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First published online 7 July 2004
doi: 10.1242/dev.01241


Development 131, 3727-3735 (2004)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2004


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Selective loss of imprinting in the placenta following preimplantation development in culture

Mellissa R. W. Mann1, Susan S. Lee1, Adam S. Doherty1,2, Raluca I. Verona1, Leisha D. Nolen1, Richard M. Schultz2 and Marisa S. Bartolomei1,*

1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
2 Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

* Author for correspondence (e-mail: bartolom{at}mail.med.upenn.edu)

Accepted 26 April 2004

Preimplantation development is a period of dynamic epigenetic change that begins with remodeling of egg and sperm genomes, and ends with implantation. During this time, parental-specific imprinting marks are maintained to direct appropriate imprinted gene expression. We previously demonstrated that H19 imprinting could be lost during preimplantation development under certain culture conditions. To define the lability of genomic imprints during this dynamic period and to determine whether loss of imprinting continues at later stages of development, imprinted gene expression and methylation were examined after in vitro preimplantation culture. Following culture in Whitten's medium, the normally silent paternal H19 allele was aberrantly expressed and undermethylated. However, only a subset of individual cultured blastocysts (~65%) exhibited biallelic expression, while others maintained imprinted H19 expression. Loss of H19 imprinting persisted in mid-gestation conceptuses. Placental tissues displayed activation of the normally silent allele for H19, Ascl2, Snrpn, Peg3 and Xist while in the embryo proper imprinted expression for the most part was preserved. Loss of imprinted expression was associated with a decrease in methylation at the H19 and Snrpn imprinting control regions. These results indicate that tissues of trophectoderm origin are unable to restore genomic imprints and suggest that mechanisms that safeguard imprinting might be more robust in the embryo than in the placenta.

Key words: Imprinting, DNA methylation, Placenta, H19, Snrpn, Peg3, Ascl2, Xist, Mouse


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