猪CAPN1基因部分外显子及3'UTR区的SNPs检测

以野猪.民猪和大白猪为研究对象,根据网上公布的序列设计了7对引物,采用测序,PCR-SSCP和PCR-RFLP方法对CAPN1基因的部分外显子和3'UTR区进行了单核苷酸多态性检测和基因型分析,探讨CAPN1基因多态性与瘦肉率和嫩度的关系.研究发现11个SNPs,其中5个位于外显子,4个位于内含子,2个位于3'UTR区,外显子中的突变有一处是错义突变,导致了蛋白质多肽链第260位氨基酸发生了M/V的替代.群体遗传学分析表明,在所检测的各多态位点上,野猪、民猪、大白猪3个品种间不同基因型的分布都存在着极显著的差异(P<0.01),而野猪和民猪之间各基因型的分布差异不显著(P>0.05),民猪和大白猪之间各基因型的分布存在着极显著的差异(P<0.01).结合品种特性分析表明,P4、P6引物和3'UTR区Hinf1位点所检测的不同基因型和瘦肉率具有一定的相关性.     

野猪、民猪、大白猪μ-钙激活酶基因的变异位点分析

为了进一步研究CAPN1基因变异与肉嫩度的关系, 寻找与猪嫩度性状相关的分子标记, 对CAPN1基因组进行了克隆、测序, 并利用PCR-SSCP方法对其编码区序列进行了分子扫描, 寻找多态位点, 分析不同基因型在野猪、民猪、大白猪中的种间分布规律。获得了猪CAPN1基因的15个内含子序列; 根据GenBank上提供的CAPN1 CDS及克隆的内含子序列设计了5对多态性引物进行PCR-SSCP分析; 共找到8个SNPs, 其中7个位于外显子上, 1个位于内含子上, 并且外显子上的突变有3个是错义突变, 分别造成了蛋白质多肽链上第54位氨基酸的S/T、第192位氨基酸的G/E、第363位氨基酸的V/I替代; χ²独立性检验表明不同基因型在大白猪与野猪、民猪之间存在着极显著的差异(P<0.01), 野猪和民猪之间除了S1引物3种基因型的分布存在显著差异外(0.010.05)。这些多态位点具有成为分子标记的潜在可能。     

五指山猪GH、IGFBP3基因SNPs检测及与生长性状的关联分析

以五指山猪为试验材料,采用PCR-SSCP和测序相结合技术,对GH基因和IGFBP3基因进行多态性检测,并分析其与生长性状(体质量,体高,体长和胸围)的相关性。结果表明,GH基因第2外显子存在一处G→A转换,属沉默突变,该位点与生长性状关联分析显示,BB基因型的体重显著高于AA基因型和AB基因型;IGFBP3基因第2外显子存在一处G→C颠换,属沉默突变,该位点与生长性状关联分析显示,AA基因型的体高显著高于BB基因型;IGFBP3基因第4内含子存在一处碱基C缺失,该位点与生长性状关联分析显示,AA基因型体重显著高于AB基因型和BB基因型。研究将为五指山猪生长发育规律、系统选育及矮小机制等方面研究提供了遗传学依据。     

西藏牦牛ADD1基因第2外显子的PCR-SSCP检测及序列分析

利用PCR-SSCP和DNA测序方法对帕里牦牛、工布江达牦牛、类乌齐牦牛、康布牦牛、桑日牦牛、巴青牦牛、江达牦牛、斯布牦牛、嘉黎牦牛、桑桑牦牛、丁青牦牛等西藏11个牦牛类群共483头牦牛的ADD1基因(被认为是极可能影响肉质的候选基因)第2外显子序列进行遗传多态性分析。结果表明,66 bp处碱基T缺失和256 bp处A→G突变,共有AA、AB、BB 3种基因型;其中帕里牦牛只有AA基因型,江达牦牛只有AB基因型,康布牦牛、嘉黎牦牛、巴青牦牛、桑日牦牛、斯布牦牛均缺少BB基因型,丁青牦牛、类乌齐牦牛缺少AB型,均存在严重偏态;桑桑牦牛、工布江达牦牛中存在AA、AB、BB 3种基因型。除江达牦牛外,其它10个牦牛类群中AA为优势基因型,A基因为优势等位基因,分布较高。除帕里牦牛、巴青牦牛外,其它9个牦牛类群均处于中度多态(0.25相似文献   

钙蛋白酶Ⅰ(CAPN1)基因多态性与鸡肉嫩度和屠体性状的相关研究

为了探讨CAPN1基因作为影响鸡肌肉嫩度候选基因的可能性, 寻找与鸡嫩度性状相关的分子标记, 对钙蛋白酶Ⅰ(CAPN1)基因的CDS区进行SNPs 检测, 分析不同基因型在5个优质肉鸡纯品系和3个配套系间分布规律。利用测序和单链构象多态(SSCP)的方法进行SNPs 检测和基因型的分析, 计算等位基因频率、各位点多态信息含量。结果发现2546位(位点A) 处发生点突变由C→T和3535位(位点B)处发生点突变由G→A。各位点的3 种基因型与肉鸡生产性状的最小二乘分析结果表明,各位点的各种基因型个体在肌纤维密度和部分屠体性状指标存在显著差异(P< 0.05)。初步推断CAPN1基因可能是影响鸡嫩度性状潜在的主效基因或与主效基因连锁, 并且这些位点具有成为分子标记的潜在可能。     

猪AMPD1基因的克隆与变异位点分析

腺苷一磷酸脱氨酶基因(AMPD1)在嘌呤代谢过程中起着重要的作用。AMPD1基因主要在骨骼肌中高水平表达, 与肌肉中肌苷酸代谢有关。还发现AMPD1与猪的胴体性状有关。对AMPD1基因CDS进行了克隆、测序, 获得2 195 bp的CDS序列, 并利用PCR-SSCP方法对其进行分子扫描, 寻找多态位点, 分析不同基因型在不同猪种间的分布规律。χ2独立性检验表明, 民猪、大白猪、杜洛克间不同基因型的分布存在着极显著的差异(P<0.01)。     

猪MyoG基因3′端PCR-SSCP遗传多态性及其遗传效应(英文)

采用PCR-SSCP方法对长白猪、大白猪、杜洛克猪、山西黑猪和马身猪共636头猪的肌细胞生成素(Myogenin,简称MyoG)基因3′端的遗传多态性进行检测,分析MyoG基因对猪的初生体质量、断奶体质量、6月龄体质量和背膘厚的影响。根据已发表的猪MyoG基因3′端侧翼序列设计3对引物,发现F1/R1引物对扩增的片段有多态性。统计结果发现:长白、大白、杜洛克猪种B基因为优势基因,其基因频率分别为0.8807、0.7256和0.8581;山西黑猪种A基因为优势基因,其基因频率为0.9359;马身猪种只检测到A基因。χ2独立性检验表明,基因型分布在外来猪种(长白猪、大白猪、杜洛克猪)与地方猪种(山西黑猪、马身猪)间存在极显著差异(P<0.01)。固定效应模型分析结果表明,初生体质量基因型间差异显著(P<0.05),而断奶体质量、6月龄体质量和背膘厚基因型间差异不显著(P>0.05)。最小二乘分析结果表明,BB基因型与其它2种基因型比较有较大的初生质量,同AA和AB型比较差异极显著(P<0.01)。因此,推测MyoG基因对个体的初生体质量存在一定的影响,选择带有B等位基因的个体有望提高个体的初生体质量。     

猪CACNA1S基因部分序列的克隆、测序及SNP检测

CACNA1S是钙离子通道主效亚基α1亚单位的编码基因,该基因突变会导致人（Homo sapiens）低钾性周期性麻痹和恶性高温综合征．目前CACNAIS基因的研究主要集中在人和模式动物上,而在家畜中的研究少见报道．本研究以金华猪（115头）、皮特兰猪（30头）、金华猪与皮特兰猪杂交产生的金皮F2代杂种猪（126头）、大约克猪（23头）为研究对象,根据人CACNA1S基因序列设计引物,对猪基因组DNA进行PCR扩增、克隆测序,并与人相应序列作同源性比较,然后采用PCR-SSCP技术检测序列中可能存在的单核苷酸多态（single nucleotide polymorphism,SNP）位点,并对有合适内切酶存在的突变点应用PCR-RFLP技术进行验证．结果表明：（i）用6对引物对猪基因组DNA进行扩增,共克隆得到猪CACNAIS基因约5211bp的DNA序列,其中外显子区域,猪与人同源性为82．6％,序列已递交GeneBank收录（登录号DQ767693）;（ii）在克隆得到的DNA序列中,共检测到57个单核苷酸突变点,其中外显子区域存在24个;（iii）突变位点的PCR-RFLP验证与PCR-SSCP检测结果一致,经与GenBank公布的猪CACNAIS基因EST小片段（Bx914582,Bx666997）比较,相应长度核酸序列内本实验检测到的11个SNP位点中,有8个位点的碱基突变与2个EST片段间存在的碱基差异相同．     

猪Mx1基因第14外显子多态性分析及新突变位点的 发现

采用PCR-RFLP方法对国内外7个猪种Mx1基因第14外显子的多态性进行分析, 共检测到3个等位基因, 6种基因型。其中杜洛克中仅存在AA基因型, 苏太猪中存在全部基因型, 只有在梅山猪和具有梅山猪血统的苏太猪中出现基因型BB。所有猪种中, 只有在地方猪种和培育猪种中出现等位基因B, 所有猪种除松辽黑猪外均以A为优势等位基因。卡方检验结果表明, 不同猪种间基因型分布差异较大, 梅山猪和松辽黑猪与其他所有猪种的基因型频率差异极显著(P＜0.01) , 苏太猪与除皮特兰猪外的所有猪种的基因型频率差异也极显著(P＜0.01) , 淮猪与杜洛克和约克夏这两个国外猪种基因型频率差异不显著(P＞0.05), 而与皮特兰和其他地方猪种的基因型频率均存在极显著差异(P＜0.01) 。通过测序在扩增片段中新发现了3种类型的碱基突变, 前2个分别导致了Thr和Glu向Ala和Arg的替换, 最后一个突变不引起氨基酸的变化, 且后两个突变位点为BB基因型所特有。     

The emergence of alternative 3' and 5' splice site exons from constitutive exons

Alternative 3' and 5' splice site (ss) events constitute a significant part of all alternative splicing events. These events were also found to be related to several aberrant splicing diseases. However, only few of the characteristics that distinguish these events from alternative cassette exons are known currently. In this study, we compared the characteristics of constitutive exons, alternative cassette exons, and alternative 3'ss and 5'ss exons. The results revealed that alternative 3'ss and 5'ss exons are an intermediate state between constitutive and alternative cassette exons, where the constitutive side resembles constitutive exons, and the alternative side resembles alternative cassette exons. The results also show that alternative 3'ss and 5'ss exons exhibit low levels of symmetry (frame-preserving), similar to constitutive exons, whereas the sequence between the two alternative splice sites shows high symmetry levels, similar to alternative cassette exons. In addition, flanking intronic conservation analysis revealed that exons whose alternative splice sites are at least nine nucleotides apart show a high conservation level, indicating intronic participation in the regulation of their splicing, whereas exons whose alternative splice sites are fewer than nine nucleotides apart show a low conservation level. Further examination of these exons, spanning seven vertebrate species, suggests an evolutionary model in which the alternative state is a derivative of an ancestral constitutive exon, where a mutation inside the exon or along the flanking intron resulted in the creation of a new splice site that competes with the original one, leading to alternative splice site selection. This model was validated experimentally on four exons, showing that they indeed originated from constitutive exons that acquired a new competing splice site during evolution.     

Molecular architecture of a miRNA-regulated 3' UTR

Animal genomes contain hundreds of microRNAs (miRNAs), small regulatory RNAs that control gene expression by binding to complementary sites in target mRNAs. Some rules that govern miRNA/target interaction have been elucidated but their general applicability awaits further experimentation on a case-by-case basis. We use here an assay system in transgenic nematodes to analyze the interaction of the Caenorhabditis elegans lsy-6 miRNA with 3' UTR sequences. In contrast to many previously described assay systems used to analyze miRNA/target interactions, our assay system operates within the cellular context in which lsy-6 normally functions, a single neuron in the nervous system of C. elegans. Through extensive mutational analysis, we define features in the known and experimentally validated target of lsy-6, the 3' UTR of the cog-1 homeobox gene, that are required for a functional miRNA/target interaction. We describe that both in the context of the cog-1 3' UTR and in the context of heterologous 3' UTRs, one or more seed matches are not a reliable predictor for a functional miRNA/target interaction. We rather find that two nonsequence specific contextual features beyond miRNA target sites are critical determinants of miRNA-mediated 3' UTR regulation. The contextual features reside 3' of lsy-6 binding sites in the 3' UTR and act in a combinatorial manner; mutation of each results in limited defects in 3' UTR regulation, but a combinatorial deletion results in complete loss of 3' UTR regulation. Together with two lsy-6 sites, these two contextual features are capable of imparting regulation on a heterologous 3' UTR. Moreover, the contextual features need to be present in a specific configuration relative to miRNA binding sites and could either represent protein binding sites or provide an appropriate structural context. We conclude that a given target site resides in a 3' UTR context that evolved beyond target site complementarity to support regulation by a specific miRNA. The large number of 3' UTRs that we analyzed in this study will also be useful to computational biologists in designing the next generation of miRNA/target prediction algorithms.     

Analysis of the 3' UTR of the ART3 and ART4 gene by 3' inverse RACE-PCR.

3' Rapid amplification of cDNA ends (3' RACE) is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based technique which has been developed to analyse 3' ends of partially known cDNA sequences. To improve the effectiveness of the technique, many investigators have modified the RACE protocol. Here, we describe an alternative procedure for analysing 3' mRNA ends which is based on DNA ligase-mediated self circularization and inverse PCR. This technique is simple and characterized by the exclusive use of gene-specific primers and the absence of unspecific adaptor sequences to obtain highly specific PCR products. We applied the method to analyze the 3' UTR of human mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase (ART) 3 mRNA in testis and heart muscle and of ART4 mRNA in HEL cells. The obtained sequences of ART3 and ART4 mRNA corresponded to data base entries of the respective mRNAs. No adenylate/uridylate-rich elements (AREs) were found in the 3' UTR of ART3 mRNA while one ARE class I motif was detected in the 3' UTR of ART4 mRNA.     

Structural lability in stem-loop 1 drives a 5' UTR-3' UTR interaction in coronavirus replication

The leader RNA of the 5′ untranslated region (UTR) of coronaviral genomes contains two stem-loop structures denoted SL1 and SL2. Herein, we show that SL1 is functionally and structurally bipartite. While the upper region of SL1 is required to be paired, we observe strong genetic selection against viruses that contain a deletion of A35, an extrahelical nucleotide that destabilizes SL1, in favor of genomes that contain a diverse panel of destabilizing second-site mutations, due to introduction of a noncanonical base pair near A35. Viruses containing destabilizing SL1-ΔA35 mutations also contain one of two specific mutations in the 3′ UTR. Thermal denaturation and imino proton solvent exchange experiments reveal that the lower half of SL1 is unstable and that second-site SL1-ΔA35 substitutions are characterized by one or more features of the wild-type SL1. We propose a “dynamic SL1” model, in which the base of SL1 has an optimized lability required to mediate a physical interaction between the 5′ UTR and the 3′ UTR that stimulates subgenomic RNA synthesis. Although not conserved at the nucleotide sequence level, these general structural characteristics of SL1 appear to be conserved in other coronaviral genomes.     

Investigation of SNPs in the porcine desmoglein 1 gene

Background

Two annual surveys, the abattoir and the fallen stock, monitor the presence of scrapie across Europe. A simple comparison between the prevalence estimates in different countries reveals that, in 2003, the abattoir survey appears to detect more scrapie in some countries. This is contrary to evidence suggesting the greater ability of the fallen stock survey to detect the disease. We applied meta-analysis techniques to study this apparent heterogeneity in the behaviour of the surveys across Europe. Furthermore, we conducted a meta-regression analysis to assess the effect of country-specific characteristics on the variability. We have chosen the odds ratios between the two surveys to inform the underlying relationship between them and to allow comparisons between the countries under the meta-regression framework. Baseline risks, those of the slaughtered populations across Europe, and country-specific covariates, available from the European Commission Report, were inputted in the model to explain the heterogeneity.

Results

Our results show the presence of significant heterogeneity in the odds ratios between countries and no reduction in the variability after adjustment for the different risks in the baseline populations. Three countries contributed the most to the overall heterogeneity: Germany, Ireland and The Netherlands. The inclusion of country-specific covariates did not, in general, reduce the variability except for one variable: the proportion of the total adult sheep population sampled as fallen stock by each country. A large residual heterogeneity remained in the model indicating the presence of substantial effect variability between countries.

Conclusion

The meta-analysis approach was useful to assess the level of heterogeneity in the implementation of the surveys and to explore the reasons for the variation between countries.