Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Blastocyst complementation using Prdm14-deficient rats enables efficient germline transmission and generation of functional mouse spermatids in rats

  • Toshihiro Kobayashi,
  • Teppei Goto,
  • Mami Oikawa,
  • Makoto Sanbo,
  • Fumika Yoshida,
  • Reiko Terada,
  • Naoko Niizeki,
  • Naoyo Kajitani,
  • Kanako Kazuki,
  • Yasuhiro Kazuki,
  • Shinichi Hochi,
  • Hiromitsu Nakauchi,
  • M. Azim Surani,
  • Masumi Hirabayashi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21557-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The uptake of donor pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) in hosts of different species and subsequent germline transmission is very inefficient. Here, the authors show, using Prdm14 gene depleted rat host blastocysts to remove functional sperm, that germline transmission from donor rat or mouse PSCs is possible.