Usefulness of a Non-invasive Reporter System for Monitoring Reprogramming State in Pig Cells: Results of a Cell Fusion Experiment

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  • OZAWA Akio
    Section of Gene Expression Regulation, Frontier Science Research Center, Kagoshima University
  • AKASAKA Eri
    Section of Gene Expression Regulation, Frontier Science Research Center, Kagoshima University
  • WATANABE Satoshi
    Animal Genome Research Unit, Division of Animal Science, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
  • YOSHIDA Mitsutoshi
    Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University
  • MIYOSHI Kazuchika
    Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University
  • SATO Masahiro
    Section of Gene Expression Regulation, Frontier Science Research Center, Kagoshima University

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Dedifferentiation of differentiated cells such as fibroblasts into pluripotent stem cells, so-called iPS cells, was first reported by Yamanaka et al., who successfully employed retroviral gene delivery of four stem-cell-specific transcription factors (Oct-3/4, Klf4, Sox2 and c-myc). Despite the mouse system in which an Oct-3/4 or Nanog promoter-based reporter system has already been established, there is no useful system in pigs for reporting the reprogramming state of gene-engineered cells. In this study, we constructed a pOEIN plasmid carrying a ca. 5.4-kb mouse Oct-3/4 promoter linked to the EGFP cDNA and neomycin expression unit and produced a porcine embryonic cell line stably incorporating it in the genome. Cell fusion with mouse embryonal carcinoma cell line F9 resulted in generation of colonies with distinct EGFP-derived fluorescence around 14 days after fusion. RT-PCR using these colonies also confirmed expression of endogenous porcine pluripotency-specific Oct-3/4, Sox2 and Stat3 mRNA. These findings suggest that mouse-derived components are sufficient to induce dedifferentiation of differentiated pig cells and also that reprogramming proceeds gradually. The present non-invasive reporter system will be useful to better define the reprogramming mechanism and/or to identify novel reprogramming molecules in the pig.<br>

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