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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 689, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2020.108444
Keywords
Embryonic lethal; Phosphatidylethanolamine; Phospholipid transferase; Selenium
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- NIH [R01AI147496, P30GM131944]
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Selenoprotein I (SELENOI) is an ethanolamine phosphotransferase that catalyzes the third reaction of the Kennedy pathway for the synthesis of phosphatidylethanolamine. Since the role of SELENOI in murine embryogenesis has not been investigated, SELENOI-/+ mating pairs were used to generate global KO offspring. Of 323 weanling pups, no homozygous KO genotypes were found. E6.5-E18.5 embryos (165 total) were genotyped, and only two E18.5 KO embryos were detected with no discernable anatomical defects. To screen embryos prior to uterine implantation that occurs similar to E6, blastocyst embryos (E3.5-E4.4) were flushed from uteruses of pregnant females and analyzed for morphology and genotype. KO embryos were detected in 5 of 6 pregnant females, and 7 of the 32 genotyped embryos were found to be SELENOI KO that exhibited no overt pathological features. Overall, these results demonstrate that, except for rare cases (2/490 = 0.4%), global SELENOI deletion leads to early embryonic lethality.
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