TY - JOUR
T1 - Haploidy in somatic cells is induced by mature oocytes in mice
AU - Lee, Yeonmi
AU - Trout, Aysha
AU - Marti-Gutierrez, Nuria
AU - Kang, Seoon
AU - Xie, Philip
AU - Mikhalchenko, Aleksei
AU - Kim, Bitnara
AU - Choi, Jiwan
AU - So, Seongjun
AU - Han, Jongsuk
AU - Xu, Jing
AU - Koski, Amy
AU - Ma, Hong
AU - Yoon, Junchul David
AU - Van Dyken, Crystal
AU - Darby, Hayley
AU - Liang, Dan
AU - Li, Ying
AU - Tippner-Hedges, Rebecca
AU - Xu, Fuhua
AU - Amato, Paula
AU - Palermo, Gianpiero D.
AU - Mitalipov, Shoukhrat
AU - Kang, Eunju
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Haploidy is naturally observed in gametes; however, attempts of experimentally inducing haploidy in somatic cells have not been successful. Here, we demonstrate that the replacement of meiotic spindles in mature metaphases II (MII) arrested oocytes with nuclei of somatic cells in the G0/G1 stage of cell cycle results in the formation of de novo spindles consisting of somatic homologous chromosomes comprising of single chromatids. Fertilization of such oocytes with sperm triggers the extrusion of one set of homologous chromosomes into the pseudo-polar body (PPB), resulting in a zygote with haploid somatic and sperm pronuclei (PN). Upon culture, 18% of somatic-sperm zygotes reach the blastocyst stage, and 16% of them possess heterozygous diploid genomes consisting of somatic haploid and sperm homologs across all chromosomes. We also generate embryonic stem cells and live offspring from somatic-sperm embryos. Our finding may offer an alternative strategy for generating oocytes carrying somatic genomes.
AB - Haploidy is naturally observed in gametes; however, attempts of experimentally inducing haploidy in somatic cells have not been successful. Here, we demonstrate that the replacement of meiotic spindles in mature metaphases II (MII) arrested oocytes with nuclei of somatic cells in the G0/G1 stage of cell cycle results in the formation of de novo spindles consisting of somatic homologous chromosomes comprising of single chromatids. Fertilization of such oocytes with sperm triggers the extrusion of one set of homologous chromosomes into the pseudo-polar body (PPB), resulting in a zygote with haploid somatic and sperm pronuclei (PN). Upon culture, 18% of somatic-sperm zygotes reach the blastocyst stage, and 16% of them possess heterozygous diploid genomes consisting of somatic haploid and sperm homologs across all chromosomes. We also generate embryonic stem cells and live offspring from somatic-sperm embryos. Our finding may offer an alternative strategy for generating oocytes carrying somatic genomes.
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U2 - 10.1038/s42003-022-03040-5
DO - 10.1038/s42003-022-03040-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 35079104
AN - SCOPUS:85123467190
SN - 2399-3642
VL - 5
JO - Communications Biology
JF - Communications Biology
IS - 1
M1 - 95
ER -