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3D genome extracted from ‘freeze-dried’ woolly mammoth

July 14, 2024
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3D genome extracted from ‘freeze-dried’ woolly mammoth
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A 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin was excavated intact from permafrost in Siberia, as seen in this handout photo taken on September 5, 2018, courtesy of Stockholm University

A 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin was excavated intact from permafrost in Siberia, as seen in this handout photo taken on September 5, 2018, courtesy of Stockholm University.

About 52,000 years ago, the skinned hide of a Siberian woolly mammoth was exposed to conditions so frigid that it spontaneously freeze-dried, locking its DNA fragments into place.

In a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists reported using this remarkable sample to reconstruct the animal’s genome in three dimensions—a breakthrough that could yield important new insights about extinct species and even boost efforts to bring them back to life.

Until now, ancient DNA specimens have only been found in short, scrambled fragments, severely limiting the amount of information researchers could extract.

“Now we show that, at least under some circumstances, it’s not just those snippets of that DNA that survive, but they survive in such a way that preserves the original arrangement,” co-author Olga Dudchenko, a geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine, told AFP.

Understanding the 3D architecture of an organism’s genome —- the complete set of its DNA—is crucial for identifying which genes are active in specific tissues, revealing why brain cells think, heart cells beat, and immune cells fight disease.

It was long assumed that due to the rapid degradation of very small particles, such information would inevitably be lost to history.

But around a decade ago, an international team of scientists set out to find an ancient sample where the 3D organization of the DNA remained intact such that it could be fully reconstructed with a new analytical technique.

Their quest led them to an exceptionally well-preserved woolly mammoth sample, excavated in northeastern Siberia in 2018.

Whether the hirsute pachyderm -— a female with a distinctive mullet-style hairdo—died naturally or was killed by humans is unknown. However, it does appear that early humans skinned her, leaving tissue around the head, neck, and left ear intact, according to Dudchenko.

Woolly mammoth jerky

The team hypothesizes that the skin cooled and dehydrated, transitioning into a glasslike state that trapped its molecules in place and preserved the shape of its chromosomes, or the threadlike structures that hold DNA strands.

Essentially, they had discovered a piece of freeze-dried woolly mammoth jerky.

To test the resilience of jerky, they subjected lab-made and store-bought beef jerky pieces to a series of tests simulating the kind of damage ancient samples might encounter over millennia.

“We fired a shotgun at it. We ran over it with a car. We had a former starting pitcher for the Houston Astros throw a fastball at it,” said Cynthia Perez Estrada, co-author of the study and a researcher at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University.

The jerky would break into tiny bits, shattering as dramatically as window glass at times. “But at the nano-scale, the chromosomes were intact, unchanged,” said Perez Estrada in a statement.

One significant discovery from their research established that mammoths had 28 pairs of chromosomes. The finding aligns with the 28 chromosomal pairs found in elephants, the closest living relatives of mammoths, “but before this study, it was anybody’s guess,” said Dudchenko.

‘Fossil chromosomes’

The team’s analysis also identified several “candidate” genes which might be responsible for what made woolly mammoths woolly—including a gene responsible for long, thick eyelashes, and another associated with sparse sweat glands.

Erez Lieberman Aiden of Baylor College of Medicine, who co-led the team, told AFP that while the researchers’ goal was not to bring mammoths back, the information they gleaned could be used for such efforts.

A Japanese team is looking at cloning woolly mammoths, while a group in the United States is aiming to create genetically “mammothized” elephants.

Within the skin, “96 percent of genes are basically in the same activity state as an elephant,” said Aiden, meaning that scientists working on de-extinction could now focus on the remaining four percent.

The team now hopes that the benefit of their study will extend far beyond their special sample and open a new chapter in paleogenetics if other such “fossil chromosomes” can be found.

The Arctic permafrost remains a promising place to look, and it is also possible that mummification from ancient civilizations in warmer climates could preserve genomic structures too, according to Dudchenko.

More information:
Three-dimensional genome architecture persists in a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth skin sample, Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.06.002. www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00642-1

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