title: Oxamflatin treatment enhances cloned porcine embryo development and nuclear reprogramming.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 1 National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO, 65211.
authors.forename: Jiude
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Ming-Tao
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Kristin M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Whitworth
authors.forename: Lee D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Spate
authors.forename: Eric M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Walters
authors.forename: Chad
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: O'Gorman
authors.forename: Kiho
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Melissa S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Samuel
authors.forename: Clifton N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wells
authors.forename: Rocio M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Rivera
authors.forename: Randall S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Prather
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001755:Blastocyst / Q000166:cytology*; D065150:Cellular Reprogramming / Q000187:drug effects*; D019976:Cloning, Organism / Q000379:methods*; D019175:DNA Methylation; D046149:Embryo Culture Techniques; D004624:Embryo Transfer / Q000662:veterinary; D047108:Embryonic Development / Q000187:drug effects*; D005260:Female; D056572:Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D006877:Hydroxamic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006898:Hydroxylamines / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D053652:Nuclear Transfer Techniques / Q000662:veterinary; D050814:Octamer Transcription Factor-3 / Q000378:metabolism; D011247:Pregnancy; D011804:Quinolines / Q000494:pharmacology; D062085:RNA, Long Noncoding / Q000378:metabolism; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D056572:Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; D006877:Hydroxamic Acids; D006898:Hydroxylamines; D050814:Octamer Transcription Factor-3; D011804:Quinolines; D062085:RNA, Long Noncoding; C077885:XIST non-coding RNA; C100692:oxamflatin; C410733:scriptaid