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After fertilization, male and female gametes undergo extensive reprogramming to restore totipotency. Both DNA methylation and histone modification are important epigenetic reprogramming events. Previous studies have reported that the paternal pronucleus of the human zygote is actively demethylated to some extent, while the maternal pronucleus remains methylated. However, to our knowledge, the relationship between DNA methylation and H3K9 dimethylation patterns in human embryos has not been reported. In this study, we examined the dynamic DNA methylation and H3K9 dimethylation patterns in triploid and bipronucleated zygotes and early developing embryos. We sought to gain further insight into the relationship between DNA methylation and H3K9 dimethylation and to investigate whether removing a pronucleus from triploid zygotes affects DNA methylation and H3K9 dimethylation patterns. We found that active DNA demethylation of the two male pronuclei occurred in tripronuclear human zygotes while the female pronucleus remained methylated at 20 h post-insemination. In tripronuclear human zygotes, H3K9 was hypomethylated in the two paternal pronuclei relative to the maternal pronucleus. Our data show that there are no differences in the DNA methylation and H3K9 dimethylation patterns between tripronuclear and corrected bipronuclear human zygotes. However, correction of 3PN human zygotes dispermic in origin could not improve subsequent embryo development. In conclusion, DNA methylation and H3K9 dimethylation patterns are well correlated in tripronuclear zygotes and embryos; early embryo development is not affected by removal of a male pronucleus. Our results imply that limited developmental potential of either 3PN or corrected 2PN embryos may not be caused by the abnormalities in DNA methylation or H3K9 dimethylation modification.

Similar DNA Methylation and Histone H3 Lysine 9 Dimethylation Patterns in Tripronuclear and Corrected Bipronuclear Human Zygotes