China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2020, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (9): 2866-2875.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2020.09.020

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Effect of Vitrification on Epigenetics of Mammalian MⅡ Oocytes

HAO Tong, WANG Jingjing, HAO Haisheng, DU Weihua, PANG Yunwei, ZHAO Shanjiang, ZOU Huiying, ZHANG Peipei, ZHU Huabin, ZHAO Xueming   

  1. Institute of Animal Embryo Engineering and Reproduction, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2020-03-13 Online:2020-09-20 Published:2020-09-16

Abstract: As a cell preservation method with simple operation and high success rate,vitrification has many advantages,and it is widely used in agriculture,medicine,biology and other fields.However,compared with fresh oocytes,oocytes after vitrification and freezing still have many problems,such as oocytes after vitrification and freezing have lower pregnancy rate and live birth rate than fresh oocytes,abnormal gene expression and so on.Epigenetic modification allows interaction between genes and the environment without changing the DNA sequence.In the process of in vitro embryo production,external environmental factors will affect the modification of apparent heritage.This article reviewed the effects of vitrification on DNA and whole-genome methylation,histone methylation and acetylation,phosphorylation and ubiquitination,genetic imprinting,and microRNA of mammalian MⅡ oocytes in terms of epigenetics,and the effect of changes in epigenetic modification after vitrified frozen MⅡ oocytes on gene expression during transcription.It provided a reference for revealing and regulating epigenetic modification events after vitrified frozen oocytes,and further improved the quality of vitrified frozen oocytes.

Key words: vitrification; MⅡ oocytes; epigenetic modification

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