Xiang Jinzhu, Wang Hanning, Shi Bingbo, Li Jiajun, Liu Dong, Wang Kaipeng, Wang Zhuangfei, Min Qiankun, Zhao Chengchen, Pei Duanqing
Laboratory of Cell Fate Control, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Cell Discov. 2024 Jul 2;10(1):72. doi: 10.1038/s41421-024-00693-w.
Pluripotent stem cells have the potential to generate embryo models that can recapitulate developmental processes in vitro. Large animals such as pigs may also benefit from stem-cell-based embryo models for improving breeding. Here, we report the generation of blastoids from porcine embryonic stem cells (pESCs). We first develop a culture medium 4FIXY to derive pESCs. We develop a 3D two-step differentiation strategy to generate porcine blastoids from the pESCs. The resulting blastoids exhibit similar morphology, size, cell lineage composition, and single-cell transcriptome characteristics to blastocysts. These porcine blastoids survive and expand for more than two weeks in vitro under two different culture conditions. Large animal blastoids such as those derived from pESCs may enable in vitro modeling of early embryogenesis and improve livestock species' breeding practices.
多能干细胞有潜力生成能够在体外重现发育过程的胚胎模型。猪等大型动物也可能受益于基于干细胞的胚胎模型来改善育种。在此,我们报告了从猪胚胎干细胞(pESCs)生成囊胚样结构。我们首先开发了一种培养基4FIXY来培养pESCs。我们制定了一种三维两步分化策略,从pESCs生成猪囊胚样结构。所得到的囊胚样结构在形态、大小、细胞谱系组成和单细胞转录组特征方面与囊胚相似。这些猪囊胚样结构在两种不同培养条件下可在体外存活并扩展超过两周。源自pESCs的大型动物囊胚样结构可能有助于早期胚胎发育的体外建模,并改善家畜物种的育种实践。