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Acta Scientiae Veterinariae, <strong>2011</strong>. 39(Suppl 1): Abstracts - <strong>25th</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Meeting</strong> <strong>SBTE</strong>-Brazil. August <strong>2011</strong>.<br />

A213 CLONING, TRANSGENESIS AND STEM CELLS<br />

NEW STRATEGY<br />

TEGY TO INDUCE TRANSGENESIS IN IN VITRO FERTILIZA<br />

TILIZATION TION (IVF) BOVINE EMBRYOS<br />

Natalia Gabriela Canel, Romina Jimena Bevacqua, María Inés Hiriart & Daniel Salamone<br />

FACULTAD DE AGRONOMÍA U.B.A., BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA.<br />

Direct plasmid injection into the cytoplasm of IVF zygotes is a simple and efficient method to induce transgenesis in mammals,<br />

however it still gives transient expression from extrachromosomal plasmid DNA. To solve this problem, we employed a new transgenesis<br />

method (Ogino H et al., Nat. Prot., 1, 1703-10) only employed in X. laevis, consisting in intracytoplasmic injection of I-SceI meganuclease<br />

(Mega) plus a plasmid that contains its recognition sites flanking Pax6 promoter-GFP cassette (IS-EGFP). IS-EGFP (gifted by Dr. Ogino H)<br />

was digested by 0.5 UI of Mega at 37ºC for 45 min. Fragment digestion was confirmed by agarose electrophoresis. Digestion mixture or plasmid<br />

alone were transferred to 10% PVP at a final concentration of 25 or 50 ng/µL IS-EGFP (groups IS-EGFP 25/50 +Mega, for digestion mixture,<br />

and IS-EGFP 25/50 for plasmid alone) and were microinjected into IVF presumptive zygotes. A control group injected with 50 ng/µL of pCX-<br />

EGFP plasmid was included. Embryos were cultured in SOF medium and rates of blastocysts were evaluated on day 7. Expression of egfp was<br />

determined at days 4, 5 and 7. Data was analyzed by Fisher’s test. All treatments showed no differences in blastocyst rates [from 8/40 (20%) to<br />

19/51 (37.3%)]. Expression of egfp at day 4 was lower (P < 0.05) for all treatments compared to control group (from 0 to 8.2% vs. 30.2%),<br />

except for IS-EGFP 50 (22.5%). The same pattern was observed at day 5 for IS-EGFP 25 +Mega or alone groups (8.2 and 7.9% respectively),<br />

but not (P < 0.05) for IS-EGFP +Mega or alone groups (13.7 and 47.5% respectively), which did not differed from control (30.2%). At day 7,<br />

all groups showed egfp expression levels not different from control (from 23.8 to 35% vs. 32.6%), except for IS-EGFP 25 +Mega, which<br />

showed lower (P < 0.05) expression levels (14.3%). Embryos with IS-EGFP 25 +Mega or alone and IS-EGFP 50 +Mega tended to show lower<br />

expression rates than those with IS-EGFP 50 alone or control. Blastocyst rates of embryos expressing egfp did not differed among groups.<br />

However, at all evaluations, groups with Mega showed a tendency to express egfp at lower levels than the groups treated with plasmid alone.<br />

Conclusions: IS-EGFP has a delayed expression dynamics compared with pCX-EGFP. The presence of the enzyme keeps the EGFP fragment<br />

released, possibly preventing concatemer formation. Our results show that the use of IS-EGFP + Mega influences the transient transgene<br />

expression in IVF bovine embryos.<br />

Keywords: transgenesis, ivf, bovine.<br />

A214 CLONING, TRANSGENESIS AND STEM CELLS<br />

EXPRESSION OF XIST, G6PD AND HSPA1A GENES IN BOVINE BLAST<br />

ASTOCY<br />

OCYST<br />

STS S RECONSTITUTED BY NT FROM<br />

RECIPIENT OOCYTES PRODUCED BY CHEMICALL<br />

ALLY ASSISTED ENUCLEATION<br />

N aiara a Zo ccal Sar<br />

araiv<br />

aiva 1 , Clar<br />

lara a Slade Oliv<br />

liveir<br />

eira 1 , Ta tiane Almeida Dr ummond Tetzner<br />

1 , Mar<br />

arina Ragagnin de Lima 1 , Simone Cr istina<br />

Méo 2 & Joaquim Mansano Garcia 1<br />

1<br />

FCAV-UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL PAULISTA - UNESP, JABOTICABAL, SP, BRAZIL. 2 EMBRAPA PECUÁRIA SUDESTE-CPPSE, SÃO CARLOS, SP, BRAZIL.<br />

N<br />

The aim of this work was to study the effect of enucleation (EN) technique on the expression of XIST, G6PD and HSPA1A genes<br />

on bovine blastocysts produced by IVF, parthenogenetic activation and reconstitution by NT of somatic cells after conventional EN or chemically<br />

assisted EN. Bovine oocytes were in vitro matured in TCM 199 + FCS + hormones for up 24 h. IVF embryos were produced with female<br />

sexed sperm because the cell line of donor nuclei for NT was female. Parthenogenetic embryos were produced by activation with 5 ìM<br />

ionomycin for 5 min and 10 µg/mL cycloheximide for 4 h. In conventional EN, after IVM for 18 h, MII oocytes were denuded, incubated with<br />

Hoechst 33342, and enucleated by removing the 1 st PB and the adjacent cytoplasm. In chemically assisted EN, after 19 h of IVM, the oocytes<br />

were denuded, exposed to 0.05 ìg/mL demecolcine for 2 h and underwent to enucleation, through the removal of the protrusion formed in the<br />

cortical region. After in vitro culture in SOFaa with 2.5% FCS and 0.5% BSA for seven days at 38.5°C, 5% CO 2<br />

in air under saturated<br />

humidity, blastocysts were individually submitted to RNA extraction with Trizol and reverse transcription with Reverse Transcriptase<br />

ImPron-II kit. Relative transcript quantification of XIST, G6PD e HSPA1A genes was performed in real-time PCR with SYBR Green ®<br />

(Invitrogen), employing GAPDH as endogenous control, in triplicate, with five to ten samples per group and final volume of 20 ìL. The measn<br />

amplification efficiency was estimated using a linear regression on the log fluorescence per cycle. After applying the comparative CT method<br />

(ÄÄCT) with the SDS software v1.4, data was analyzed by the pairwise fixed reallocation randomization test. All expression ratios were<br />

calibrated by IVF group and shown in log 10 scale. No significant differences in XIST and G6PD genes were detected between control groups<br />

(IVF: 0 and 0, and parthenogenetic: 4.088 and 1.398, respectively) and reconstituted groups. However, a higher expression (P < 0.05) of these<br />

genes was seen in chemically assisted EN group (6.690 and 3.851) compared to conventional EN (-0.643 and -0.794). HSPA1 gene expression<br />

was similar (P > 0.05) between groups. Tthe expression of the G6PD gene has been associated with high embryo respiratory activity rates,<br />

suggesting that the increased expression of this gene is indicative of embryo quality. Also, higher levels of ROS generated by increased oxygen<br />

consumption may trigger G6PD activation. The expression pattern of more genes related to stress response should be investigated to conclude<br />

if the difference in expression between the EN techniques relates to the quality of embryos obtained. [Funded by FAPESP 06/51481-5 and<br />

07/55969-5].<br />

Keywords: demecolcine, enucleation, gene expression.<br />

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