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Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts 02115.
Abstract
Preimplantation mouse embryos contain very high levels of DNA methyltransferase activity. We show here that the form of DNA methyltransferase (DNA MTase) in early embryos differs from the form found in other cells and tissues by a slightly higher mobility on gel electrophoresis. Levels of DNA MTase were found to be very high throughout preimplantation development even though levels of 5-methylcytosine (m5C) in nuclear DNA are known to undergo a substantial decline in the same period. Confocal laser scanning microscopy of mouse embryos stained with DNA MTase-specific antibodies showed striking developmentally regulated changes in the distribution of DNA MTase. From the oocyte stage to the four-cell-stage, most DNA MTase was concentrated in peripheral cytoplasm, and nuclei did not contain detectable DNA MTase. In four- and eight-cell embryos, DNA MTase was seen in cytoplasmic granules; and in eight-cell embryos, DNA MTase was also present in large amounts in nuclei. Nuclei of blastocysts stained only faintly, whereas the cytoplasmic granules remained prominent. Paradoxically, DNA MTase was found to be at its highest levels in nuclei at a developmental stage where levels of m5C in DNA are decreasing most rapidly. Changes in methylation patterns in preimplantation embryos are therefore proposed to be under the control of unidentified regulatory factors rather than DNA MTase itself; these regulatory factors could be members of the group that contains the products of the Ssm-1 and Imp-1 genes, which are involved in the regulation of genomic imprinting.
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