Comparison of Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Fibroblasts as Donor Nuclei for Handmade Cloning in Sheep Using a Single-Cell Transcriptome

Oocytes are efficient at reprogramming terminally differentiated cells to a totipotent state. Nuclear transfer techniques can exploit this property to produce cloned animals. However, the overall efficiency is low. The use of umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSCs) as donor nuclei may increase blastocyst rates, but the exact reasons for this remain unexplored. A single-cell transcriptomic approach was used to map the transcriptome profiles of eight-cell embryos that were in vitro-fertilized and handmade-cloned using umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells and fibroblasts as nuclear donors. Differences were examined at the chromatin level, the level of differentially expressed genes, the level of histone modifications and the level of DNA methylation. This research provides critical information regarding the use of UC-MSCs as a preferred donor nucleus for nuclear transfer techniques. It also offers unique insights into the mechanism of cellular reprogramming.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI - 14(2024), 4 vom: 10. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Weijian [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yalan [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Guizhen [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zhuo [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Li [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Xiuling [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xuguang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Handmade cloning
Journal Article
Nuclear transplantation
Sheep
Single-cell transcriptome
Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells

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Date Revised 27.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ani14040589

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36886541X