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Sperm, but not oocyte, DNA methylome is inherited by zebrafish early embryos

  • Lan Jiang
  • , Jing Zhang
  • , Jing Jing Wang
  • , Lu Wang
  • , Li Zhang
  • , Guoqiang Li
  • , Xiaodan Yang
  • , Xin Ma
  • , Xin Sun
  • , Jun Cai
  • , Jun Zhang
  • , Xingxu Huang
  • , Miao Yu
  • , Xuegeng Wang
  • , Feng Liu
  • , Chung I. Wu
  • , Chuan He
  • , Bo Zhang
  • , Weimin Ci*
  • , Jiang Liu
  • *此作品的通讯作者
  • CAS - Beijing Institute of Genomics
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • CAS - Institute of Zoology
  • Nanjing University
  • The University of Chicago
  • Peking University

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摘要

5-methylcytosine is a major epigenetic modification that is sometimes called "the fifth nucleotide." However, our knowledge of how offspring inherit the DNA methylome from parents is limited. We generated nine single-base resolution DNA methylomes, including zebrafish gametes and early embryos. The oocyte methylome is significantly hypomethylated compared to sperm. Strikingly, the paternal DNA methylation pattern is maintained throughout early embryogenesis. The maternal DNA methylation pattern is maintained until the 16-cell stage. Then, the oocyte methylome is gradually discarded through cell division and is progressively reprogrammed to a pattern similar to that of the sperm methylome. The passive demethylation rate and the de novo methylation rate are similar in the maternal DNA. By the midblastula stage, the embryo's methylome is virtually identical to the sperm methylome. Moreover, inheritance of the sperm methylome facilitates the epigenetic regulation of embryogenesis. Therefore, besides DNA sequences, sperm DNA methylome is also inherited in zebrafish early embryos.

源语言英语
页(从-至)773-784
页数12
期刊Cell
153
4
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 9 5月 2013
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