. [PMID: 32495478 PMCID: PMC7496716 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.23393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Revised: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Hypotaurine (HT) is a routine component of porcine embryo culture medium, functioning as an antioxidant, but its requirement may be diminished as most embryo culture systems now use 5% O2 instead of atmospheric (20%) O2 . Our objective was to determine the effects of removing HT from the culture medium on porcine preimplantation embryo development. Embryos cultured in 20% O2 without HT had decreased blastocyst development compared to culture with HT or in 5% O2 with or without HT. Notably, differences in blastocyst development or total cell number were not detected between embryos cultured in 5% O2 with or without HT. After culture in 5% O2 without HT and embryo transfer, healthy fetuses were retrieved from two pregnancies on Day 42, confirming in vivo developmental competence. Transcript abundance of proapoptotic markers was decreased in embryos cultured without HT regardless of oxygen tension; however, assays for apoptosis did not demonstrate differences between groups. Additionally, no differences were observed in the development or apoptosis of somatic cell nuclear transfer-derived embryos cultured in 5% O2 with or without HT. With decreased utility in 5% O2 , removing HT from porcine embryo culture medium would also have economic advantages because it is undoubtedly the most expensive component.
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- Paula R. Chen
- Division of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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- Division of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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- Division of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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- Division of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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- Division of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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- Division of Animal SciencesUniversity of MissouriColumbiaMissouri
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Lucas CG, Spate AM, Samuel MS, Spate LD, Warren WC, Prather RS, Wells KD. A novel swine sex-linked marker and its application across different mammalian species. Transgenic Res 2020; 29:395-407. [PMID: 32607872 DOI: 10.1007/s11248-020-00204-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Advances in genome editing tools have reduced barriers to the creation of animal models. Due to their anatomical and physiological similarities to humans, there has been a growing need for pig models to study human diseases, for xenotransplantation and translational research. The ability to determine the sex of genetically modified embryos, cells or fetuses is beneficial for every project involving the production of transgenic animals. This strategy can improve the time-efficiency and lower the production costs. Additionally, sex assessment is very useful for wildlife studies to understand population behavior and structure. Thus, we developed a simple and fast PCR-based protocol for sex determination in pigs by using a unique primer set to amplify either the DDX3X or DDX3Y gene. The sex was 100% correctly assigned when tail genomic DNA, Day-35 fetus and hair samples from pigs were used. For both blastocysts and oocytes (84.6% and 96.5% of efficacy, respectively) the unidentified samples were potentially due to a limitation in sample size. Our assay also worked for domestic sheep (Ovis aries), American bison (Bison bison) and European cattle (Bos taurus) samples and by in silico analysis we confirmed X-Y amplicon length polymorphisms for the DDX3 gene in 12 other mammalian species. This PCR protocol for determining sex in pig tissues and cells showed to be simple, specific, highly reproducible and less time consuming as well as an important tool for other livestock species and wildlife studies.
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- C G Lucas
- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.,Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.,Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.,Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.,Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA. .,Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
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Chen PR, Redel BK, Spate LD, Ji T, Salazar SR, Prather RS. Glutamine supplementation enhances development of in vitro-produced porcine embryos and increases leucine consumption from the medium. Biol Reprod 2019; 99:938-948. [PMID: 29860318 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioy129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Accepted: 05/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Improper composition of culture medium contributes to reduced viability of in vitro-produced embryos. Glutamine (Gln) is a crucial amino acid for preimplantation embryos as it supports proliferation and is involved in many different biosynthetic pathways. Previous transcriptional profiling revealed several upregulated genes related to Gln transport and metabolism in in vitro-produced porcine blastocysts compared to in vivo-produced counterparts, indicating a potential deficiency in the culture medium. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the effects of Gln supplementation on in vitro-produced porcine embryo development, gene expression, and metabolism. Cleaved embryos were selected and cultured in MU2 medium supplemented with 1 mM Gln (control), 3.75 mM Gln (+Gln), 3.75 mM GlutaMAX (+Max), or 3.75 mM alanine (+Ala) until day 6. Embryos cultured with +Gln or +Max had increased development to the blastocyst stage and total number of nuclei compared to the control (P < 0.05). Moreover, expression of misregulated transcripts involved in glutamine and glutamate transport and metabolism was corrected when embryos were cultured with +Gln or +Max. Metabolomics analysis revealed increased production of glutamine and glutamate into the medium by embryos cultured with +Max and increased consumption of leucine by embryos cultured with +Gln or +Max. As an indicator of cellular health, mitochondrial membrane potential was increased when embryos were cultured with +Max which was coincident with decreased apoptosis in these blastocysts. Lastly, two embryo transfers by using embryos cultured with +Max resulted in viable piglets, confirming that this treatment is consistent with in vivo developmental competence.
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- Paula R Chen
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Mordhorst BR, Benne JA, Cecil RF, Whitworth KM, Samuel MS, Spate LD, Murphy CN, Wells KD, Green JA, Prather RS. Improvement of in vitro and early in utero porcine clone development after somatic donor cells are cultured under hypoxia. Mol Reprod Dev 2019; 86:558-565. [PMID: 30779254 PMCID: PMC6510642 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.23132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Revised: 01/06/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Genetically engineered pigs serve as excellent biomedical and agricultural models. To date, the most reliable way to generate genetically engineered pigs is via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), however, the efficiency of cloning in pigs is low (1-3%). Somatic cells such as fibroblasts frequently used in nuclear transfer utilize the tricarboxylic acid cycle and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation for efficient energy production. The metabolism of somatic cells contrasts with cells within the early embryo, which predominately use glycolysis. We hypothesized that fibroblast cells could become blastomere-like if mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation was inhibited by hypoxia and that this would result in improved in vitro embryonic development after SCNT. In a previous study, we demonstrated that fibroblasts cultured under hypoxic conditions had changes in gene expression consistent with increased glycolytic/gluconeogenic metabolism. The goal of this pilot study was to determine if subsequent in vitro embryo development is impacted by cloning porcine embryonic fibroblasts cultured in hypoxia. Here we demonstrate that in vitro measures such as early cleavage, blastocyst development, and blastocyst cell number are improved (4.4%, 5.5%, and 17.6 cells, respectively) when donor cells are cultured in hypoxia before nuclear transfer. Survival probability was increased in clones from hypoxic cultured donors compared to controls (8.5 vs. 4.0 ± 0.2). These results suggest that the clones from donor cells cultured in hypoxia are more developmentally competent and this may be due to improved nuclear reprogramming during somatic cell nuclear transfer.
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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Assisted reproductive technologies in the pig are critical for the production of genetically modified pigs as models of human disease and to improve production agriculture. Methods of oocyte maturation, fertilization, and culture all play an extremely important role in how the embryo, fetus, and offspring will develop. In this chapter, we discuss the historical methods and recent advances that have been essential in promoting efficient and competent embryo development. Here we describe the procedures that can be used to mature, fertilize, and culture pig embryos to the blastocyst stage.
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- Bethany K Redel
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. .,National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.,National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.,National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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Whitworth KM, Cecil R, Benne JA, Redel BK, Spate LD, Samuel MS, Prather RS, Wells KD. Zygote injection of RNA encoding Cre recombinase results in efficient removal of LoxP flanked neomycin cassettes in pigs. Transgenic Res 2018. [PMID: 29516259 DOI: 10.1007/s11248-018-0064-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Genetically engineered pigs are often created with a targeting vector that contains a loxP flanked selectable marker like neomycin. The Cre-loxP recombinase system can be used to remove the selectable marker gene from the resulting offspring or cell line. Here is described a new method to remove a loxP flanked neomycin cassette by direct zygote injection of an mRNA encoding Cre recombinase. The optimal concentration of mRNA was determined to be 10 ng/μL when compared to 2 and 100 ng/μL (P < 0.0001). Development to the blastocyst stage was 14.1% after zygote injection with 10 ng/μL. This method successfully removed the neomycin cassette in 81.9% of injected in vitro derived embryos; which was significantly higher than the control (P < 0.0001). Embryo transfer resulted in the birth of one live piglet with a Cre deleted neomycin cassette. The new method described can be used to efficiently remove selectable markers in genetically engineered animals without the need for long term cell culture and subsequent somatic cell nuclear transfer.
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- Kristin M Whitworth
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 159 ASRC, 920 East Campus Dr., Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 159 ASRC, 920 East Campus Dr., Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 159 ASRC, 920 East Campus Dr., Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 159 ASRC, 920 East Campus Dr., Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 159 ASRC, 920 East Campus Dr., Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 159 ASRC, 920 East Campus Dr., Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 159 ASRC, 920 East Campus Dr., Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 159 ASRC, 920 East Campus Dr., Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
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Mordhorst BR, Murphy SL, Ross RM, Benne JA, Samuel MS, Cecil RF, Redel BK, Spate LD, Murphy CN, Wells KD, Green JA, Prather RS. Pharmacologic treatment of donor cells induced to have a Warburg effect-like metabolism does not alter embryonic development in vitro or survival during early gestation when used in somatic cell nuclear transfer in pigs. Mol Reprod Dev 2018; 85:290-302. [PMID: 29392839 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2017] [Revised: 01/14/2018] [Accepted: 01/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Somatic cell nuclear transfer is a valuable technique for the generation of genetically engineered animals, however, the efficiency of cloning in mammalian species is low (1-3%). Differentiated somatic cells commonly used in nuclear transfer utilize the tricarboxylic acid cycle and cellular respiration for energy production. Comparatively the metabolism of somatic cells contrasts that of the cells within the early embryos which predominately use glycolysis. Early embryos (prior to implantation) are evidenced to exhibit characteristics of a Warburg Effect (WE)-like metabolism. We hypothesized that pharmacologically driven fibroblast cells can become more blastomere-like and result in improved in vitro embryonic development after SCNT. The goals were to determine if subsequent in vitro embryo development is impacted by (1) cloning pharmacologically treated donor cells pushed to have a WE-like metabolism or (2) culturing non-treated donor clones with pharmaceuticals used to push a WE-like metabolism. Additionally, we investigated early gestational survival of the donor-treated clone embryos. Here we demonstrate that in vitro development of clones is not hindered by pharmacologically treating either the donor cells or the embryos themselves with CPI, PS48, or the combination of these drugs. Furthermore, these experiments demonstrate that early embryos (or at least in vitro produced embryos) have a low proportion of mitochondria which have high membrane potential and treatment with these pharmaceuticals does not further alter the mitochondrial function in early embryos. Lastly, we show that survival in early gestation was not different between clones from pharmacologically induced WE-like donor cells and controls.
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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Whyte JJ, Meyer AE, Spate LD, Benne JA, Cecil R, Samuel MS, Murphy CN, Prather RS, Geisert RD. Inactivation of porcine interleukin-1β results in failure of rapid conceptus elongation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:307-312. [PMID: 29279391 PMCID: PMC5777074 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1718004115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Conceptus expansion throughout the uterus of mammalian species with a noninvasive epitheliochorial type of placentation is critical establishing an adequate uterine surface area for nutrient support during gestation. Pig conceptuses undergo a unique rapid morphological transformation to elongate into filamentous threads within 1 h, which provides the uterine surface to support development and maintain functional corpora lutea through the production of estrogen. Conceptus production of a unique interleukin 1β, IL1B2, temporally increases during the period of trophoblast remodeling during elongation. CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing was used to knock out pig conceptus IL1B2 expression and the secretion of IL1B2 during the time of conceptus elongation. Trophoblast elongation occurred on day 14 in wild-type (IL1B2+/+) conceptuses but did not occur in ILB2-null (IL1B2-/-) conceptuses. Although the morphological transition of IL1B2-/- conceptuses was inhibited, expression of a number of conceptus developmental genes was not altered. However, conceptus aromatase expression and estrogen secretion were decreased, indicating that IL1B2 may be involved in the spatiotemporal increase in conceptus estrogen synthesis needed for the establishment of pregnancy in the pig and may serve to regulate the proinflammatory response of endometrium to IL1B2 during conceptus elongation and attachment to the uterine surface.
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- Jeffrey J Whyte
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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Yuan Y, Spate LD, Redel BK, Tian Y, Zhou J, Prather RS, Roberts RM. Quadrupling efficiency in production of genetically modified pigs through improved oocyte maturation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:E5796-E5804. [PMID: 28673989 PMCID: PMC5530680 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1703998114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Assisted reproductive technologies in all mammals are critically dependent on the quality of the oocytes used to produce embryos. For reasons not fully clear, oocytes matured in vitro tend to be much less competent to become fertilized, advance to the blastocyst stage, and give rise to live young than their in vivo-produced counterparts, particularly if they are derived from immature females. Here we show that a chemically defined maturation medium supplemented with three cytokines (FGF2, LIF, and IGF1) in combination, so-called "FLI medium," improves nuclear maturation of oocytes in cumulus-oocyte complexes derived from immature pig ovaries and provides a twofold increase in the efficiency of blastocyst production after in vitro fertilization. Transfer of such blastocysts to recipient females doubles mean litter size to about nine piglets per litter. Maturation of oocytes in FLI medium, therefore, effectively provides a fourfold increase in piglets born per oocyte collected. As they progress in culture, the FLI-matured cumulus-oocyte complexes display distinctly different kinetics of MAPK activation in the cumulus cells, much increased cumulus cell expansion, and an accelerated severance of cytoplasmic projections between the cumulus cells outside the zona pellucida and the oocyte within. These events likely underpin the improvement in oocyte quality achieved by using the FLI medium.
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- Ye Yuan
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211;
- Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
- Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65212
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211;
- Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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Redel BK, Tessanne KJ, Spate LD, Murphy CN, Prather RS. Arginine increases development of in vitro-produced porcine embryos and affects the protein arginine methyltransferase-dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase-nitric oxide axis. Reprod Fertil Dev 2017; 27:655-66. [PMID: 25765074 DOI: 10.1071/rd14293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2014] [Accepted: 02/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Culture systems promote development at rates lower than the in vivo environment. Here, we evaluated the embryo's transcriptome to determine what the embryo needs during development. A previous mRNA sequencing endeavour found upregulation of solute carrier family 7 (cationic amino acid transporter, y+ system), member 1 (SLC7A1), an arginine transporter, in in vitro- compared with in vivo-cultured embryos. In the present study, we added different concentrations of arginine to our culture medium to meet the needs of the porcine embryo. Increasing arginine from 0.12 to 1.69mM improved the number of embryos that developed to the blastocyst stage. These blastocysts also had more total nuclei compared with controls and, specifically, more trophectoderm nuclei. Embryos cultured in 1.69mM arginine had lower SLC7A1 levels and a higher abundance of messages involved with glycolysis (hexokinase 1, hexokinase 2 and glutamic pyruvate transaminase (alanine aminotransferase) 2) and decreased expression of genes involved with blocking the tricarboxylic acid cycle (pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase, isozyme 1) and the pentose phosphate pathway (transaldolase 1). Expression of the protein arginine methyltransferase (PRMT) genes PRMT1, PRMT3 and PRMT5 throughout development was not affected by arginine. However, the dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase 1 (DDAH1) and DDAH2 message was found to be differentially regulated through development, and the DDAH2 protein was localised to the nuclei of blastocysts. Arginine has a positive effect on preimplantation development and may be affecting the nitric oxide-DDAH-PRMT axis.
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- Bethany K Redel
- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, 920 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, 920 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, 920 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, 920 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, 920 East Campus Drive, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Whitworth KM, Benne JA, Spate LD, Murphy SL, Samuel MS, Murphy CN, Richt JA, Walters E, Prather RS, Wells KD. Zygote injection of CRISPR/Cas9 RNA successfully modifies the target gene without delaying blastocyst development or altering the sex ratio in pigs. Transgenic Res 2017; 26:97-107. [PMID: 27744533 PMCID: PMC5247313 DOI: 10.1007/s11248-016-9989-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 10/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing tool has increased the efficiency of creating genetically modified pigs for use as biomedical or agricultural models. The objectives were to determine if DNA editing resulted in a delay in development to the blastocyst stage or in a skewing of the sex ratio. Six DNA templates (gBlocks) that were designed to express guide RNAs that target the transmembrane protease, serine S1, member 2 (TMPRSS2) gene were in vitro transcribed. Pairs of CRISPR guide RNAs that flanked the start codon and polyadenylated Cas9 were co-injected into the cytoplasm of zygotes and cultured in vitro to the blastocyst stage. Blastocysts were collected as they formed on days 5, 6 or 7. PCR was performed to determine genotype and sex of each embryo. Separately, embryos were surgically transferred into recipient gilts on day 4 of estrus. The rate of blastocyst development was not significantly different between CRISPR injection embryos or the non-injected controls at day 5, 6 or 7 (p = 0.36, 0.09, 0.63, respectively). Injection of three CRISPR sets of guides resulted in a detectable INDEL in 92-100 % of the embryos analyzed. There was not a difference in the number of edits or sex ratio of male to female embryos when compared between days 5, 6 and 7 to the controls (p > 0.22, >0.85). There were 12 resulting piglets and all 12 had biallelic edits of TMRPSS2. Zygote injection with CRISPR/Cas9 continues to be a highly efficient tool to genetically modify pig embryos.
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- Kristin M Whitworth
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
- National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
- National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
- National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
- National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
- National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
- National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
- National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri, 920 East Campus Dr., E125D ASRC, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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Whitworth KM, Mao J, Lee K, Spollen WG, Samuel MS, Walters EM, Spate LD, Prather RS. 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. Cell Reprogram 2016; 17:243-58. [PMID: 26731590 DOI: 10.1089/cell.2015.0022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Genetically modified pigs are commonly created via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). Treatment of reconstructed embryos with histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi) immediately after activation improves cloning efficiency. The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the transcriptome of SCNT embryos treated with suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA), 4-iodo-SAHA (ISAHA), or Scriptaid as compared to untreated SCNT, in vitro-fertilized (IVF), and in vivo (IVV) blastocyst-stage embryos. SAHA (10 μM) had the highest level of blastocyst development at 43.9%, and all treatments except 10 μM ISAHA had the same percentage of blastocyst development as Scriptaid (p<0.05). Two treatments, 1.0 μM ISAHA and 1.0 μM SAHA, had higher mean cell number than No HDACi treatment (p<0.021). Embryo transfers performed with 10 μM SAHA- and 1 μM ISAHA-treated embryos resulted in the birth of healthy piglets. GenBank accession numbers from up- and downregulated transcripts were loaded into the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery to identify enriched biological themes. HDACi treatment yielded the highest enrichment for transcripts within the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) Pathway, lysosome. The mean intensity of LysoTracker was lower in IVV embryos compared to IVF and SCNT embryos (p<0.0001). SAHA and ISAHA can successfully be used to create healthy piglets from SCNT.
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- Kristin M Whitworth
- 1 Division of Animal Sciences, National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO, 65211
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- 1 Division of Animal Sciences, National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO, 65211
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- 2 Department of Animal and Poultry Science, Virginia Tech , Blacksburg, VA, 24061
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- 3 Informatics Research Core Facility, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO, 65211
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- 1 Division of Animal Sciences, National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO, 65211
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- 1 Division of Animal Sciences, National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO, 65211
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- 1 Division of Animal Sciences, National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO, 65211
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- 1 Division of Animal Sciences, National Swine Research and Resource Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO, 65211
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Redel BK, Spate LD, Lee K, Mao J, Whitworth KM, Prather RS. Glycine supplementation in vitro enhances porcine preimplantation embryo cell number and decreases apoptosis but does not lead to live births. Mol Reprod Dev 2016; 83:246-58. [PMID: 26824641 PMCID: PMC5067679 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Accepted: 01/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Most in vitro culture conditions are less‐than‐optimal for embryo development. Here, we used a transcriptional‐profiling database to identify culture‐induced differences in gene expression in porcine blastocysts compared to in vivo‐produced counterparts. Genes involved in glycine transport (SLC6A9), glycine metabolism (GLDC, GCSH, DLD, and AMT), and serine metabolism (PSAT1, PSPH, and PHGDH) were differentially expressed. Addition of 10 mM glycine to the culture medium (currently containing 0.1 mM) reduced the abundance of SLC6A9 transcript and increased total cell number, primarily in the trophectoderm lineage (P = 0.003); this was likely by decreasing the percentage of apoptotic nuclei. As serine and glycine can be reversibly metabolized by serine hydroxymethyltransferase 2 (SHMT2), we assessed the abundance of SHMT2 transcript as well as its functional role by inhibiting it with aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), a glycine analog, during in vitro culture. Both AMPA supplementation and elevated glycine decreased the mRNA abundance of SHMT2 and tumor protein p53 (TP53), which is activated in response to cellular stress, compared to controls (P ≤ 0.02). On the other hand, mitochondrial activity of blastocysts, mtDNA copy number, and abundance of mitochondria‐related transcripts did not differ between control and 10 mM glycine culture conditions. Despite improvements to these metrics of blastocyst quality, transfer of embryos cultured in 10 mM glycine did not result in pregnancy whereas the transfer of in vitro‐produced embryos cultured in control medium yielded live births. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 83: 246–258, 2016. © 2016 The Authors.
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- Bethany K Redel
- Division of Animal Sciences, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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Green MP, Harvey AJ, Spate LD, Kimura K, Thompson JG, Roberts RM. The effects of 2,4-dinitrophenol and d
-glucose concentration on the development, sex ratio, and interferon-tau (IFNT) production of bovine blastocysts. Mol Reprod Dev 2015; 83:50-60. [DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Accepted: 10/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Mark P. Green
- Division of Animal Sciences; University of Missouri, Columbia; Missouri
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- School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville; Melbourne Australia
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- Division of Animal Sciences; University of Missouri, Columbia; Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences; University of Missouri, Columbia; Missouri
- Reproductive Physiology Laboratory, National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science; 768 Senbonmatsu Nishinasuno Tochigi Japan
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- Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide and ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics; Adelaide Australia
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- Division of Animal Sciences; University of Missouri, Columbia; Missouri
- 240b Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, Columbia; Missouri
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Zhao J, Xu W, Ross JW, Walters EM, Butler SP, Whyte JJ, Kelso L, Fatemi M, Vanderslice NC, Giroux K, Spate LD, Samuel MS, Murphy CN, Wells KD, Masiello NC, Prather RS, Velander WH. Engineering protein processing of the mammary gland to produce abundant hemophilia B therapy in milk. Sci Rep 2015; 5:14176. [PMID: 26387706 PMCID: PMC4585688 DOI: 10.1038/srep14176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2015] [Accepted: 07/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Both the low animal cell density of bioreactors and their ability to post-translationally process recombinant factor IX (rFIX) limit hemophilia B therapy to <20% of the world’s population. We used transgenic pigs to make rFIX in milk at about 3,000-fold higher output than provided by industrial bioreactors. However, this resulted in incomplete γ-carboxylation and propeptide cleavage where both processes are transmembrane mediated. We then bioengineered the co-expression of truncated, soluble human furin (rFurin) with pro-rFIX at a favorable enzyme to substrate ratio. This resulted in the complete conversion of pro-rFIX to rFIX while yielding a normal lactation. Importantly, these high levels of propeptide processing by soluble rFurin did not preempt γ-carboxylation in the ER and therefore was compartmentalized to the Trans-Golgi Network (TGN) and also to milk. The Golgi specific engineering demonstrated here segues the ER targeted enhancement of γ-carboxylation needed to biomanufacture coagulation proteins like rFIX using transgenic livestock.
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- Jianguo Zhao
- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.,State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 100101
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- Protein Purification and Characterization Laboratories, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 207 Othmer Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68588, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.,Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Protein Purification and Characterization Laboratories, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 207 Othmer Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68588, USA
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- Protein Purification and Characterization Laboratories, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 207 Othmer Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68588, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center &Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Protein Purification and Characterization Laboratories, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 207 Othmer Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68588, USA
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Lee K, Davis A, Zhang L, Ryu J, Spate LD, Park KW, Samuel MS, Walters EM, Murphy CN, Machaty Z, Prather RS. Pig oocyte activation using a Zn²⁺ chelator, TPEN. Theriogenology 2015; 84:1024-32. [PMID: 26143360 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2015.05.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2014] [Revised: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 05/27/2015] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Artificial oocyte activation is a critical step during SCNT. Most current activation protocols focus on inducing an increase in the intracellular free Ca(2+) concentration of the oocyte. Here, we have used a zinc chelator, TPEN, to enhance the efficiency of oocyte activation during SCNT. TPEN treatment of matured pig oocytes resulted in the reduction of available Zn(2+) in pig oocytes; however, the cytosolic Ca(2+) concentration in the oocytes was not affected by the TPEN treatment. When various concentrations (100-250 μM) and incubation durations (45 minutes-2.5 hours) of TPEN were used to activate oocytes, the efficiency of oocyte activation was not different from conventional activation methods. When oocytes that were activated by conventional activation methods were incubated with a lower concentration of TPEN (5-10 μM), a significant increase in embryos developing to the blastocyst stage was observed. In addition, when oocytes receiving a small Ca(2+) stimulus were further activated by higher concentration of TPEN (100-200 μM), a significant increase in the frequency of blastocyst formation was observed, compared to a conventional activation method. This result indicated that TPEN can be a main reagent in oocyte activation. No increase in the cytosolic Ca(2+) level was detected when oocytes were exposed to various concentrations of TPEN, indicating the ability of TPEN to induce oocyte activation is independent of an intracellular Ca(2+) increase. We were able to produce clones through SCNT by using the TPEN-assisted activation procedure, and the piglets produced through the process did not show any signs of abnormality. In this study, we have developed an efficient way to use TPEN to increase the developmental potential of cloned embryos.
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- Kiho Lee
- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA; Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA.
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA; Department of Animal Science and Technology, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Jeonnam, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA; National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA; National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Cryostorage of porcine embryos in a closed pathogen-free system is essential for the maintenance and safeguard of swine models. Previously, we reported a protocol for the successful cryopreservation of porcine embryos at the blastocyst stage in 0.25 mL ministraws. In this experiment, we aimed at developing a protocol to apply the same concept for the cryopreservation of early-stage porcine embryos. Porcine embryos from day 2 through day 4 were delipidated by using a modified two-step centrifugation method and were then cryopreserved in sealed 0.25 mL straws by using a slow cooling method. Control groups included open pulled straw (OPS) vitrified embryos after delipidation and noncryopreserved embryos without delipidation. There were no significant differences in cryosurvival between embryos frozen in 0.25 mL straws and OPS vitrified embryos across all the stages (two cell to morula) examined (p>0.05). Similarly, in all groups examined, the blastocyst rates were not different between the two cryopreserved groups. However, the blastocyst rates from the cryopreserved groups were significantly lower than the noncryopreserved controls (p<0.05). This experiment demonstrated that early-stage porcine embryos can survive cryopreservation in a closed system by using a slow cooling method at a comparable rate to those vitrified by using an ultrarapid cooling method (p>0.05). However, the developmental competence was significantly reduced after cryopreservation compared to noncryopreserved embryos. Further research is needed to optimize the protocol to improve the developmental potential of cryopreserved early-stage porcine embryos in sealed straws.
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- Hongsheng Men
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri , Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, Animal Sciences Research Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, Missouri. ; National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, Animal Sciences Research Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, Animal Sciences Research Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, Missouri. ; National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, Missouri
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Spate LD, Brown A, Redel BK, Whitworth KM, Prather RS. PS48 can replace bovine serum albumin in pig embryo culture medium, and improve in vitro embryo development by phosphorylating AKT. Mol Reprod Dev 2015; 82:315-20. [PMID: 25776657 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2015] [Accepted: 02/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The application of embryo-related technology is dependent on in vitro culture systems. Unfortunately, most culture media are suboptimal and result in developmentally compromised embryos. Since embryo development is partially dependent upon Warburg Effect-like metabolism, our goal was to test the response of embryos treated with compounds that are known to stimulate or enhance this Effect. One such compound is 5-(4-chloro-phenyl)-3-phenyl-pent-2-enoic acid (PS48). When added during oocyte maturation, the quality of the resultant embryos was compromised, whereas when added to the culture medium after fertilization, PS48 improved both the percentage of embryos that reach the blastocyst stage and the number of nuclei in those blastocysts. Embryonic PS48 treatment resulted in more phosphorylated v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog (AKT) in blastocyst-stage embryos as compared to the controls. Further, PS48 could replace bovine serum albumin in embryo culture medium, as demonstrated by high-quality embryos that were developmentally competent. The action of PS48 appears to be via stimulation of phosphoinositide-3 kinase and phosphorylation of AKT, which is consistent with stimulation of the Warburg Effect.
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- Lee D Spate
- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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Mao J, Zhao MT, Whitworth KM, Spate LD, Walters EM, O'Gorman C, Lee K, Samuel MS, Murphy CN, Wells K, Rivera RM, Prather RS. Oxamflatin treatment enhances cloned porcine embryo development and nuclear reprogramming. Cell Reprogram 2014; 17:28-40. [PMID: 25548976 DOI: 10.1089/cell.2014.0075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Faulty epigenetic reprogramming of somatic nuclei is thought to be the main reason for low cloning efficiency by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). Histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi), such as Scriptaid, improve developmental competence of SCNT embryos in several species. Another HDACi, Oxamflatin, is about 100 times more potent than Scriptaid in the ability to inhibit nuclear-specific HDACs. The present study determined the effects of Oxamflatin treatment on embryo development, DNA methylation, and gene expression. Oxamflatin treatment enhanced blastocyst formation of SCNT embryos in vitro. Embryo transfer produced more pigs born and fewer mummies from the Oxamflatin-treated group compared to the Scriptaid-treated positive control. Oxamflatin also decreased DNA methylation of POU5F1 regulatory elements and centromeric repeat elements in day-7 blastocysts. When compared to in vitro-fertilized (IVF) embryos, the methylation status of POU5F1, NANOG, and centromeric repeat was similar in the cloned embryos, indicating these genes were successfully reprogrammed. However, compared to the lack of methylation of XIST in day-7 IVF embryos, a higher methylation level in day-7 cloned embryos was observed, implying that X chromosomes were activated in day-7 IVF blastocysts, but were not fully activated in cloned embryos, i.e., reprogramming of XIST was delayed. A time-course analysis of XIST DNA methylation on day-13, -15, -17, and -19 in vivo embryos revealed that XIST methylation initiated at about day 13 and was not completed by day 19. The methylation of the XIST gene in day-19 control cloned embryos was delayed again when compared to in vivo embryos. However, methylation of XIST in Oxamflatin-treated embryos was comparable with in vivo embryos, which further demonstrated that Oxamflatin could accelerate the delayed reprogramming of XIST gene and thus might improve cloning efficiency.
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- Jiude Mao
- 1 National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO, 65211
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Whitworth KM, Lee K, Benne JA, Beaton BP, Spate LD, Murphy SL, Samuel MS, Mao J, O'Gorman C, Walters EM, Murphy CN, Driver J, Mileham A, McLaren D, Wells KD, Prather RS. Use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system to produce genetically engineered pigs from in vitro-derived oocytes and embryos. Biol Reprod 2014; 91:78. [PMID: 25100712 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.121723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 235] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Targeted modification of the pig genome can be challenging. Recent applications of the CRISPR/Cas9 system hold promise for improving the efficacy of genome editing. When a designed CRISPR/Cas9 system targeting CD163 or CD1D was introduced into somatic cells, it was highly efficient in inducing mutations. When these mutated cells were used with somatic cell nuclear transfer, offspring with these modifications were created. When the CRISPR/Cas9 system was delivered into in vitro produced presumptive porcine zygotes, the system was effective in creating mutations in eGFP, CD163, and CD1D (100% targeting efficiency in blastocyst stage embryos); however, it also presented some embryo toxicity. We could also induce deletions in CD163 or CD1D by introducing two types of CRISPRs with Cas9. The system could also disrupt two genes, CD163 and eGFP, simultaneously when two CRISPRs targeting two genes with Cas9 were delivered into zygotes. Direct injection of CRISPR/Cas9 targeting CD163 or CD1D into zygotes resulted in piglets that have mutations on both alleles with only one CD1D pig having a mosaic genotype. We show here that the CRISPR/Cas9 system can be used by two methods. The system can be used to modify somatic cells followed by somatic cell nuclear transfer. System components can also be used in in vitro produced zygotes to generate pigs with specific genetic modifications.
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- Kristin M Whitworth
- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
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Spate LD, Brown AN, Redel BK, Whitworth KM, Murphy CN, Prather RS. Dickkopf-related protein 1 inhibits the WNT signaling pathway and improves pig oocyte maturation. PLoS One 2014; 9:e95114. [PMID: 24739947 PMCID: PMC3989281 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2014] [Accepted: 03/22/2014] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The ability to mature oocytes in vitro provides a tool for creating embryos by parthenogenesis, fertilization, and cloning. Unfortunately the quality of oocytes matured in vitro falls behind that of in vivo matured oocytes. To address this difference, transcriptional profiling by deep sequencing was conducted on pig oocytes that were either matured in vitro or in vivo. Alignment of over 18 million reads identified 1,316 transcripts that were differentially represented. One pathway that was overrepresented in the oocytes matured in vitro was for Wingless-type MMTV integration site (WNT) signaling. In an attempt to inhibit the WNT pathway, Dickkopf-related protein 1 was added to the in vitro maturation medium. Addition of Dickkopf-related protein 1 improved the percentage of oocytes that matured to the metaphase II stage, increased the number of nuclei in the resulting blastocyst stage embryos, and reduced the amount of disheveled segment polarity protein 1 protein in oocytes. It is concluded that transcriptional profiling is a powerful method for detecting differences between in vitro and in vivo matured oocytes, and that the WNT signaling pathway is important for proper oocyte maturation.
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- Lee D. Spate
- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Science, Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Yuan Y, Lee K, Park KW, Spate LD, Prather RS, Wells KD, Roberts RM. Cell cycle synchronization of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF)-dependent porcine-induced pluripotent stem cells and the generation of cloned embryos. Cell Cycle 2014; 13:1265-76. [PMID: 24621508 DOI: 10.4161/cc.28176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Nuclear transfer (NT) from porcine iPSC to create cloned piglets is unusually inefficient. Here we examined whether such failure might be related to the cell cycle stage of donor nuclei. Porcine iPSC, derived here from the inner cell mass of blastocysts, have a prolonged S phase and are highly sensitive to drugs normally used for synchronization. However, a double-blocking procedure with 0.3 μM aphidicolin for 10 h followed by 20 ng/ml nocodazole for 4 h arrested 94.3% of the cells at G2/M and, after release from the block, provided 70.1% cells in the subsequent G1 phase without causing any significant loss of cell viability or pluripotent phenotype. Nuclei from different cell cycle stages were used as donors for NT to in vitro-matured metaphase II oocytes. G2/M nuclei were more efficient than either G1 and S stage nuclei in undergoing first cleavage and in producing blastocysts, but all groups had a high incidence of chromosomal/nuclear abnormalities at 2 h and 6 h compared with non-synchronized NT controls from fetal fibroblasts. Many G2 embryos extruded a pseudo-second polar body soon after NT and, at blastocyst, tended to be either polyploid or diploid. By contrast, the few G1 blastocysts that developed were usually mosaic or aneuploid. The poor developmental potential of G1 nuclei may relate to lack of a G1/S check point, as the cells become active in DNA synthesis shortly after exit from mitosis. Together, these data provide at least a partial explanation for the almost complete failure to produce cloned piglets from piPSC.
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- Ye Yuan
- Division of Animal Sciences and Bond Life Sciences Center; University of Missouri; Columbia, MO USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences; University of Missouri; Columbia, MO USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences; University of Missouri; Columbia, MO USA; Department of Animal Science and Technology; Sunchon National University; Suncheon, Jeonnam, Korea
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- Division of Animal Sciences; University of Missouri; Columbia, MO USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences; University of Missouri; Columbia, MO USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences; University of Missouri; Columbia, MO USA
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- Division of Animal Sciences and Bond Life Sciences Center; University of Missouri; Columbia, MO USA
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Cryopreservation of swine embryos is inefficient. Our goal was to develop a non-invasive method for “relatively” high-throughput cryopreservation of in vivo-produced swine embryos. Since removal of the lipid droplets within early swine embryos improves cryosurvival we wanted to apply a technique of high osmolality treatment followed by centrifugation that was first developed for in vitro-produced swine embryos to in vivo-produced swine embryos. The first aim was to determine how sensitive the in vivo-produced zygote and 2-cell stage embryo was to various high osmolality conditions for a short duration. Culture for 6, 12 or 18 min at 300, 400 or 500 milliosmoles (mOsm) had no detectable affect on the resulting blastocyst stage embryos (number of inner cell mass nuclei, trophectoderm nuclei, total number of nuclei, ratio of the trophectoderm to inner cell mass nuclei or percent blastocyst). However there was an effect of gilt on each of these parameters. For the second aim we focused on 300 mOsm for 6 min, 400 mOsm for 12 min, 500 mOsm for 12 min, and 500 mOsm for 18 min. The embryos were centrifuged for the duration of high osmolality treatment, then cultured to the blastocyst stage and vitrified. After vitrification and thawing the 500 mOsm for 18 min had the highest percent re-expansion with no difference in the total number of nuclei. While requiring a different base culture medium than in vitro-produced embryos, in vivo-derived embryos also survive cryopreservation without damage to their zona pellucida.
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- Lee D. Spate
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Isom SC, Stevens JR, Li R, Spollen WG, Cox L, Spate LD, Murphy CN, Prather RS. Transcriptional profiling by RNA-Seq of peri-attachment porcine embryos generated by a variety of assisted reproductive technologies. Physiol Genomics 2013; 45:577-89. [PMID: 23695885 DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00094.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Substantial mortality of in vitro manipulated porcine embryos is observed during peri-attachment development. Herein we describe our efforts to characterize the transcriptomes of embryonic disc (ED) and trophectoderm (TE) cells from porcine embryos derived from in vivo fertilization, in vitro fertilization (IVF), parthenogenetic oocyte activation (PA), and somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) on days 10, 12, and 14 of gestation. The IVF, PA, and SCNT embryos were generated with in vitro matured oocytes and were cultured overnight in vitro before being transferred to recipient females. Sequencing of cDNA from the resulting embryonic samples was accomplished with the Genome Analyzer IIx platform from Illumina. Reads were aligned to a custom-built swine transcriptome. A generalized linear model was fit for ED and TE samples separately, accounting for embryo type, gestation day, and their interaction. Those genes with significant differences between embryo types were characterized in terms of gene ontologies and KEGG pathways. Transforming growth factor-β signaling was downregulated in the EDs of IVF embryos. In TE cells from IVF embryos, ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis and ErbB signaling were aberrantly regulated. Expression of genes involved in chromatin modification, gene silencing by RNA, and apoptosis was significantly disrupted in ED cells from SCNT embryos. In summary, we have used high-throughput sequencing technologies to compare gene expression profiles of various embryo types during peri-attachment development. We expect that these data will provide important insight into the root causes of (and possible opportunities for mitigation of) suboptimal development of embryos derived from assisted reproductive technologies.
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- S Clay Isom
- Animal Dairy & Veterinary Sciences Department, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA.
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Mao J, Tessanne K, Whitworth KM, Spate LD, Walters EM, Samuel MS, Murphy CN, Tracy L, Zhao J, Prather RS. Effects of combined treatment of MG132 and scriptaid on early and term development of porcine somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos. Cell Reprogram 2012; 14:385-9. [PMID: 22917492 DOI: 10.1089/cell.2012.0018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Although improving, the efficiency of producing offspring by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is still low (<1.5%). Our laboratory has demonstrated that histone deacetylase inhibitor (Scriptaid) treatment of reconstructed embryos enhances blastocyst formation and cloning efficiency in pigs. It has also been shown that proteasomal inhibitor MG132 treatment for 2 h after activation of oocytes increases blastocyst rate and pregnancy rate. The current experiment was carried out to determine the effects of combined MG132 and Scriptaid treatment on early embryo development in vitro and on term development in vivo. Immediately after electrofusion and activation, SCNT oocytes were treated with 0, 1, or 10 μM MG132 for 2 h in the presence of 500 nM Scriptaid, washed and treated with Scriptaid for an additional 14 to 15 h, then cultured in porcine zygote medium 3 (PZM3) until day 6. There was no difference in percent cleavage (58.1 ± 7.2%, 62.7 ± 7.2%, and 62.5 ± 7.2%) on day 2, or total cell number (23.1 ± 2.2, 24.0 ± 2.0, and 24.5 ± 2.3 for the 0, 1, and 10 μM MG132 groups, respectively) on day 6 among the three groups. Interestingly, there was no difference in percentage of blastocysts between the 0 (18.5±4.7%) and 1 (25.1 ± 4.7%) μM MG132 treatment groups; however, compared with the 10 μM MG132 group (14.0 ± 4.7%), more embryos from the 1 μM MG132 group developed into blastocysts (p<0.05). To determine the effects on term development in vivo, two MG132 groups were included (0 and 1 μM MG132), and embryos were treated as above and transferred into synchronized surrogates after treatment. There was no difference in the oocyte-donor cell fusion rate, number of embryos transferred, pregnancy rate at days 28, 60, and at term, pigs delivered per embryo transfer, litter size, body weight at birth, nor cloning efficiency between the Scriptaid-alone control and MG132+Scriptaid combined groups. In summary, the combined treatment of MG132 and Scriptaid did not improve term development compared to Scriptaid treatment alone.
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- Jiude Mao
- National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Lichtenauer AM, Spate LD, Prather RS, Green JA. Inhibition of Cysteine Proteinases During In Vitro Oocyte Maturation Improves Development of Porcine Cumulus-Oocyte-Complexes. Biol Reprod 2012. [DOI: 10.1093/biolreprod/87.s1.309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Mao J, Whitworth KM, Spate LD, Walters EM, Zhao J, Prather RS. Regulation of oocyte mitochondrial DNA copy number by follicular fluid, EGF, and neuregulin 1 during in vitro maturation affects embryo development in pigs. Theriogenology 2012; 78:887-97. [PMID: 22626782 DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2012.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2012] [Revised: 03/20/2012] [Accepted: 04/09/2012] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Little is known about mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) replication during oocyte maturation and its regulation by extracellular factors. The present study determined the effects of supplementation of maturation medium with porcine follicular fluid (pFF; 0, 10%, 20%, and 30%) on mtDNA copy number and oocyte maturation in experiment 1; the effects on epidermal growth factor (EGF; 10 ng/mL), neuregulin 1 (NRG1; 20 ng/mL), and NRG1 + insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1; 100 ng/mL + NRG1 20 ng/mL), on mtDNA copy number, oocyte maturation, and embryo development after parthenogenic activation in experiment 2; and effects on embryo development after in vitro fertilization in experiment 3. Overall, mtDNA copy number increased from germinal vesicle (GV) to metaphase II (MII) stage oocytes after in vitro maturation (GV: 167 634.6 ± 20 740.4 vs. MII: 275 131.9 ± 9 758.4 in experiment 1; P < 0.05; GV: 185 004.7 ± 20 089.3 vs. MII: 239 392.8 ± 10 345.3 in experiment 2; P < 0.05; Least Squares Means ± SEM). Supplementation of IVM medium with pFF inhibited mtDNA replication (266 789.9 ± 11 790.4 vs. 318 510.1 ± 20 377.4; P < 0.05) and oocyte meiotic maturation (67.3 ± 0.7% vs. 73.2 ± 1.2%, for the pFF supplemented and zero pFF control, respectively; P < 0.01). Compared with the control, addition of growth factors enhanced oocyte maturation. Furthermore, supplementation of NRG1 stimulated mitochondrial replication, increased mtDNA copies in MII oocytes than in GV oocytes, and increased percentage of blastocysts in both parthenogenetic and in vitro fertilized embryos. In this study, mitochondrial biogenesis in oocytes was stimulated during in vitro maturation. Oocyte mtDNA copy number was associated with developmental competence. Supplementation of maturation medium with NRG1 increased mtDNA copy number, and thus provides a means to improve oocyte quality and developmental competence in pigs.
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- J Mao
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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Zhao MT, Yang X, Lee K, Mao J, Teson JM, Whitworth KM, Samuel MS, Spate LD, Murphy CN, Prather RS. The in vivo developmental potential of porcine skin-derived progenitors and neural stem cells. Stem Cells Dev 2012; 21:2682-8. [PMID: 22482370 DOI: 10.1089/scd.2012.0067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Multipotent skin-derived progenitors (SKPs) can be traced back to embryonic neural crest cells and are able to differentiate into both neural and mesodermal progeny in vitro. Neural stem cells (NSCs) are capable of self-renewing and can contribute to neuron and glia in the nervous system. Recently, we derived porcine SKPs and NSCs from the same enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) transgenic fetuses and demonstrated that SKPs could contribute to neural and mesodermal lineages in vivo. However, it remains unclear whether porcine SKPs and NSCs can generate ectoderm and mesoderm lineages or other germ layers in vivo. Embryonic chimeras are a well-established tool for investigating cell lineage determination and cell potency through normal embryonic development. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the in vivo developmental potential of porcine SKPs and fetal brain-derived NSCs by chimera production. Porcine SKPs, NSCs, and fibroblasts were injected into precompact in vitro fertilized embryos (IVF) and then transferred into corresponding surrogates 24 h postinjection. We found that porcine SKPs could incorporate into the early embryos and contribute to various somatic tissues of the 3 germ layers in postnatal chimera, and especially have an endodermal potency. However, this developmental potential is compromised when they differentiate into fibroblasts. In addition, porcine NSCs fail to incorporate into host embryos and contribute to chimeric piglets. Therefore, neural crest-derived SKPs may represent a more primitive state than their counterpart neural stem cells in terms of their contributions to multiple cell lineages.
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- Ming-Tao Zhao
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Spate LD, Redel BK, Brown AN, Murphy CN, Prather RS. Replacement of bovine serum albumin with N-methyl-D-aspartic acid and homocysteine improves development, but not live birth. Mol Reprod Dev 2012; 79:310. [PMID: 22407887 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2012] [Accepted: 02/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Redel BK, Brown AN, Spate LD, Whitworth KM, Green JA, Prather RS. Glycolysis in preimplantation development is partially controlled by the Warburg Effect. Mol Reprod Dev 2011; 79:262-71. [PMID: 22213464 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2011] [Accepted: 12/09/2011] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Glucose metabolism in preimplantation embryos has traditionally been viewed from a somatic cell viewpoint. Here, we show that gene expression in early embryos is similar to rapidly dividing cancer cells. In vitro-produced pig blastocysts were subjected to deep-sequencing, and were found to express two gene variants that have been ascribed importance to cancer cell metabolism (HK2 and the M2 variant of PKM2). Development was monitored and gene expression was quantified in additional embryos cultured in low or high O(2) (5% CO(2), 5% O(2), 90% N(2) vs. 5% CO(2) in air). Development to the blastocyst stage in the two atmospheres was similar, except low O(2) resulted in more total and inner cell mass nuclei than high O(2). Of the 15 candidate genes selected that are involved in glucose metabolism, only TALDO1 and PDK1 were increased in the low O(2) environment. One paradigm that has been used to explain glycolysis under low oxygen tension is the Warburg Effect (WE). The WE predicts that expression of both HK2 and PKM2 M2 results in a slowing of glucose metabolism through the TCA cycle, thereby forcing the products of glycolysis to be metabolized through the pentose phosphate pathway and to lactic acid. This charging of the system is apparently so important to the early embryo that redundant mechanisms are present, that is, a fetal form of PKM2 and high levels of PDK1. Here, we set the framework for using the WE to describe glucose metabolism and energy production during preimplantation development.
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- Bethany K Redel
- Division of Animal Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Whitworth KM, Zhao J, Spate LD, Li R, Prather RS. Scriptaid Corrects Gene Expression of a Few Aberrantly Reprogrammed Transcripts in Nuclear Transfer Pig Blastocyst Stage Embryos. Cell Reprogram 2011; 13:191-204. [DOI: 10.1089/cell.2010.0087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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- Kristin M. Whitworth
- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, E125 Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, E125 Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, E125 Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, E125 Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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- Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, E125 Animal Science Research Center, Columbia, Missouri
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Bauer BK, Isom SC, Spate LD, Whitworth KM, Spollen WG, Blake SM, Springer GK, Murphy CN, Prather RS. Transcriptional Profiling by Deep Sequencing Identifies Differences in mRNA Transcript Abundance in In Vivo-Derived Versus In Vitro-Cultured Porcine Blastocyst Stage Embryos1. Biol Reprod 2010; 83:791-8. [DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.085936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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