ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2017, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (6): 1150-1157.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2017.06.020

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Cloning and Activity Analysis of the Promoter Region of Swine DKK1 Gene

HU Hui-yan1, JIA Qing1,2,3*, HOU Sheng-kui1, LIU Jin1, ZHAO Si-si1, ZHANG Wei-feng4, ZHANG Jun5, ZHANG Jian-ting6, BIAN Hui-min7   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, China;
    2. National Engineering Research Center for Agriculture in Northern Mountainous Areas, Baoding 071000, China;
    3. Engineering Research Center for Agriculture in Hebei Mountainous Areas, Baoding 071000, China;
    4. School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056000, China;
    5. Tangshan Animal Husbandry Station, Tangshan 063000, China;
    6. Anping Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station, Anping 053000, China;
    7. Xingtai Animal Husbandry Station, Xingtai 054000, China
  • Received:2017-01-06 Online:2017-06-23 Published:2017-06-23

Abstract:

To further investigate the transcriptional regulatory mechanism of DKK1(Dickkopf1) gene, the sequence features were analyzed by promoter online prediction tools, which were based on the 5'-flanking sequence of swine DKK1 gene published by Ensembl database. Specific primers were designed by Primer Premier 5.0 software to amplify DKK1 gene. To analyze its transcriptional activity, pGL3-DKK1 promoter luciferase reporter gene vectors were constructed and transfected into 293T cells and Hela cells, respectively. The results showed that the promoter region of DKK1 gene contained a TATA-box, a variety of transcription factors and a CpG island. Meanwhile, the promoter of DKK1 gene had a preference for 239T cells, and the sequence of -1 679/+292 bp had the highest promoter activity, which was obviously higher than that of other fragments (P<0.01). Further analysis revealed that there were core promoter region (-953/-1 679), negative (-586/-953) and positive (-953/-1 679) regulatory regions, respectively. The 5'-flanking sequence of swine DKK1 was analyzed by bioinformatics combined with the reporter gene activity detection of promoter fragments with different length, this result demonstrated that it had transcriptional activity of promoter, and its promoter region was preliminarily determined, and the core promoter region and the main regulatory region were successfully identified, which laid a foundation for further studying on the transcriptional regulatory mechanism of the DKK1.

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