Gene expression and DNA methylation status of chicken primordial germ cells

Molecular Biotechnology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 177-186

  Jang, Hyun Jun ^a   Seo, Hee Won ^a   Lee, Bo Ram ^a   Yoo, Min ^a   Womack, James E ^b   Han, Jae Yong ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CEFs; DNA methylation; Gene microarray; Methylation chip; PGCs

Indexed keywords

CEFS; DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENE; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC FIBROBLASTS; GENE MICROARRAYS; PGCS; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL;

ALKYLATION; CELL CULTURE; MAMMALS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELLS; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84882899010     PISSN: 10736085     EISSN: 15590305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12033-012-9560-5     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Baudat, F., Buard, J., Grey, C., Fledel-Alon, A., Ober, C., Przeworski, M., et al. (2010). PRDM9 is a major determinant of meiotic recombination hotspots in humans and mice. Science, 327, 836-840.
2. Boumil, R. M., Ogawa, Y., Sun, B. K., Huynh, K. D., & Lee, J. T. (2006). Differential methylation of Xite and CTCF sites in Tsix mirrors the pattern of X-inactivation choice in mice. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 26, 2109-2117.
3. Chambers, I., Silva, J., Colby, D., Nichols, J., Nijmeijer, B., Robertson, M., et al. (2007). Nanog safeguards pluripotency and mediates germline development. Nature, 450, 1230-1234.
4. Chow, J. C., Yen, Z., Ziesche, S. M., & Brown, C. J. (2005). Silencing of the mammalian X chromosome. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 6, 69-92.
5. Colosi, D. C., Martin, D., More, K., & Lalande, M. (2006). Genomic organization and allelic expression of UBE3A in chicken. Gene, 383, 93-98.
6. Deakin, J. E., Koina, E., Waters, P. D., Doherty, R., Patel, V. S., Delbridge, M. L., et al. (2008). Physical map of two tammar wallaby chromosomes: A strategy for mapping in non-model mammals. Chromosome Research, 16, 1159-1175.
7. Do, J. T., & Scholer, H. R. (2009). Regulatory circuits underlying pluripotency and reprogramming. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 30, 296-302.
8. Dunzinger, U., Haaf, T., & Zechner, U. (2007). Conserved synteny of mammalian imprinted genes in chicken, frog, and fish genomes. Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 117, 78-85.
9. Farthing, C. R., Ficz, G., Ng, R. K., Chan, C. F., Andrews, S., Dean, W., et al. (2008). Global mapping of DNA methylation in mouse promoters reveals epigenetic reprogramming of pluripotency genes. PLoS Genetics, 4, e1000116.
10. Hajkova, P., Erhardt, S., Lane, N., Haaf, T., El-Maarri, O., Reik, W., et al. (2002). Epigenetic reprogramming in mouse primordial germ cells. Mechanisms of Development, 117, 15-23.
11. Hubbell, E., Liu, W. M., & Mei, R. (2002). Robust estimators for expression analysis. Bioinformatics, 18, 1585-1592.
12. Itoh, Y., Kampf, K., & Arnold, A. P. (2011). Possible differences in the two Z chromosomes in male chickens and evolution of MHM sequences in Galliformes. Chromosoma, 120, 587-598.
13. Jang, H. J., Choi, J. W., Kim, Y. M., Shin, S. S., Lee, K., & Han, J. Y. (2011). Reactivation of transgene expression by alleviating CpG methylation of the Rous sarcoma virus promoter in transgenic quail cells. Molecular Biotechnology, 49, 222-228.
14. Kang, S. J., Choi, J. W., Kim, S. Y., Park, K. J., Kim, T. M., Lee, Y. M., et al. (2008). Reproduction of wild birds via interspecies germ cell transplantation. Biology of Reproduction, 79, 931-937.
15. Kim, H., Park, T. S., Lee, W. K., Moon, S., Kim, J. N., Shin, J. H., et al. (2007). MPSS profiling of embryonic gonad and primordial germ cells in chicken. Physiological Genomics, 29, 253-259.
16. Kim, J. N., Kim, M. A., Park, T. S., Kim, D. K., Park, H. J., Ono, T., et al. (2004). Enriched gonadal migration of donor-derived gonadal primordial germ cells by immunomagnetic cell sorting in birds. Molecular Reproduction and Development, 68, 81-87.
17. Kota, S. K., & Feil, R. (2010). Epigenetic transitions in germ cell development and meiosis. Developmental Cell, 19, 675-686.
18. Lee, B. R., Kim, H., Park, T. S., Moon, S., Cho, S., Park, T., et al. (2007). A set of stage-specific gene transcripts identified in EK stage X and HH stage 3 chick embryos. BMC Developmental Biology, 7, 60.
19. Lee, S. I., Kim, J. K., Park, H. J., Jang, H. J., Lee, H. C., Min, T., et al. (2010). Molecular cloning and characterization of the germ cell-related nuclear orphan receptor in chickens. Molecular Reproduction and Development, 77, 273-284.
20. Lees-Murdock, D. J., & Walsh, C. P. (2008). DNA methylation reprogramming in the germ line. Epigenetics, 3, 5-13.
21. Leighton, P. A., Saam, J. R., Ingram, R. S., & Tilghman, S. M. (1996). Genomic imprinting in mice: Its function and mechanism. Biology of Reproduction, 54, 273-278.
22. Li, J. Y., Lees-Murdock, D. J., Xu, G. L., & Walsh, C. P. (2004). Timing of establishment of paternal methylation imprints in the mouse. Genomics, 84, 952-960.
23. Li, Q., Li, N., Hu, X., Li, J., Du, Z., Chen, L., et al. (2011). Genome-wide mapping of DNA methylation in chicken. PLoS ONE, 6, e19428.
24. Luo, J., Yu, Y., Zhang, H., Tian, F., Chang, S., Cheng, H. H., et al. (2011). Down-regulation of promoter methylation level of CD4 gene after MDV infection in MD-susceptible chicken line. BMC Proceedings, 5(Suppl 4), S7.
25. Mitsui, K., Tokuzawa, Y., Itoh, H., Segawa, K., Murakami, M., Takahashi, K., et al. (2003). The homeoprotein nanog is required for maintenance of pluripotency in mouse epiblast and ES cells. Cell, 113, 631-642.
26. Myers, S., Bowden, R., Tumian, A., Bontrop, R. E., Freeman, C., MacFie, T. S., et al. (2010). Drive against hotspot motifs in primates implicates the PRDM9 gene in meiotic recombination. Science, 327, 876-879.
27. Nakamura, Y., Yamamoto, Y., Usui, F., Mushika, T., Ono, T., Setioko, A. R., et al. (2007). Migration and proliferation of primordial germ cells in the early chicken embryo. Poultry Science, 86, 2182-2193.
28. Nettersheim, D., Biermann, K., Gillis, A. J., Steger, K., Looijenga, L. H., & Schorle, H. (2011). NANOG promoter methylation and expression correlation during normal and malignant human germ cell development. Epigenetics, 6, 114-122.
29. Nieuwkoop, P. D., & Sutasurya, L. A. (1979). Primordial germ cells in the chordates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
30. Ogawa, A., Solovei, I., Hutchison, N., Saitoh, Y., Ikeda, J. E., Macgregor, H., et al. (1997). Molecular characterization and cytological mapping of a non-repetitive DNA sequence region from the W chromosome of chicken and its use as a universal probe for sexing carinatae birds. Chromosome Research, 5, 93-101.
31. Park, T. S., Jeong, D. K., Kim, J. N., Song, G. H., Hong, Y. H., Lim, J. M., et al. (2003). Improved germline transmission in chicken chimeras produced by transplantation of gonadal primordial germ cells into recipient embryos. Biology of Reproduction, 68, 1657-1662.
32. Petitte, J. N., Karagenc, L., & Ginsburg, M. (1997). The origin of the avian germ line and transgenesis in birds. Poultry Science, 76, 1084-1092.
33. Rajender, S., Avery, K., & Agarwal, A. (2011). Epigenetics, spermatogenesis and male infertility. Mutation Research, 727, 62-71.
34. Ralston, A., & Rossant, J. (2005). Genetic regulation of stem cell origins in the mouse embryo. Clinical Genetics, 68, 106-112.
35. Reik, W. (2007). Stability and flexibility of epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian development. Nature, 447, 425-432.
36. Rodda, D. J., Chew, J. L., Lim, L. H., Loh, Y. H., Wang, B., Ng, H. H., et al. (2005). Transcriptional regulation of nanog by OCT4 and SOX2. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280, 24731-24737.
37. Sasaki, H., & Matsui, Y. (2008). Epigenetic events in mammalian germ-cell development: Reprogramming and beyond. Nature Reviews Genetics, 9, 129-140.
38. Shin, S., Han, J. Y., & Lee, K. (2010). Cloning of avian delta-like 1 homolog gene: The biallelic expression of delta-like 1 homolog in avian species. Poultry Science, 89, 948-955.
39. Siegfried, Z., & Simon, I. (2010). DNA methylation and gene expression. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine, 2, 362-371.
40. Smith, J. J., & Voss, S. R. (2007). Bird and mammal sex-chromosome orthologs map to the same autosomal region in a salamander (ambystoma). Genetics, 177, 607-613.
41. Tam, P. P., Zhou, S. X., & Tan, S. S. (1994). X-chromosome activity of the mouse primordial germ cells revealed by the expression of an X-linked lacZ transgene. Development, 120, 2925-2932.
42. Tsunekawa, N., Naito, M., Sakai, Y., Nishida, T., & Noce, T. (2000). Isolation of chicken vasa homolog gene and tracing the origin of primordial germ cells. Development, 127, 2741-2750.
43. Weber, M., & Schubeler, D. (2007). Genomic patterns of DNA methylation: Targets and function of an epigenetic mark. Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 19, 273-280.
44. Western, P. S., van den Bergen, J. A., Miles, D. C., & Sinclair, A. H. (2010). Male fetal germ cell differentiation involves complex repression of the regulatory network controlling pluripotency. FASEB Journal, 24, 3026-3035.
45. Wu, C. I., & Xu, E. Y. (2003). Sexual antagonism and X inactivation - The SAXI hypothesis. Trends in Genetics, 19, 243-247.
46. Xu, Q., Zhang, Y., Sun, D. X., Wang, Y. C., Tang, S. Q., & Zhao, M. (2011). Analysis of DNA methylation in different chicken tissues with MSAP. Yi Chuan, 33, 620-626.
47. Yamaguchi, S., Kurimoto, K., Yabuta, Y., Sasaki, H., Nakatsuji, N., Saitou, M., et al. (2009). Conditional knockdown of nanog induces apoptotic cell death in mouse migrating primordial germ cells. Development, 136, 4011-4020.
48. Yamazaki, Y., Low, E. W., Marikawa, Y., Iwahashi, K., Bartolomei, M. S., McCarrey, J. R., et al. (2005). Adult mice cloned from migrating primordial germ cells. Proceedings of the National Academy Science USA, 102, 11361-11366.
49. Yokomine, T., Shirohzu, H., Purbowasito, W., Toyoda, A., Iwama, H., Ikeo, K., et al. (2005). Structural and functional analysis of a 0.5-Mb chicken region orthologous to the imprinted mammalian Ascl2/Mash2-lgf2-H19 region. Genome Research, 15, 154-165.