ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2013, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (5): 710-718.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2013.05.007

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Effects of Insulin on mRNA Expression of Genes Related to Milk Protein and Fat Synthesis in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells Cultured in vitro

WANG Hao-yu, QIN Tong, HAO Hai-sheng, DU Wei-hua, ZHAO Xue-ming, ZHU Hua-bin*   

  1. Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2012-12-19 Online:2013-05-23 Published:2013-05-23

Abstract:

 This experiment was conducted to study the effects of insulin on mRNA expression of genes related to milk protein and fat synthesis in bovine mammary cells cultured in vitro. Mammary epithelial cells were cultured for 24 h with the following hormone treatments: no hormones (NH, control), 50 ng·mL-1 hydrocortisone + 200 ng·mL-1 prolactin (FP) or 100 ng·mL-1  insulin + 50 ng·mL-1 hydrocortisone + 200 ng·mL-1 prolactin (IFP). The relative expression of the related genes of milk protein and fat synthesis were measured by real-time PCR. The results showed that the mRNA relative abundance of β-casein (CSN2), κ-casein (CSN3), Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACACA), fatty acid synthase (FASN) and sterol regulatory element pinding protein1 (SREBP1) in IFP group were significantly up-regulated(P<0.05). In addition, signal transducers and activators of transduction 5(STAT5B) and ETS-related transcription factor Elf-5 (ELF5) in JAK2-STAT5 signal pathway, as well as Phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K), protein kinase B(AKT1) and eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E(EIF4E) in PI3K/Akt/mTOR siganal pathway in IFP group were significantly up-regulated (P<0.05), while the IFP hormone combinations had no effect on TSC1, TSC2 or RHEB transcription in AMPK singal pathway. The data demonstrated that insulin induced the mRNA expression of genes related to milk protein synthesis through JAK2-STAT5 and PI3K/Akt/mTOR signal pathway and the mRNA expression of genes related to milk fat synthesis through PI3K/Akt/mTOR and SREBP signal pathway in bovine mammary epithelial cells cultured in vitro, which indicated insulin, hydrocortisone and prolactin regulate the mRNA expression of genes related to milk protein and fat synthes together.

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