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Effect of Different Concentrations of Scriptaid on the Development and Histone Acetylation Modification of Buffalo Fetal Fibroblasts

RUAN Qiu-yan, SUN Hong-liang, MENG Zhen-miao, LIU Xiao-lin, DU Feng-jiao, SHI De-shun,LU Feng-hua   

  1. (Guangxi Key Laboratory of Subtropical Bio-resource Conservation and Utilization, Nanning 530005,China)

  • Received:2013-11-04 Online:2014-05-20 Published:2014-06-25

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of various concentrations of histone deacetylase inhibitor (Scriptaid) on the growth characteristics, cytotoxicity and the level of histone H3K18 acetylation (AcH3K18) of buffalo fetal fibroblasts (BFF), so that to find a novel way to improve the efficiency of buffalo somatic cell nuclear transfer in future. The experiment investigated the effect of various concentrations (0, 250, 500, 750 nmol/L) of Scriptaid on the growth characteristics, cell survival rate through trypan blue staining and the level of histone H3K18 acetylation (AcH3K18) by immunohistochemistry detection. The results showed that there was no effect on the biology characteristics of the BFF treated with Scriptaid, the growth curve was similar with that of the control group, showing “S” distribution, moreover, there was no significant difference on cell survival rate between Scriptaid-treated group and the control group (P>0.05). In addition, immunohistochemistry detection found that the relative fluorescent intensity of AcH3K18 of BFF in the Scriptaid-treated group was significantly higher than that of the non-treated group (P<0.05), and the levels of AcH3K18 of BFF in the 500 and 750 nmol/L groups were significantly improved compared with that of the 250 nmol/L group (P<0.05), but there was no significant difference between 500 and 750 nmol/L treatment groups (P>0.05). These results indicated that an optimum concentration of Scriptaid had little effect on the cell morphology and cell survival rate of BFF, and could significantly improve the levels of histone acetylation.

Key words:

Scriptaid; buffalo fetal fibroblasts; growth characteristic; histone acetylation