ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2011, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (4): 495-502.doi:

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Molecular Cloning of C/EBPα in Landes Geese and the Effect of Overfeeding on Its mRNA Expression Levels

YU Sha-li, ZHANG Xiang, SU Sheng-yan, ZHOU Yang, LI Qi-fa, XIE Zhuang*   

  1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2011-04-20 Published:2011-04-20

Abstract: The experiment was conducted to clone the C/EBPα gene in Landes geese liver and to check the relative expression levels of C/EBPα mRNA of different groups. In the study, the gene sequence was obtained based on the C/EBPα gene sequence of chicken. The results showed that the C/EBPα gene has a 975 bp open reading frame (ORF) flanked by a 210 bp 5′UTR and a 397 bp 3′UTR. The deduced amino acid sequence has 324 residues, which was a nucleoprotein residing in nucleolus without signal peptide and transmembrane region.The C/EBPα protein contained a carboxyl terminal basic-leucine zipper (bZIP) domain, which was characterized by cysteinerich, doublezinc finger motifs and a distinct homeodomain. Also, the levels of C/EBPα mRNA of different groups were detected by real-time PCR. Compared to the control group, the levels of C/EBPα mRNA of all overfeeding groups increased significantly (P<0.05 or P<0.01).The level of overfeeding supplemented with T3 and betaine group was higher than that of control group (P<0.01) and other overfeeding groups (P<0.05). So it is suggested that the C/EBPα gene may be related with lipid metabolism.