A gene expression estimator of intramuscular fat percentage for use in both cattle and sheep     

Bing Guo  Kritaya Kongsuwan  Paul L Greenwood  Guanghong Zhou  Wangang Zhang  Brian P Dalrymple 《畜牧与生物技术杂志(英文版)》2014,5(1):35

Background

The expression of genes encoding proteins involved in triacyglyceride and fatty acid synthesis and storage in cattle muscle are correlated with intramuscular fat (IMF)%. Are the same genes also correlated with IMF% in sheep muscle, and can the same set of genes be used to estimate IMF% in both species?

Results

The correlation between gene expression (microarray) and IMF% in the longissimus muscle (LM) of twenty sheep was calculated. An integrated analysis of this dataset with an equivalent cattle correlation dataset and a cattle differential expression dataset was undertaken. A total of 30 genes were identified to be strongly correlated with IMF% in both cattle and sheep. The overlap of genes was highly significant, 8 of the 13 genes in the TAG gene set and 8 of the 13 genes in the FA gene set were in the top 100 and 500 genes respectively most correlated with IMF% in sheep, P-value = 0. Of the 30 genes, CIDEA, THRSP, ACSM1, DGAT2 and FABP4 had the highest average rank in both species. Using the data from two small groups of Brahman cattle (control and Hormone growth promotant-treated [known to decrease IMF% in muscle]) and 22 animals in total, the utility of a direct measure and different estimators of IMF% (ultrasound and gene expression) to differentiate between the two groups were examined. Directly measured IMF% and IMF% estimated from ultrasound scanning could not discriminate between the two groups. However, using gene expression to estimate IMF% discriminated between the two groups. Increasing the number of genes used to estimate IMF% from one to five significantly increased the discrimination power; but increasing the number of genes to 15 resulted in little further improvement.

Conclusion

We have demonstrated the utility of a comparative approach to identify robust estimators of IMF% in the LM in cattle and sheep. We have also demonstrated a number of approaches (potentially applicable to much smaller groups of animals than conventional methods) to using gene expression to rank animals for IMF% within a single farm/treatment, or to estimate differences in IMF% between two farms/treatments.  相似文献   

Characterization of the DNA nucleotide sequences in the genome of red sea bream iridoviruses isolated in Korea     

Joon Bum Jeong  Lyu Jin Jun  Min Ho Yoo  Myong Sug Kim  Jack L. Komisar  Hyun Do Jeong   《Aquaculture (Amsterdam, Netherlands)》2003,220(1-4):119-133

The nucleotide sequences of DNA fragments amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from four different genomic regions of nine red sea bream iridoviruses (RSIVs) isolated from different species of fish, different areas and in different years in Korea were compared with the reported reference sequences. One isolate, RSIV Namhae, showed 100% homology to the reference sequences, while the other eight isolates, which appeared to contain identical nucleotide sequences, showed 96.6–98.9% homology with reference sequences depending upon the target regions of PCR gene amplification. However, differences in nucleotide sequences were not apparent between the RSIVs isolated in different locations, in different years or in different host species. We also cloned and sequenced the 3′ end flanking region (K1) of the DNA polymerase (DPOL) gene using the cassette ligation-mediated PCR method. This sequence was 4436-bp long and possessed two open reading frames (ORF-1 and ORF-2) oriented in opposite directions. The putative proteins encoded by these two ORFs could not be characterized by comparison with the proteins of other species in the data banks. The presence of the ribonucleotide reductase small subunit (RNRS) gene at the 3′ end of the K1 region allowed us to determine that these two genes, RNRS and DPOL, are separated 5508 bp and oriented in the same direction in the genome of RSIV. Moreover, it is of interest that a PstI-restriction fragment, of which the sequence but not the location within the RSIV genome had previously been reported, is located at nucleotide positions from 1096 to 2054, extending from within the ORF-1 region, spanning the intervening sequence between ORF-1 and ORF-2, and extending into the ORF-2 region. Various repeating sequences up to 86 bp were present at the 3′ ends of ORFs, especially within the nucleotide sequences at the 3′ terminus of ORF-2. No similarities were detected when the DNA sequences of the K1 region were compared to the DNA sequences of a repetitive element in the genome of other iridoviruses.  相似文献   

甘蔗SPS基因家族成员表达与糖分积累关系解析     

陈兰平  陈由强  方静平  宋喜梅  叶冰莹  陈如凯  张积森 《热带作物学报》2014,35(7):1354-1361

以甘蔗高糖品种福农95-1702和低糖品种ROC-5为材料,分析SPS I、Ⅱ、Ⅲ、Ⅳ、Ⅴ在高、低糖这两个品种的幼叶、第三功能叶和不同蔗茎的表达,测定甘蔗糖分积累早期、中期和后期的糖分含量。结果显示,在功能叶和茎第二节中,三个阶段SPS家族成员在高糖品种的含量整体趋势高于低糖品种,结合蔗糖积累特点分析表明其可能在蔗糖合成中扮演着重要的角色。与正三叶相反,在幼叶中,三个阶段SPS家族成员在高糖品种的表达量整体趋势低于低糖品种,表明其可能与嫩叶的生长等其他生理性状相关,在成熟茎中,随着蔗糖积累时间的增加,高糖品种中的优势表达基因减少,而低糖品种中的优势表达基因增加,这可能与低糖品种中、后期大量积累蔗糖相关。  相似文献   

玉米Mutator转座子结构特征和基因克隆的研究进展     

高志勇 《玉米科学》2014,22(3):24-28

Mutator（Mu）转座子是已发现的植物中转座活性最强的转座子,其较高的转座频率以及趋向于插入单拷贝功能基因转座的特性,使其成为构建玉米突变体库的一个主要方法。当前玉米B73品系基因组测序已经基本完成,利用反向遗传学方法,研究玉米基因的功能更为方便。文中简要介绍Mu转座子的结构特征以及Mu的分类,介绍3种克隆Mu转座子标签插入位点侧翼序列的技术,对Mu研究所存在的问题进行分析,展望Mu的应用。  相似文献   

节节麦pbf基因的克隆、序列分析及原核表达     

强琴琴  杨帆  陈其皎  高翔  杨华  张龙龙 《麦类作物学报》2014,34(6):727-734

醇溶蛋白盒结合因子(prolamin-box binding factor,PBF)通过调控籽粒蛋白的表达效率进而影响面粉的加工品质。为给深入研究小麦籽粒PBF对籽粒蛋白质表达调控的分子基础提供参考依据,进而为小麦面粉加工品质的改良提供候选基因资源,利用特异引物组合pbfF1/pbf R1分别从两份节节麦(AS90、AS2386)中克隆出pbf基因后进行序列分析,并进一步构建pbf基因的原核表达体系。结果表明,从两份节节麦中克隆得到了2个不同类型的pbf基因(GenBank登录号分别为KJ544771和KJ544772),其中来源于AS2386的KJ544772与来源于普通六倍体小麦的1个pbf基因序列完全相同。推导的氨基酸序列分析表明,KJ544771和KJ544772所编码的蛋白质均为弱碱性的亲水蛋白,具有典型的DOF蛋白结构域。与其他远缘物种来源的PBF比对结果表明,该类蛋白在NLS核心、DOF结构域及Ser铰链区相对保守,而在C-端调控区变异较大,说明PBF蛋白具有种属特异性。同时,系统演化树显示,来源于节节麦AS2386的pbf基因与迄今已知的全部普通小麦的pbf基因具有高度的相似性,因此推测该种类型的节节麦很可能参与了最初的普通六倍体小麦的形成。此外,本研究成功构建了pbf基因的原核表达体系,可为后续功能验证的开展奠定基础。  相似文献   

花生中UDP-glucosyltransferase基因的克隆及在非生物胁迫下的表达研究     

陈娜  胡东青  潘丽娟  迟晓元  陈明娜  王通  王冕  杨珍  禹山林 《中国油料作物学报》2014,36(3):308

通过RACE技术从花生叶片cDNA中克隆到了UDP-glucosyltransferase基因,命名为AhUGT83A1-like （Genbank注册号为KF411463）。该基因全长为1 530bp,ORF为1 380bp,编码460个氨基酸。序列比对与进化分析结果表明,该序列有保守的UDPGT结构域,并且与其它植物的UGT蛋白同源性较高。荧光定量PCR结果表明,AhUGT83A1-like基因在高盐和低温处理的花生根和叶片中均上调表达;在干旱处理时,根中表达也受到显著上调,但叶片中表达量则有明显下降。以上结果表明AhUGT83A1-like可能参与了花生对干旱、低温和高盐的抗性调控。ABA处理结果表明,AhUGT83A1-like在花生根中对ABA响应明显,但在叶片中对ABA没有明显响应,表明该基因在花生根中对非生物胁迫的调控可能是以依赖ABA的方式发挥作用的。?  相似文献   

基于RNA-seq技术分析野生大麦穗部发育基因的表达谱及其转录动态     

霍福临  熊祝佩  陈丽琴  聂小军  宋卫宁 《麦类作物学报》2022,(6):649-658

为明确野生大麦穗部发育过程中基因表达的动态变化,以来自以色列的野生大麦Mehula 1-2为材料,对其在穗部发育的4个关键时期（开花后3、8、13和18 d)进行RNA-seq分析,并与栽培大麦穗部的基因表达谱进行了比较。结果表明,在野生大麦穗发育的4个时间点共鉴定到17 163个基因,其中11 273个为差异表达基因,包括635个转录因子相关基因;功能富集分析表明,这些差异基因主要富集到物质合成、代谢过程、物质运输、抗逆等相关过程或通路上;野生大麦和栽培大麦穗部基因的表达谱比较分析发现,两者共同表达的基因显著富集到细胞器、催化、代谢、调节及抗逆等相关通路上,而在特异表达基因方面,栽培大麦主要集中于甲基转移酶、次生壁生物合成、核糖体蛋白等相关基因,野生大麦主要集中于逆境抗性、花青素合成、钙调蛋白等相关基因。本研究发掘的与穗部发育相关的关键基因,丰富了大麦穗部遗传改良基因资源,为进一步解析野生大麦穗部发育关键基因的表达特性和调控机制奠定了基础。  相似文献   

油菜素内酯对低温胁迫下冬小麦 wrab17基因表达的影响     

王璐瑶  刘丽杰  丁美云  孙玉婷  于梦迪  张东向  李珊珊  金忠民 《麦类作物学报》2022,(9):1066-1072

为了探索油菜素内酯（BR）对低温胁迫下 wrab17基因表达模式的影响,以寒地冬小麦品种东农冬麦1号（Dn1）为试验材料,利用qRT-PCR技术克隆得到 wrab17基因的cDNA序列,利用生物信息学方法分析该序列的特征,采用qRT-PCR技术检测低温（5 ℃、0 ℃、-10 ℃、-25 ℃）胁迫下该基因在冬小麦叶片和分蘖节中的表达情况以及BR对 wrab17基因表达量的影响。结果表明, wrab17基因的编码区序列长度为735 bp,包含500 bp的完整开放阅读框,可编码167个氨基酸,属于稳定蛋白质,该蛋白质无跨膜区和信号肽。qRT-PCR分析表明,低温胁迫下对照组和BR处理组的Dn1叶片和分蘖节中, wrab17基因的相对表达量分别在-10 ℃和-25 ℃时最高,且BR处理组 wrab17基因的相对表达量均高于对照组,推测BR可通过提高 wrab17基因的表达量来增强冬小麦的抗寒能力。  相似文献   

东亚砂藓甘油醛-3-磷酸脱氢酶基因的克隆及表达分析     

张梅娟  沙伟刘  博等 《安徽农业科学》2014,(25):8506-8510

[目的]克隆东亚砂藓甘油醛-3-磷酸脱氢酶基因RjGAPDH,并对其进行生物信息学和表达分析。[方法]通过分析东亚砂藓转录组测序数据,利用RT-PCR技术克隆该基因的全长序列,并通过荧光定量PCR分析RjGAPDH基因在不同干旱胁迫时间的表达情况。[结果]该基因全长为1 208 bp,开放阅读框1 053 bp,编码350个氨基酸,预测蛋白分子量为38.66 kD,等电点pI为6.02,不稳定系数为23.97,为稳定蛋白;该基因编码的蛋白无跨膜区和信号肽序列,定位于细胞质。在快速干旱胁迫处理过程中,东亚砂藓RjGAPDH基因的表达量高于正常生长的材料(CK),能被诱导表达。[结论]RjGAPDH基因可能参与东亚砂藓对干旱的胁迫反应,为后续进一步研究其功能特征奠定基础。  相似文献   

获得性遗传的表观遗传学机制     

张梦珂  张国文 《安徽农业科学》2014,(14):4187-4188,4268

随着表观遗传学的兴起,获得性遗传研究开始复兴,现已发现大量获得性遗传现象,但获得性遗传作为一种进化机制仍没有得到广泛认同,其原因在于获得性（表型）遗传如何固化为基因型的研究没有取得进展.通过综合分析表观遗传学所揭示的获得性遗传事实,提出一种获得性遗传的表观遗传学机制,给出获得性（表型）转化为基因型的可能路径.  相似文献