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Sci Rep ; 13(1): 9967, 2023 06 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37339990

RESUMO

Xenopus egg extract is a powerful material to modify cultured cells fate and to induce cellular reprogramming in mammals. In this study, the response of goldfish fin cells to in vitro exposure to Xenopus egg extract, and subsequent culture, was studied using a cDNA microarray approach, gene ontology and KEGG pathways analyses, and qPCR validation. We observed that several actors of the TGFß and Wnt/ß-catenin signaling pathways, as well as some mesenchymal markers, were inhibited in treated cells, while several epithelial markers were upregulated. This was associated with morphological changes of the cells in culture, suggesting that egg extract drove cultured fin cells towards a mesenchymal-epithelial transition. This indicates that Xenopus egg extract treatment relieved some barriers of somatic reprogramming in fish cells. However, the lack of re-expression of pou2 and nanog pluripotency markers, the absence of DNA methylation remodeling of their promoter region, and the strong decrease in de novo lipid biosynthesis metabolism, indicate that reprogramming was only partial. The observed changes may render these treated cells more suitable for studies on in vivo reprogramming after somatic cell nuclear transfer.


Assuntos
Reprogramação Celular , Fator de Crescimento Transformador beta , Animais , Xenopus laevis/metabolismo , Fator de Crescimento Transformador beta/metabolismo , Diferenciação Celular/genética , Células Cultivadas , Transição Epitelial-Mesenquimal/genética , Mamíferos
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Transgenic Res ; 18(5): 815-27, 2009 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19404763

RESUMO

Combining two existing protocols of trangenesis, namely the REMI and the I-SceI meganuclease methods, we generated Xenopus leavis expressing a transgene under the control of a promoter that presented a restricted pattern of activity and a low level of expression. This was realized by co-incubating sperm nuclei, the I-SceI enzyme and the transgene prior to transplantation into unfertilized eggs. The addition of the woodchuck hepatitis virus posttranscriptional regulatory element in our constructs further enhanced the expression of the transgene without affecting the tissue-specificity of the promoter activity. Using this combination of methods we produced high rates of fully transgenic animals that stably transmitted the transgene to the next generations with a transmission rate of 50% indicating a single integration event.


Assuntos
Transgenes , Xenopus laevis/genética , Animais , Animais Geneticamente Modificados , Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos/genética , Vírus da Hepatite B da Marmota/genética , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/genética , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas
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Sci Rep ; 9(1): 2861, 2019 02 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30814557

RESUMO

Reprogramming of cultured cells using Xenopus egg extract involves controlling four major steps: plasma membrane permeabilization, egg factors import into the nucleus, membrane resealing, and cell proliferation. Using propidium iodide to assess plasma membrane permeability, we established that 90% of the cultured fin cells were permeabilized by digitonin without any cell losses. We showed that egg extract at metaphase II stage was essential to maintain nuclear import function in the permeabilized cells, as assessed with a fusion GFP protein carrying the nuclear import signal NLS. Moreover, the Xenopus-egg-specific Lamin B3 was detected in 87% of the cell nuclei, suggesting that other egg extract reprogramming factors of similar size could successfully enter the nucleus. Lamin B3 labelling was maintained in most cells recovered 24 h after membrane resealing with calcium, and cells successfully resumed cell cycle in culture. In contrast, permeabilized cells that were not treated with egg extract failed to proliferate in culture and died, implying that egg extract provided factor essential to the survival of those cells. To conclude, fish fin cells were successfully primed for treatment with reprogramming factors, and egg extract was shown to play a major role in their survival and recovery after permeabilization.


Assuntos
Reprogramação Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Misturas Complexas/farmacologia , Carpa Dourada/metabolismo , Óvulo/química , Animais , Técnicas de Cultura de Células , Células Cultivadas , Misturas Complexas/química , Xenopus laevis
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Zebrafish ; 13 Suppl 1: S56-65, 2016 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27192449

RESUMO

Health monitoring is a crucial aspect of the management of any research animal house. RESAMA is a network strong of 60 academic and private partners acting in France since the end of 2012. The network aims to increase awareness of animal caretakers and researchers on health management issues in facilities holding aquatic model species (zebrafish, Xenopus, medaka, Mexican tetra). To do so, each partner research facility will be visited at least once. The visiting team is composed at least of one veterinarian and one zootechnician specialized in aquatic species. The visit results in a health-monitoring assessment of the facility, which includes a sampling for histo-pathological, bacteriological, and molecular pathogen detection. During the visit, rearing practices are also reviewed through an interview of animal caretakers. However, the present report essentially focuses on the health-monitoring aspect. The ultimate goal of the project is to provide a network-wide picture of health issues in aquatic facilities. Performed in parallel, the rearing practice assessment will ultimately help to establish rational relationship between handling practices and animal health in aquatic facilities. The study is still in progress. Here, we describe the results to be drawn from an analysis of the 23 facilities that had been visited so far. We sampled 720 fish and 127 amphibians and performed a little less than 1400 individual tests.


Assuntos
Criação de Animais Domésticos/métodos , Aquicultura/métodos , Monitoramento Ambiental/métodos , Modelos Animais , Peixe-Zebra , Bem-Estar do Animal , Animais , França
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FEBS Lett ; 554(3): 330-6, 2003 Nov 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14623089

RESUMO

The amphibian Xenopus tropicalis appears an increasingly appealing model for both genetic and developmental biology studies, compared to the related species Xenopus laevis. Study of the glycosylation pattern of its secreted glycoproteins revealed that this species synthesizes large amounts of Lewis(a) epitope, whereas this motif has previously only been identified in animals within the primate lineage. The use of (1)H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy enabled us to resolve the sequence of three Lewis(a)-bearing O-linked glycans associated with oviducal secretions, out of which one contained the novel sequence Gal(beta 1-3)GlcNAc(beta 1-6)GalNAc-ol. These structural data suggested the emergence of an alpha 1,4-fucosyltransferase activity in animals outside the primate lineage. On this basis, the screening of a X. tropicalis GenBank database with human Lewis-fucosyltransferase sequences revealed the occurrence of a putative fucosyltransferase gene that presented an unusual acceptor motif.


Assuntos
Antígenos do Grupo Sanguíneo de Lewis/química , Antígenos do Grupo Sanguíneo de Lewis/isolamento & purificação , Mucinas/química , Oviductos/química , Xenopus/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Anticorpos Monoclonais/química , Anticorpos Monoclonais/imunologia , Configuração de Carboidratos , Sequência de Carboidratos , Epitopos/química , Epitopos/metabolismo , Feminino , Fucosiltransferases/genética , Glicoproteínas/química , Glicoproteínas/imunologia , Glicoproteínas/isolamento & purificação , Glicosilação , Antígenos do Grupo Sanguíneo de Lewis/imunologia , Espectroscopia de Ressonância Magnética , Modelos Animais , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Mucinas/imunologia , Mucinas/metabolismo , Oligossacarídeos/química , Oligossacarídeos/imunologia , Oligossacarídeos/metabolismo , Oviductos/metabolismo , Xenopus/imunologia
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