TY - JOUR
T1 - Epigenetic Regulation of Methylated CpG Binding Protein MBD1 and its Effect on Developmental Gene Expression in the Bovine Embryo
AU - Yu, HaiQuan AU - Wang, HuiMin AU - Ao, XuDong AU - Wang, ZhenFei AU - Zhang, Na AU - Gao, HaiXia AU - Bai, HaiDong AU - Yue, YongLi
JO - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL - 12
IS - 21
SP - 1597
EP - 1604
PY - 2013
DA - 2001/08/19
SN - 1680-5593
DO - javaa.2013.1597.1604
UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2013.1597.1604
KW - MBD1
KW -early embryonic development
KW -epigenetic regulation
KW -pluripotency genes
KW -maternal genes
AB - To elucidate the epigenetic regulation of methylated CpG binding
protein (MBD1) gene expression and its effect on other developmental
genes, the expression of MBD1 and the DNA methylation status of its regulatory
region were investigated in differentiated bovine tissues, during oocyte maturation
and in the preimplantation embryo. Firstly, MBD1 gene expression was
analyzed by RT-PCR in bovine heart, liver, kidney, testis and ovary and at different
stages of oocyte maturation and embryonic development. Dynamic changes in DNA
methylation in the regulatory region of MBD1 were detected by bisulfite-sequencing
and chromosome immunoprecipitation was used to investigate the relationship
between MBD1 and the pluripotency genes Nanog, Oct4 and H1foo
or the maternal gene ZAR1. The results showed that the transcription
level of the MBD1 gene was lower in heart and kidney and the DNA methylation
levels of the MBD1 regulatory region were also lower in heart and kidney than
in liver, testis and ovary. The transcription level of MBD1 incresed stably
during the in vitro maturation of oocytes but began to decline dramatically
from the 4 cells embryo stage. However, the DNA methylation levels of the MBD1
regulatory region were identical during either oocyte maturation or embryonic
development. MBD1 protein spatiotemporally binded to the promoter regions of
the pluripotency genes Nanog and Oct4 and the maternal genes ZAR1
and H1foo. These results indicated that during the bovine preimplantation
embryo stages from the germinal vesicle oocyte to the blastocyst, transcription
of MBD1 was not controled by the mechanism of promoter DNA methylation and MBD1
protein may participates in the transcriptional regulation of some key developmental
regulatory genes.
ER -