Oocyte-like cells induced from mouse spermatogonial stem cells

Cell & Bioscience

Lixin Feng³  Zhuo Yu¹  Martin Dym³  Lianghong Ma²  Di Zhang¹  Ping Ji¹  Jinping Cao⁴  Lu Wang¹ 

[1] Institute of Medical Sciences, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, 280 Chongqing S. Road, Shanghai, 200025, China;Department of Urology, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China;Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, 20057, USA;Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

关键词: Spermatogonial stem cells;    Sex reversal;    PGC;    Oocyte;    Gametogenesis;   

Others  :  793272
DOI  :  10.1186/2045-3701-2-27

 received in 2012-07-13, accepted in 2012-07-16,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

During normal development primordial germ cells (PGCs) derived from the epiblast are the precursors of spermatogonia and oogonia. In culture, PGCs can be induced to dedifferentiate to pluripotent embryonic germ (EG) cells in the presence of various growth factors. Several recent studies have now demonstrated that spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) can also revert back to pluripotency as embryonic stem (ES)-like cells under certain culture conditions. However, the potential dedifferentiation of SSCs into PGCs or the potential generation of oocytes from SSCs has not been demonstrated before.

Results

We report that mouse male SSCs can be converted into oocyte-like cells in culture. These SSCs-derived oocytes (SSC-Oocs) were similar in size to normal mouse mature oocytes. They expressed oocyte-specific markers and gave rise to embryos through parthenogenesis. Interestingly, the Y- and X-linked testis-specific genes in these SSC-Oocs were significantly down-regulated or turned off, while oocyte-specific X-linked genes were activated. The gene expression profile appeared to switch to that of the oocyte across the X chromosome. Furthermore, these oocyte-like cells lost paternal imprinting but acquired maternal imprinting.

Conclusions

Our data demonstrate that SSCs might maintain the potential to be reprogrammed into oocytes with corresponding epigenetic reversals. This study provides not only further evidence for the remarkable plasticity of SSCs but also a potential system for dissecting molecular and epigenetic regulations in germ cell fate determination and imprinting establishment during gametogenesis.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Wang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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