ArticleNature methods2025
De novo assembly and delivery of synthetic megabase-scale human DNA into mouse early embryos.
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- Advances in large DNA fragment assembly for microbial cell factory engineering.Quantitative biology (Beijing, China) · 2026Review
- Synthetic Chromosomes in Yeast: A Platform for Understanding and Programming Eukaryotic Life.Microbial biotechnology · 2026Review
- Technologies for engineering repetitive DNA.Quantitative biology (Beijing, China) · 2026Review
- The emerging dialogue between synthetic genomics and clinical research.Clinical and translational medicine · 2026Article
- One Yeast, Sixteen Synthetic Chromosomes, Infinite Possibilities.Yeast (Chichester, England) · 2026Review
- Yeast nuclei-mediated precise delivery of synthetic megabase-scale human DNA into mammalian embryos.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- Trigger-day hCG effects on DNA methylation and neurodevelopment in ART offspring.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Automated linear DNA assembly of A. thaliana's chloroplast and mitochondrial genome.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Synthetic rewriting technologies in mammalian cells.Nature communications · 2026Review
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Abstract
Epigenetic modifications on natural chromosomes are inherited and maintained in a default state, making it challenging to remove intrinsic marks to study the fundamental principles of their establishment and further influence on transcriptional regulation. In this study, we developed SynNICE, a method for assembling and delivering intact, naive, synthetic megabase (Mb)-scale human DNA into early mouse embryos, to study de novo epigenetic regulation. By assembling and delivering a 1.14-Mb human AZFa (hAZFa) locus, we observed the spontaneous incorporation of murine histones and the establishment of DNA methylation at the one-cell stage. Notably, DNA methylation from scratch strongly enriches at repeat sequences without H3K9me3 reinforcement. Furthermore, the transcription of hAZFa initiated at the four-cell stage is regulated by newly established DNA methylation. This method provides a unique platform for exploring de novo epigenomic regulation mechanisms in higher animals.
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