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Lecture 32 &33 Transgenic sheep, goat and pig Transgenic sheep, goat The birth of Dolly was soon followed by that of a cloned transgenic sheep named Polly (Schnieke et al., 1997). The advantages of this method of adding genes are multiple. About two to five times fewer sheep are needed to generate transgenic sheep than by microinjection. The integrated gene may be examined in cells before nuclear transfer. Cells in which the foreign gene is rearranged or has too many copies may be discarded. The sex and, more generally, the genotype of the nuclear donors may be chosen. The founder animals are never mosaic for the transgene. Several animals having the same genotype, including the same transgene, can be generated simultaneously. Although cloning is a laborious technique, it offers some flexibility to the experimenters. The nuclear donor cells can be kept frozen and used at the most appropriate moment to generate cloned transgenic animals. Transgenic Sheep and Goats Until recently, the transgenes introduced into sheep inserted randomly in the genome and often worked poorly. However, in July 2000, success at inserting a transgene into a specific gene locus was reported. The gene was the human gene for alpha1antitrypsin, and two of the animals expressed large quantities of the human protein in their milk. This is how it was done. Sheep fibroblasts (connective tissue cells) growing in tissue culture were treated with a vector that contained these segments of DNA: 1. 2 regions homologous to the sheep COL1A1 gene. This gene encodes Type 1 collagen. (Its absence in humans causes the inherited disease osteogenesis imperfecta.) This locus was chosen because fibroblasts secrete large amounts of collagen and thus one would expect the gene to be easily accessible in the chromatin. 2. A neomycin-resistance gene to aid in isolating those cells that successfully incorporated the vector. The human gene encoding alpha1-antitrypsin. Some people inherit two non- or poorly-functioning genes for this protein. Its resulting low level or absence produces the disease Alpha1-Antitrypsin Deficiency (A1AD or Alpha1). The main symptoms are damage to the lungs (and sometimes to the liver). 3. Promoter sites from the beta-lactoglobulin gene. These promote hormone-driven gene expression in milk-producing cells. 4. Binding sites for ribosomes for efficient translation of the mRNAs. Successfully-transformed cells were then fused with enucleated sheep eggs [Link to description of the method] and implanted in the uterus of a ewe (female sheep). Several embryos survived until their birth, and two young lambs have now lived over a year. When treated with hormones, these two lambs secreted milk containing large amounts of alpha1-antitrypsin (650 µg/ml; 50 times higher than previous results using random insertion of the transgene). On June 18, 2003, the company doing this work abandoned it because of the great expense of building a facility for purifying the protein from sheep's milk. Purification is important because even when 99.9% pure, human patients can develop antibodies against the tiny amounts of sheep proteins that remain. However, another company, GTC Biotherapeutics, has persevered and in June of 2006 won preliminary approval to market a human protein, antithrombin, in Europe. Their protein — the first made in a transgenic animal to receive regulatory approval for human therapy — was secreted in the milk of transgenic goats. Transgenic Pigs Transgenic pigs have also been produced by fertilizing normal eggs with sperm cells that have incorporated foreign DNA. This procedure, called sperm-mediated gene transfer (SMGT) may someday be able to produce transgenic pigs that can serve as a source of transplanted organs for humans. Gene replacement was achieved in sheep (McCreath et al., 2000), mice (Rideout et al., 2000) and pigs (Lai et al., 2002; Butler, 2002). This method is very laborious and still poorly controlled. A recent study showed that homologous recombination of two genes could be obtained in sheep cells but that this was followed by the death of the newborn animals obtained by cloning (Denning et al., 2001). This failure may be attributed to the culture of the cells, which is required to select those in which the homologous recombination has occurred. The culture conditions modify the physiology of the cells, which, for unknown reasons, become less capable of generating living cloned animals. A better understanding of these phenomena is necessary before gene replacement in large animals can be considered as a truly viable method.