ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2015, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (1): 26-31.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2015.01.004

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Expression Pattern of Chicken Krüppel-like Factor 3 Gene and Its Effect on Adipocyte Differentiation

WANG Hai-xia 1,ZHANG Zhi-wei1,2,HE Qi1,WANG Ning1,WANG Yu-xiang 1,CAO Zhi-ping1,LI Hui1*   

  1. (1.Key Laboratory of Chicken Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Agriculture,Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics,Breeding and Reproduction at Education Department of Heilongjiang Province,College of Animal Science and Technology,Northeast Agricultural University,Harbin 150030,China;2.School of Medicine,Shihezi University,Shihezi 832000,China)
  • Received:2014-05-07 Online:2015-01-23 Published:2015-01-23

Abstract:

 This experiment was conducted to study the expression pattern of Krüppel-like factor 3(Gallus gallus KLF3,gKLF3) gene,and its effect on adipocyte differentiation.The expression pattern of gKLF3 in the adipose tissue and adipocytes of broilers were analyzed by using qRT-PCR.The effect of gKLF3 on adipocyte differentiation was analyzed by over-expression technology.The result showed that gKLF3 was consecutively expressed during the chicken adipose tissue development from 2- to 10-week-old.At 10-week-old,the gKLF3 expression in the abdominal fat tissues was significantly higher in fat line chicken than that in lean line chicken(P<0.05).Additionally,the significantly higher gKLF3 expression level was observed in preadipocytes in contrast to that in mature adipocytes(P<0.01).The expression levels of gKLF3 in preadipocytes induced by oleate were lower than that in control.Moreover,over-expression of gKLF3 inhibited adipocyte differentiation and down-regulated expression of FAS and C/EBPα (P<0.01).The result indicate that gKLF3 play an important role in the growth and development of chicken abdominal adipose tissue,and might restrain adipocyte differentiation by inhibiting the expression of C/EBPα and FAS.

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