Toward Molecular Medicine in Female Infertility Management: Editorial to the Special Issue “Molecular Mechanisms of Human Oogenesis and Early Embryogenesis”

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Female infertility is the main reason for involuntary childlessness nowadays [...]

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Human gene expression first occurs between the four- and eight-cell stages of preimplantation development.

P Braude, V Bolton, S. Moore (1988)

The earliest stages of development in most animals, including the few mammalian species that have been investigated, are regulated by maternally inherited information. Dependence on expression of the embryonic genome cannot be detected until the mid two-cell stage in the mouse, the four-cell stage in the pig (J. Osborn & C. Polge, personal communication), and the eight-cell stage in the sheep. Information about the timing of activation of the embryonic genome in the human is of relevance not only to the therapeutic practice of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF), but more importantly for the successful development of techniques for the preimplantation diagnosis of certain inherited genetic diseases. We describe here changes in the pattern of polypeptides synthesized during the pre-implantation stages of human development, and demonstrate that some of the major qualitative changes which occur between the four- and eight-cell stages are dependent on transcription. In addition, it appears that cleavage is not sensitive to transcriptional inhibition until after the four-cell stage.

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The role of 3D genome organization in development and cell differentiation

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DNA Methylation Reprogramming during Mammalian Development

Yang Zeng, Taiping Chen (2019)

DNA methylation (5-methylcytosine, 5mC) is a major form of DNA modification in the mammalian genome that plays critical roles in chromatin structure and gene expression. In general, DNA methylation is stably maintained in somatic tissues. However, DNA methylation patterns and levels show dynamic changes during development. Specifically, the genome undergoes two waves of global demethylation and remethylation for the purpose of producing the next generation. The first wave occurs in the germline, initiated with the erasure of global methylation in primordial germ cells (PGCs) and completed with the establishment of sex-specific methylation patterns during later stages of germ cell development. The second wave occurs after fertilization, including the erasure of most methylation marks inherited from the gametes and the subsequent establishment of the embryonic methylation pattern. The two waves of DNA methylation reprogramming involve both distinct and shared mechanisms. In this review article, we provide an overview of the key reprogramming events, focusing on the important players in these processes, including DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) and ten-eleven translocation (TET) family of 5mC dioxygenases.