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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 110, Issue 7 889-897, Copyright © 1997 by Company of Biologists

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Genome replication in early mouse embryos follows a defined temporal and spatial order

J Ferreira and M Carmo-Fonseca
Institute of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal.

The spatial and temporal organisation of replication sites during early mouse embryogenesis was analysed using high resolution confocal and video fluorescence microscopy. The results show that distinct replication patterns occur in the transcriptionally inactive pronuclei of 1-cell embryos as well as in the transcriptionally active nuclei from 2- and 16/32-cell embryos. This indicates that specific chromatin regions are replicated at different times during S-phase and provides the first evidence that mechanisms controlling the temporal and spatial replication of DNA are already present in the haploid pronuclei of the mammalian zygote. Furthermore the data demonstrate that the male and female pronuclei in one-cell embryos replicate their genomes asynchronously. Finally, we observe changes in the dynamics of embryonic genome replication during early development which correlate with gross chromatin structure transitions detected at the electron microscope level. Taken together these results indicate that DNA synthesis in the mouse zygote follows a defined four-dimensional order which may evolve during development and differentiation.
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