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Aug 22, 2019

The Relationship between Embryonic Development and the Efficiency of Target Mutations in Porcine Endogenous Retroviruses (PERVs) Pol Genes in Porcine Embryos.

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
  • Maki Hirata
  • ,
  • Manita Wittayarat
  • ,
  • Takayuki Hirano
  • ,
  • Nhien Thi Nguyen
  • ,
  • Quynh Anh Le
  • ,
  • Zhao Namula
  • ,
  • Mokhamad Fahrudin
  • ,
  • Fuminori Tanihara
  • ,
  • Takeshige Otoi

Volume
9
Number
9
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.3390/ani9090593

Porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) is a provirus found in the pig genome that may act as an infectious pathogen in humans who receive pig organ xenotransplantation. Inactivation of the PERV pol gene in porcine cells reportedly affects cell growth. Therefore, the mutation of PERV pol gene in porcine embryos using genome editing may affect the embryonic development. The present study was carried out to investigate the relationship between the mutation of the PERV pol gene in porcine embryos and their development. We introduced, either alone or in combination, three different gRNAs (gRNA1, 2, and 3) into porcine zygotes by genome editing using electroporation of the Cas9 protein (GEEP) system. All three gRNAs targeted the PERV pol gene, and we assessed their effects on porcine embryonic development. Our results showed that the blastocyst formation rates of zygotes electroporated with gRNA3-alone and in combination-were significantly lower (p < 0.05) than those of zygotes electroporated with gRNA1. The mutation rates assessed by the PERV pol gene target site sequencing in individual blastocysts and pooled embryos at the 2-to-8-cell stage did not differ among the three gRNAs. However, the frequency of indel mutations in mutant embryos at the 2-to-8-cell stage trended higher in the embryos electroporated with gRNA3 alone and in combination. Embryonic development may be affected by gRNAs that induce high-frequency indel mutations.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9090593
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31443357
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6770129
ID information
  • DOI : 10.3390/ani9090593
  • Pubmed ID : 31443357
  • Pubmed Central ID : PMC6770129

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