Fertility and early embryonic development in a CD46-edited Gir heifer with reduced susceptibility to BVDV.

Autor:	Snider AP; US Meat Animal Research Center, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Clay Center, NE, 68933, USA., Workman AM; US Meat Animal Research Center, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Clay Center, NE, 68933, USA., Heaton MP; US Meat Animal Research Center, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Clay Center, NE, 68933, USA., Vander Ley BL; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Great Plains Veterinary Educational Center, Clay Center, Nebraska, 68933, USA., Krueger AC; US Meat Animal Research Center, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Clay Center, NE, 68933, USA., Sonstegard TS; Acceligen Inc., Eagan, MN, 55121, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Biology of reproduction [Biol Reprod] 2024 Nov 19. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 19.
DOI:	10.1093/biolre/ioae169
Abstrakt:	Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) infection during pregnancy is a significant contributor to reproductive failures in cattle. The bovine receptor for BVDV (CD46) was previously edited with a six amino acid substitution (G82QVLAL to A82LPTFS) and shown to have significantly reduced BVDV susceptibility in a Gir heifer calf. Since a role for CD46 has been proposed in mammalian fertilization, our objective was to assess the edited heifer's fertilization rates, early embryonic development, and germline transmission conformation of the edit. Cumulus oocyte complexes were collected from the edited heifer and unedited females, fertilized with semen from an unedited bull and cultured until the blastocyst stage. Ultrasound examinations and serum progesterone concentration were also monitored to confirm estrous cyclicity in the CD46-edited heifer. Estrous cyclicity was normal with visualization of a corpus luteum and elevated progesterone concentrations. Fertilization rates and blastocyst development were not different in oocytes from edited and unedited controls. Genome sequence analysis of blastocysts confirmed germline transmission of either edited allele from the heifer. Subsequently, the CD46-edited heifer was artificially inseminated with semen from an unedited Gir bull and fertility status was confirmed with a diagnosed conception at day 35 of gestation. Thus, a six amino acid substitution in CD46 did not negatively affect fertilization of edited oocytes or early embryonic development when fertilized with semen from an unedited bull. An edited bull is still needed to similarly evaluate reproductive function of sperm cells carrying this CD46 edit. (Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Society for the Study of Reproduction 2024.)
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