title: Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Activity Is Not Essential for the First Step of Nuclear Reprogramming in Bovine Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer.
abstract: For reprogramming a somatic nucleus during mammalian cloning, metaphase of the second meiotic division (MII) oocytes has been widely used as recipient cytoplasm. High activity of maturation-promoting factor (MPF) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) is believed to accelerate the remodeling and/or reprogramming of a somatic nucleus introduced into the ooplasm by somatic cell nuclear transfer. We demonstrated previously that the first step in nuclear reprogramming is not directly regulated by MPF and MAPK because activated oocytes in which MPF activity is diminished and MAPK activity is maintained can develop to the blastocyst stage after receiving an M phase somatic nucleus in bovine cloning. In this study, our aim was to test whether MAPK activity is necessary for the first step in nuclear reprogramming and/or chromatin remodeling (phosphorylation of histone H3 at Ser3, trimethylation of histone H3 at Lys 9, and acetylation of histone H3 at Lys14) in bovine somatic cloning. We found that it was not necessary, and neither was MPF activity.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Department of Advanced Bioscience, Faculty of Agriculture, Kindai University , Nara, Japan .
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tani
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Department of Advanced Bioscience, Faculty of Agriculture, Kindai University , Nara, Japan .
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kato
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001755:Blastocyst / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D002417:Cattle; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000201:enzymology*; D065150:Cellular Reprogramming / Q000502:physiology*; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000201:enzymology; D005260:Female; D016200:Maturation-Promoting Factor / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D053652:Nuclear Transfer Techniques / Q000662:veterinary*; D009865:Oocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D016200:Maturation-Promoting Factor; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
keywords: MAPK; MPF; nuclear transfer; ooplasm; reprogramming