Cloning and Expression of CMKLR1 Gene and Its Correlation with Intramuscular Fat in Goat (Capra hirus)

In order to enrich basic date in goat (Capra hirus) CMKLR1 gene and investigate the correlation between CMKLR1 gene expression and intramuscular fat (IMF) content in muscles, the CMKLR1 gene was cloned from the goat of subcutaneous adipose tissue by RT-PCR, characterized by bioinformatics methods. The expression profiles of CMKLR1 gene of goat in various tissues were constructed liver was benchmark, the GAPDH (GenBank accession No.: AJ431207.1) as a reference gene.Then, the correlation between CMKLR1 mRNA expression and IMF content in muscles was analyzed. The results showed that the CMKLR1 gene CDS of goat (GenBank accession No.: KT165374) was 1 089 bp. Real-time PCR indicated that CMKLR1 was widely expressed in various tissues, including heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, adipose, longissimus dorsi, biceps femoris and triceps brachii, and was the highest in lung (P< 0.05). Similar expression variation trend of CMKLR1 was observed between the muscles from 1 to 3 and 24 months old goat, and was the highest in biceps femoris. Reversely, in 8 to 10 months old CMKLR1 was the highest in triceps brachii. The IMF of longissimus dorsi from 24 months old was the highest. Correlation analysis demonstrated that different correlations were observed between expression of CMKLR1 mRNA and IMF content in longissimus dorsi, biceps femoris, and triceps brachii in goat. The CMKLR1 gene did not participate in the deposition of IMF in goats. The research built the theoretical basis for further studies about the CMKLR1 gene.     

Polymorphism Analysis of the Agouti-related Protein Gene Exon Ⅰof Quail

The poultry feather color inheritance has been a hot research topic, because the feather color is a kind of important quality character.In this study, we used polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to detect the polymorphisms of four quail populations of different feather color (China Yellow quail, Black quail, Korean quail, Beijing White quail) of agouti-related protein gene (Agrp) exon Ⅰ, so as to investigate the relationship of Agrp exon I with quail plumage color, and to provide reference for the breeding and production of quail.The results showed that two alleles were detected in the Agrp exon Ⅰ of China Yellow quail, Black quail, Korean quail, Beijing White quail populations,and expressed by A and B, respectively. Frequency of allele A in Beijing White quail was up to 0.9500. The frequency of B allele in Korean quail was the highest, reaching 0.3392, in Beijing White quail genes in the lowest frequency is only 0.0500. The genotype frequency of AA genotype in Beijing White quail was the highest (0.9500), the lowest in Korean quail and Black quail (0.4286). BB genotype was not observed in Beijing White quail. We speculated that it may have a certain relationship between Agrp exon Ⅰ B allele and feather color of quail.     

Cloning and Sequence Analysis of ACOX1 Gene in Luchuan Pig

The objective of this study was to clone the acyl-coenzyme A oxidase 1 (ACOX1) gene of Luchuan pig and analyze its genetic structure with bioinformatics. A pair of special primer was designed according to predicted sequence of pig ACOX1 gene in GenBank. The ACOX1 gene was amplified by RT-PCR, the physicochemical property and secondary structure of ACOX1 gene were systemically analyzed by bioinformatics techniques. The results showed that ACOX1 gene fragment included an 1 986 bp whole length CDS (coding 661 bp amino acids). The sequence multi-aligned results showed that Luchuan pig shared 99.5%, 85.5%,87.1%,66.3%,75.6%,84.0%,82.3%,81.1% and 69.1% of similar nucleotide sequence with that of pig,human, zebrafish, chicken, rhesus monkeys, mice, rat and frog, respectively. The prediction of ACOX1 secondary structure showed that Luchuan pig ACOX1 had no signal peptide and transmembrane structure. This study suggested that the whole CDS sequence of ACOX1 gene was successfully cloned in Luchuan pig, and the cloning and analysis of ACOX1 gene provided an important foundation for further studying on the fatty deposition and lipornetabolism of ACOX1 gene in Luchuan pig.     

CHANGES IN GROWTH AND GENE EXPRESSION INDUCED BY SULFUR DEFICIENCY IN GARLIC

ABSTRACT

Sulfur deficiency in garlic Allium sativum L. caused a reduction in growth together with chlorosis and necrosis of leaves. Large differences in shoot sulfur and sulphate concentrations between deficient and high sulfur treatments were only observed after 54 days growth. Using the mRNA differential display technique, a novel cDNA was isolated from shoots grown in sulfur depleted nutrient solution for 24 days. This novel cDNA was constitutively expressed in the shoots during further growth in sulfur depleted solution, but it was undetectable following 30 days recovery with sulfur supplementation. The cDNA sequence demonstrated a high degree of identity with a coat protein gene of a garlic latent carlavirus. The results suggest a possible relationship between low plant sulfur status and the induction of a latent carlavirus in garlic.     

应用RACE技术扩增驴DGAT1基因3′端及序列分析

DGAT1（脂酰辅酶A：二脂酰甘油酰基转移酶）基因是产奶性状的一个重要功能侯选基因。由于通过预测奶牛DGAT1基因序列与马属动物DGAT1基因序列具有98%的同源性,本试验从影响牛产奶性状的DGAT1基因出发,以驴乳腺组织的RNA为模板,按照不同物种DGAT1基因的相似性设计特异引物,运用PCR和3′RACE技术扩增并获得了特异片断,特异片段回收纯化连接到pUCmT Vector载体后,转化到大肠杆菌中并筛选阳性菌落;提取质粒进行测序,结果发现该段序列与预期的目标一致,通过与其他动物同源性比较分析说明已首次克隆到驴DGAT1基因3′端。     

Amplification,Sequence Analysis and Tissue Expression Detection of FUT2 Gene Coding Regions of Dongchuan Pigs

Porcine alpha (1,2) fucosyltransferase (FUT2) gene was importance in glycosphingolipid biosynthesis-globo series, potentially played a regulatory role during Escherichia coli (E. coli) F18 infection process in weaned piglets. In order to explore sequence structure of porcine FUT2 gene and its biological function, this test amplified FUT2 gene CDS sequence of Dongchuan pigs by PCR, forecasted and analyzed the protein sequences and functional regions of FUT2 gene, its expression level was detected in 11 tissues of 8 Dongchuan weaned piglets in 35 days old at the meantime. The results showed that the CDS sequence of FUT2 gene was 1 023 bp, which encoded 340 amino acids. FUT2 protein was fat-soluble hydrophilic protein, which the structure was not stable, including a transmembrane helix structure, but without signal peptide that suggested the FUT2 protein was a membrane protein;FUT2 protein included 2 N-glycosylation sites (No. 185 and No. 305 amino acids), without O-glycosylation sites, there were 14 potential phosphorylation sites, included 6 Ser, 2 Thr and 6 Tyr, analyzing the functional regions found that the FUT2 protein had a superfamily of conserved domains:FUT1-FUT2-like (58-319 amino acids). The phylogenetic tree result showed that the relative relationship between swine and cattle was relatively close, but was distant from chimpanzee, human, mouse and rat. FUT2 gene was expressed in all 11 tissues of Dongchuan weaned piglets, there were higher expression in digestive tract and immune tissues. The present results suggested that FUT2 gene might play a role to resistance to E. coli F18 in weaned piglets, and might indirectly against E. coli F18 through the synthesis of fucosyltransferase.     

水稻耐盐分子机制研究进展

水稻是世界上重要的粮食作物之一，对盐胁迫比较敏感，土壤盐碱化对水稻的安全生产造成潜在风险。盐胁迫会引起水稻的渗透胁迫和离子毒害，还会在植株中引起氧化胁迫，导致水稻品质和产量下降。由于水稻根系能吸收盐分分泌有机酸，同时具有田间持水和排水晒田的生长特性，因此水稻也是一种改良盐渍土的优良作物。因此培育耐盐水稻新品种，提高水稻耐盐性，可有效提高盐渍化耕地的生产潜力，对保障我国乃至全球粮食安全具有重要意义。近年来，数量遗传学和分子标记技术不断发展，通过遗传、生化及分子生物学等手段，挖掘出大量耐盐相关 QTL 和基因，对于解析水稻耐盐分子机制，利用分子标记辅助选择、基因编辑等提高耐盐水稻育种效率，均具有非常重要的意义。但目前克隆的耐盐相关基因大多采用反向遗传学方法获得，且大多是在过表达条件下表现出耐盐性，或者耐盐基因为隐性，难以在耐盐水稻育种中应用。总结近年来水稻耐盐相关基因的鉴定和挖掘研究中所取得的进展，从有机物渗透调节、离子吸收转运调节、抗氧化系统清除活性氧调节、激素调节 4 个方面综述水稻耐盐分子机制的研究进展，并探讨未来水稻耐盐性研究面临的挑战，为开展水稻耐盐分子育种提供建议。     

微小牛蜱Bm91基因的原核表达

根据GenBank收录的微小牛蜱Bm91基因序列设计一对表达引物,以微小牛蜱幼蜱总RNA反转录合成的cDNA为模板,扩增获得了Bm91基因,其长度为1 908 bp,包含一个大小为1 833 bp的完整开放阅读框,编码611个氨基酸,该蛋白预期分子质量为83 ku。将Bm91基因片段亚克隆到原核表达载体pET-30a,构建重组原核表达载体pET-30a-Bm91,转化BL21宿主菌,经IPTG诱导,发现在0.8 mmol/LIPTG,诱导时间2 h,温度37℃条件下,目的重组蛋白表达量最大,约占蛋白总量的20%。SDS-PAGE检测表明,表达产物为分子质量为83 ku的融合蛋白,与预期大小一致;Western blot分析表明,表达产物能被兔抗微小牛蜱阳性血清所识别。     

水稻OsRFP1基因的原核表达与蛋白纯化

以推导的氨基酸序列分析,水稻OsRFP1基因编码一分子量为34.24kDa锌指蛋白。将OsRFP1基因编码区cDNA序列插入到pGEX4T-3载体中构建OsRFP1-gst融合基因的表达载体,并将质粒转化宿主菌大肠杆菌BL21DE3。经IPTG诱导,融合蛋白在BL21DE3细胞中获得表达。利用亲和层析的方法对融合蛋白进行了纯化,SDS-PAGE蛋白电泳显示获得一60kDa的唯一蛋白条带,即OsRFP1-GST融合蛋白。