ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2017, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (12): 2277-2285.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2017.12.007

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IGF2-H19 Locus Methylation Status in Cloned Goat Fibroblast Cells

LIU Zi-fei, DENG Ming-tian, REN Cai-fang, WAN Yong-jie, WANG Feng*   

  1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
  • Received:2017-06-12 Online:2017-12-23 Published:2017-12-23

Abstract:

The aim of this experiment was to study the influence of somatic cell nuclear transfer on IGF2-H19 locus methylation in cloned goat fibroblast cells. Goat ear fibroblast cells (GFC, control group) and cloned goat ear fibroblast cells (CFC, experimental group) were used as experimental materials. When cells in the 2 groups were cultured to passage 5, using cell counting method for cell growth curves, flow cytometer for cell apoptosis, real-time PCR for gene relative expression level and bisulfite sequencing PCR for the methylation status of differentially methylated region (DMR). The results showed that cell growth curves in the 2 groups were typical "S"-shaped, but apoptosis rate in CFC group was increased significantly(P<0.01) compared with that in GFC group. The expression level of Dnmt1 (P<0.01), Dnmt3b (P<0.01), Tet1 (P<0.05), Tet2 (P<0.05), H19 (P<0.05) and IGF2 (P<0.01) in CFC group were decreased significantly compared with that in GFC group. However, no statistical differences were found at the expression levels of Tet3、Dnmt3a and IGF2R between the 2 groups. Compared with GFC group, the methylation level of IGF2 DMR1 (74.1% vs. 57.8%, P<0.01) and DMR2 (76.8% vs. 40.0%, P<0.01) were decreased significantly, while the methylation level of IGF2-H19 imprinting control region (ICR) was increased significantly (68.8% vs. 84.0%, P<0.01) in CFC group. Somatic cell nuclear transfer resulted in aberrant methylation of IGF2-H19 locus by influencing Dnmts and Tets genes expression, which could affect genomic imprinting, and then influence the efficiency of serial recloning.

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