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Submitted on January 25, 2006
Accepted on May 8, 2006

Embryonic Stem Cells

Reprogramming Efficiency following Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer is Influenced by the Differentiation and Methylation State of the Donor Nucleus

Robert Blelloch 1, Zhongde Wang 2, Alex Meissner 2, Steven Pollard 3, Austin Smith 3, Rudolf Jaenisch 2*

1 Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
2 Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
3 Centre Development in Stem Cell Biology, Institute for Stem Cell Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jaenisch{at}wi.mit.edu.


   Abstract

Reprogramming of a differentiated cell nucleus by somatic cell nuclear transplantation is an inefficient process. Following nuclear transfer, the donor nucleus often fails to express early embryonic genes and establish a normal embryonic pattern of chromatin modifications. These defects correlate with the low number of cloned embryos able to produce embryonic stem cells or develop into adult animals. Here, we show that the differentiation and methylation state of the donor cell influence the efficiency of genomic reprogramming. First, neural stem cells, when used as donors for nuclear transplantation, produce embryonic stem cells at a higher efficiency than blastocysts derived from terminally differentiated neuronal donor cells demonstrating a correlation between the state of differentiation and cloning efficiency. Second, using a hypomorphic allele of DNA methlytransferase-I, we found that global hypomethylation of a differentiated cell genome improved cloning efficiency. Our results provide functional evidence that the differentiation and epigenetic state of the donor nucleus influences reprogramming efficiency.




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