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Interspecies chimerism with mammalian pluripotent stem cells

Publicado en: Cell

 

Interspecies blastocyst complementation enables organ-specific enrichment of xenogenic pluripotent stem cell (PSC) derivatives. Here, we establish a versatile blastocyst complementation platform based on CRISPR-Cas9-mediated zygote genome editing and show enrichment of rat PSC-derivatives in several tissues of gene-edited organogenesis-disabled mice. Besides gaining insights into species evolution, embryogenesis, and human disease, interspecies blastocyst complementation might allow human organ generation in animals whose organ size, anatomy, and physiology are closer to humans. To date, however, whether human PSCs (hPSCs) can contribute to chimera formation in non-rodent species remains unknown. We systematically evaluate the chimeric competency of several types of hPSCs using a more diversified clade of mammals, the ungulates. We find that naïve hPSCs robustly engraft in both pig and cattle pre-implantation blastocysts but show limited contribution to post-implantation pig embryos. Instead, an intermediate hPSC type exhibits higher degree of chimerism and is able to generate differentiated progenies in post-implantation pig embryos.

 

Referencia:

J.Wu,A.Platero-Luengo, M.Sakurai, A. Sugawara, M. A. Gil, T. Yamauchi, K.Suzuki, Y.S. BGoglioti, C. Cuello,M. Morales, D. Okumura, J. Luo, M. Vilariño, I.Parrillo, D. A.Soto, C.A. Martinez, T. Hishida, S. Sanchez-Bautista, M. llanos Martinez, H. Wang, A. Nohalez, E. Aizawa, P. Martinez-Redondo, A. Ocampo, P. Reddy, J. Roca, E. A.Maga, C. Rodriguez Esteban,  W. Travis, E. Nuñez Delicado, J. Lajara, I.Guillén, P. Guillén, J. Campistol, E. A. Martinez, P. J. Ross an J.C. Izpisúa “Interspecies chimerism with mammalian pluripotent stem cells” Cell 168, 1-14 January 26, 2017.

 

Link: http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(16)31752-4?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867416317524%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

 

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