PMID- 25367204 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20151130 LR - 20211021 IS - 1573-9368 (Electronic) IS - 0962-8819 (Linking) VI - 24 IP - 2 DP - 2015 Apr TI - Effects of transgenic sterilization constructs and their repressor compounds on hatch, developmental rate and early survival of electroporated channel catfish embryos and fry. PG - 333-52 LID - 10.1007/s11248-014-9846-4 [doi] AB - Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) embryos were electroporated with sterilization constructs targeting primordial germ cell proteins or with buffer. Some embryos then were treated with repressor compounds, cadmium chloride, copper sulfate, sodium chloride or doxycycline, to prevent expression of the transgene constructs. Promoters included channel catfish nanos and vasa, salmon transferrin (TF), modified yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae copper transport protein (MCTR) and zebrafish racemase (RM). Knock-down systems were the Tet-off (nanos and vasa constructs), MCTR, RM and TF systems. Knock-down genes included shRNAi targeting 5' nanos (N1), 3' nanos (N2) or dead end (DND), or double-stranded nanos RNA (dsRNA) for overexpression of nanos mRNA. These constructs previously were demonstrated to knock down nanos, vasa and dead end, with the repressors having variable success. Exogenous DNA affected percentage hatch (% hatch), as all 14 constructs, except for the TF dsRNA, TF N1 (T), RM DND (C), vasa DND (C), vasa N1 (C) and vasa N2 (C), had lower % hatch than the control electroporated with buffer. The MCTR and RM DND (T) constructs resulted in delayed hatch, and the vasa and nanos constructs had minimal effects on time of hatch (P < 0.05). Cadmium chloride appeared to counteract the slow development caused by the TF constructs in two TF treatments (P < 0.05). The 4 ppt sodium chloride treatment for the RM system decreased % hatch (P < 0.05) and slowed development. In the case of nanos constructs, doxycycline greatly delayed hatch (P < 0.05). Adverse effects of the transgenes and repressors continued for several treatments for the first 6 days after hatch, but only in a few treatments during the next 10 days. Repressors and gene expression impacted the yield of putative transgenic channel catfish fry, and need to be considered and accounted for in the hatchery phase of producing transgenically sterilized catfish fry and their fertile counterparts. This fry output should be considered to ensure that sufficient numbers of transgenic fish are produced for future applications and for defining repressor systems that are the most successful. FAU - Su, Baofeng AU - Su B AD - School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849, USA, subfeng@auburn.edu. FAU - Shang, Mei AU - Shang M FAU - Li, Chao AU - Li C FAU - Perera, Dayan A AU - Perera DA FAU - Pinkert, Carl A AU - Pinkert CA FAU - Irwin, Michael H AU - Irwin MH FAU - Peatman, Eric AU - Peatman E FAU - Grewe, Peter AU - Grewe P FAU - Patil, Jawahar G AU - Patil JG FAU - Dunham, Rex A AU - Dunham RA LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. DEP - 20141104 PL - Netherlands TA - Transgenic Res JT - Transgenic research JID - 9209120 RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - EC 5.1.- (Racemases and Epimerases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Animals, Genetically Modified MH - Catfishes/*genetics/growth & development MH - Embryo, Nonmammalian MH - Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental MH - Germ Cells/drug effects/*growth & development MH - RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis MH - Racemases and Epimerases/administration & dosage MH - Reproduction/*genetics MH - *Transgenes MH - Zebrafish/genetics/metabolism EDAT- 2014/11/05 06:00 MHDA- 2015/12/15 06:00 CRDT- 2014/11/05 06:00 PHST- 2014/06/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/10/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/11/05 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/11/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/12/15 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s11248-014-9846-4 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Transgenic Res. 2015 Apr;24(2):333-52. doi: 10.1007/s11248-014-9846-4. Epub 2014 Nov 4.