title: Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells are an attractive donor cell type for production of cloned pigs as well as genetically modified cloned pigs by somatic cell nuclear transfer.
abstract: The somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) technique has been widely applied to clone pigs or to produce genetically modified pigs. Currently, this technique relies mainly on using terminally differentiated fibroblasts as donor cells. To improve cloning efficiency, only partially differentiated multipotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), thought to be more easily reprogrammed to a pluripotent state, have been used as nuclear donors in pig SCNT. Although in vitro-cultured embryos cloned from porcine MSCs (MSCs-embryos) were shown to have higher preimplantation developmental ability than cloned embryos reconstructed from fibroblasts (Fs-embryos), the difference in in vivo full-term developmental rate between porcine MSCs-embryos and Fs-embryos has not been investigated so far. In this study, we demonstrated that blastocyst total cell number and full-term survival abilities of MSCs-embryos were significantly higher than those of Fs-embryos cloned from the same donor pig. The enhanced developmental potential of MSCs-embryos may be associated with their nuclear donors' DNA methylation profile, because we found that the methylation level of imprinting genes and repeat sequences differed between MSCs and fibroblasts. In addition, we showed that use of transgenic porcine MSCs generated from transgene plasmid transfection as donor cells for SCNT can produce live transgenic cloned pigs. These results strongly suggest that porcine bone marrow MSCs are a desirable donor cell type for production of cloned pigs and genetically modified cloned pigs via SCNT.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, South China Agricultural University , Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, 510642.
authors.forename: Zicong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiaoyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Liwen
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Junsong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Weihua
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Dewu
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Zhenfang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030801:Animals, Genetically Modified; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D019070:Cell Lineage; D019976:Cloning, Organism; D019175:DNA Methylation; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Q000737:chemistry*; D053652:Nuclear Transfer Techniques; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013552:Swine
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