KMID : 0894520030070020061
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Development & Reproduction 2003 Volume.7 No. 2 p.61 ~ p.68
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Epigenetic Reprogramming and Cloning
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Çѿ븸/Han YM
°¿ë±¹/±¸´öº»/À̰汤/Kang YK/Koo DB/Lee KK
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Abstract
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Zygote genome should entail a complex process of epigenetic reprogramming including a global DNA demethylation to reach a totipotency or pluripotency during early mammalian development. In this study, we have analyzed methylation patterns in cloned bovine embryos to monitor the epigenetic reprogramming process of donor genomic DNA. Aberrant DNA methylation patterns were observed in various genomic regions of cloned embryos except single-copy gene sequences. The overall genomic methylation status of cloned embryos was quite different from that of normal embryos produced in viª«o or in vivo. Abnormal methylation profiles were also specifically represented in trophectoderm cells of cloned embryos, which probably result in widespread gene dysregulation in extraembryonic region or placental dysfunction familiar to cloned animals. Our findings suggest that developmental failures of cloned embryos are due to incomplete epigenetic reprogramming of donor genomic DNA. Understanding the epigenetic reprogramming processes of donor genome will clearly define the faulty development of cloned embryos.
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