Molecular cloning of the cDNA encoding the β subunit of thyrotropin and regulation of its gene expression by thyroid hormones in the goldfish, Carassius auratus     

Y. Yoshiura  Y.C. Sohn  A. Munakata  M. Kobayashi  K. Aida 《Fish physiology and biochemistry》1999,21(3):201-210

A cDNA encoding the subunit of thyrotropin (TSH) was isolated from a goldfish (Carassius auratus) pituitary gland cDNA library. By comparing the sequence with other teleost TSHs, a signal peptide of 19 amino acids and a mature hormone of 131 amino acids were predicted for goldfish TSH subunits. The resulting putative mature hormone of 131 amino acids had well-conserved cysteine positions and a putative N-linked glycosylation site; homology was 51–67% with TSHs from other teleosts, 38–43% with tetrapod TSHs, but only 27 and 29% with goldfish GTH-I and -II, respectively. We also examined the effects of thyroid hormones (TH) and thiourea (TU, an inhibitor of TH production) treatments on TSH and GTH subunit gene expressions in the goldfish pituitary gland. After thyroxine (T₄) treatment, circulating T₄ concentration increased and TSH mRNA level decreased. Supressing the amount of circulating T₄ and triiodothyronine (T₃) by TU treatment increased the TSH mRNA level. Moreover, T₄ replacement therapy (simultaneous treatment of both TU and T₄) caused a high level of circulating T₄ and a low level of circulating T₃, and a decrease in the TSH mRNA level. Thus, changing levels of circulating TH exert a negative feedback on the level of TSH subunit mRNA in goldfish in vivo. On the other hand, GTH subunit mRNA levels were not affected by changes in the levels of circulating TH.  相似文献   

日本脑炎病毒弱毒疫苗株全长cDNA的体外合成及恢复病毒的拯救     

蒋春英  ;魏建超  ;钟登科  ;朱紫祥  ;武专昌  ;史子学  ;邵东华  ;李蓓蓓  ;马志永 《兽医大学学报》2014,(7):1106-1111

将病毒的全基因组分成3个重叠的区段分别扩增出来,把这3个片段连接到载体中。以这3个片段为模板,通过融合PCR方法,获得JEV的全长cDNA。以cDNA为体外转录的模板,体外转录获得病毒mRNA,转染BHK-21细胞,拯救JEV病毒。通过生物学特性、分子生物学、蛋白水平等几个方面对恢复病毒进行鉴定,并测定恢复病毒的生长曲线和LD50。结果显示,获得了全长cDNA,体外转录获得的病毒RNA转染BHK-21细胞后,二代恢复病毒可引起明显的细胞病变,间接免疫荧光试验和RT-PCR均为阳性。空斑试验表明,拯救病毒与原病毒空斑表型类似;恢复病毒与亲本毒相比在BHK-21细胞上生长更快;恢复病毒的LD50与亲本毒类似。  相似文献   

DNA芯片技术及其应用     

吴昀卓 《畜禽业》2005,(11):20-21

本文介绍了DNA芯片技术的基本过程,主要包括DNA芯片的制备、样品的制备及与探针的杂交、杂交结果的检测与读出。还介绍了其应用前景及目前存在的一些问题。  相似文献   

Molecular biology and enzymology of elasmobranch 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase     

S. Nunez  J.M. Trant 《Fish physiology and biochemistry》1998,19(4):293-304

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cDNA cloning and characterization of the warm-temperature-acclimation-associated protein Wap65 from carp, Cyprinus carpio     

S. Kinoshita  S. Itoi  S. Watabe 《Fish physiology and biochemistry》2001,24(2):125-134

We determined full-length cDNA of carp warm-temperature-acclimation-associated 65-kDa protein (Wap65). It encoded 439 amino acid residues with a signal peptide of 22 residues and showed an amino acid sequence identity of 88% to that of goldfish reported before (J. Biol. Chem. 1995. 270: 17087–17092). The number of potential N-linked glycosylation sites of carp Wap65 was two in contrast to three for goldfish. In addition, molecular mass determined by SDS-PAGE was apparently different from that of goldfish. These results suggest that the amount of oligosaccharide is different between the carp and goldfish protein. As in goldfish, carp Wap65 mRNA showed marked accumulation in hepatopancreas of the 30 °C- acclimated fish, which was 8-fold higher than that of the 10 °C-acclimated fish. Carp Wap65 showed 30% amino acid identity to mammalian hemopexins, which appeared to be considerably low in comparison with those among mammalian hemopexins (72 to 80%), or among carp Wap65 and rainbow trout hemopexin-like protein (70%). However, although mammalian hemopexins contain residues comprising the heme binding pocket, carp Wap65 lacked one of the two histidine residues to serve as heme axial ligands in hemopexins. Our data on carp protein substantiates the previous observation for goldfish and indicates that Wap65 might have some important functions in warm-temperature-acclimation of fish.  相似文献   

Evolutionary implications of two rainbow trout growth hormone genes     

T. T. Chen  L. B. Agellon  C. M. Lin  H. J. Tsai  Peijun Zhang  L. I. González-Villasénor  D. A. Powers 《Fish physiology and biochemistry》1989,7(1-6):381-385

The primary structures of two rainbow trout growth hormone mRNAs (GH1 and GH2) have been deduced by direct sequencing of their respective cDNA clones and portions of the mRNA. Both GH1 and GH2 mRNA contain open reading frames comprised of 630 nucleotides and encode 210 amino acid residues of which 11 are variant. The translated regions of both mRNA are flanked by a short but rather conserved 5′-end, and a relatively long but highly diverged 3′-end. The differences at translated and 3′-untranslated regions suggest that the GH1 and GH2 mRNA originate from different loci. The GH1 and GH2 mRNA are likely transcribed from two distinct loci which were duplicated during tetraploidization of salmonid genome between 50 to 100 million years ago. The GH2 gene has been isolated and sequenced from a rainbow trout genomic library. This gene spans a region of approximately 4 kilobases. The trout GH gene is comprised of 6 exons and 5 introns, in contrast to 5 exons and 4 introns in mammals. The additional intron in the trout gene interrupts the translated regions that are analogous to the last exon of the mammalian counterpart. The alleged internally repeating sequences in mammalian GH, prolactin (Pr1) and placental lactogen (PL) are not observed in the predicted polypeptide sequence of trout GH. In addition, direct repeats that flank exons I, III and V of mammalian GH, Pr1 and PL genes are absent in trout gene. These findings indicate that the rainbow trout GH gene structure does not support the current hypothesis that internally repeated regions in GH, Pr1 and PL arose from a small primordial gene.  相似文献   

Nucleotide sequence and mRNA expression analysis of <Emphasis Type="Italic">β</Emphasis>-actin gene in the orange-spotted grouper <Emphasis Type="Italic">Epinephelus coioides</Emphasis>     

W.?M.?ZhangEmail author  Y.?Zhang  L.?H.?Zhang  S.?G.?Wang  T.?Y.?Zhu  D.?Lin  G.?Z.?Ma 《Fish physiology and biochemistry》2005,31(4):373-383

The full-length cDNA, encoding the orange-spotted grouper β-actin and spanning 1920 bp including a poly (A) tail, was cloned from its brain cDNA library. The open reading frame encodes a protein of 375 amino acids. Sequence analysis indicated that it contained the typical structural features of cytoplasmic actins, and showed higher homology with other vertebrate β-actin than any other members of the actin family. The partial genomic sequence indicated that the organization of the β-actin gene in the orange-spotted grouper might also be conserved. Northern blot analysis indicated that it was expressed at high levels in the brain, spleen, adipose tissue, ovary, and liver, but at low levels in the gill filament and heart, and at a very low level in the kidney. The expression of β-actin gene in the skeletal muscle was barely detectable. These results indicated that the expression of the orange-spotted grouper β-actin gene showed significant variation in different tissues. Therefore, caution should be taken when using β-actin gene as an internal control in the normalization of gene expression among tissues. Whereas, semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis indicated that treatment with 17α–methyltestosterone (MT) had little effect on the mRNA expression of β-actin gene in the in vitro incubated hypothalamus, pituitary, and ovary fragments of the orange-spotted grouper, suggesting β-actin can be used as an internal control for RT-PCR analysis of MT effects on gene expression in these tissues.  相似文献   

Determination of primary structure of amberjack myosin heavy chain and its relationship with structural stability of various fish myosin rods   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Reina Kawabata  Nobuyuki Kanzawa  Masahiro Ogawa  Takahide Tsuchiya 《Fish physiology and biochemistry》2000,23(4):283-294

The structural stability of fish myosin depends upon species and temperatures of water in which fish live. Primary, secondary, and quaternary structures of myosin heavy chain (MyHC) from three species of fish living at different temperature ranges have been compared with those of rabbit MyHC in order to investigate the differences in stability. Primary structure of MyHC, although being accessible for warm-water and cold-water fish (carp and walleye pollack), was not available in previous for tropical-water fish literature; so in this study primary structure of MyHC of the tropical-water fish amberjack has been determined by cloning and sequencing its cDNA. The MyHC has 1938 amino acid residues (AA), which are almost as much as as those of carp and walleye pollack. The amberjack MyHC is 91–95% homologous with other fish and rabbit MyHCs. There is a discernible difference between animal species with stable myosin rod (amberjack, carp, and rabbit) and walleye pollack with unstable rod. Stable rod species have a high probability of forming coiled-coil around the COOH-terminal end of the rod, while the pollack has a low coiled-coil formation probability. In addition, the average scores of the coiled-coil for myosin rod were rabbit (1.738) > amberjack (1.691) > carp (1.680) > walleye pollack (1.674) which correlated exactly with the observed stability. The results suggest that coiled-coil forming ability, particularly around the COOH-terminal end, directs structural stability of fish myosin rod.  相似文献   

草鱼生长激素cDNA基因的克隆及序列分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

杨瑶  张海萍  张爱萍  周天强 《水产养殖》2001,(3):32-35

通过反转录PCR技术，从草鱼脑垂体的总RNA中获得一特异cDNA片段，经克隆后测序，结果表明，该片段长633bp，与报道的草鱼生长激素基因相比，有10个碱基的差异，而推导的蛋白质仅1个氨基酸残基的差异，推测为草鱼生长激素cDNA基因。  相似文献   

外源ABA处理大麦胚的均一化cDNA文库的构建     

曹玲珑  李冬兵  熊大斌  牛洪斌  姜玉梅  尹钧 《麦类作物学报》2014,34(7):912-916

构建外源ABA处理大麦胚的均一化cDNA文库是利用酵母双杂交方法筛选与靶蛋白相互作用蛋白的前提条件。为给大麦抗逆基因的研究及抗逆转基因大麦材料的创制奠定基础,利用5μmol·L-1ABA和蒸馏水分别处理大麦种子0h、6h、12h、24h,剥取大麦的胚,用热酚法提取总RNA,利用SMART原理进行反转录PCR并进行均一化处理获得ds-cDNA。经SfiⅠ酶切的ds-cDNA与pGADT7-Rec载体连接后,转化大肠杆菌感受态细胞DH10B构建文库。结果表明,文库的容量为1.1×106,插入片段大于1 000bp,集中在1 000~3 000bp之间,符合酵母双杂交文库的要求。  相似文献