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Development, Vol 101, Issue 4 915-923, Copyright © 1987 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
SK Howlett, SC Barton and MA Surani
Department of Molecular Embryology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge, UK.
We have investigated the development of reconstituted embryos in which enucleated 1- or 2-cell embryos received various advanced nuclei. Enucleated 1-cells developed to the blastocyst stage only when an early 2-cell donor nucleus was transferred but very rarely if the donor nucleus was derived from a late 2-cell, early 4-cell or mid 8-cell embryo. Although an 8-cell nucleus could only support development of an enucleated zygote to the 2-cell stage, it did express the hsp 68/70 X 10(3) Mr proteins that are characteristic of the first embryonic gene activity. These polypeptides were absent in enucleated zygotes that did not receive a donor nucleus. Moreover, an 8-cell nucleus transferred to an enucleated late 2-cell blastomere could also support preimplantation development provided that the nuclear:cytoplasmic ratio was maintained as in intact 2-cell blastomeres. 8-cell nuclei transferred to zygotes that retained at least one pronucleus were able to support development to the blastocyst stage provided that the pronucleus was both fully transcriptionally active and present beyond the late 1-cell stage. This study suggests an active and continued helper role of the resident pronucleus for the participation by an 8-cell nucleus in reconstituted eggs.
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