ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2016, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (1): 183-189.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2016.01.025

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Expression of Inflammation-related miRNAs in the LPS-induced Inflammation in Murine Mammary Epithelial Cells and Construction of miR-223 Eukaryotic Expression Vector

HAO Jun-fang1,2,HUANG Kai2,WANG Yue-ying1,2,DU Li-li1,2,ZHONG Kai1,2*   

  1. (1.Key Lab of Regulation on Animal Growth and Development of Agricultural Ministry of China,Henan Agricultural University,Zhengzhou 450002,China;2.College of Veterinary Medicine,Henan Agricultural University,Zhengzhou 450002,China)
  • Received:2015-05-23 Online:2016-01-23 Published:2016-01-23

Abstract:

Small RNA (miRNA) is a class of endogenous,single strand,small non-coding RNAs,which is recently discovered.Its regulation in the process of immune defense in mammary tissue gradually attracted people’s attention.Expression changes of inflammation-related miRNAs have been detected in mouse mammary epithelial cells when inflammation reaction induced with LPS occurred with qRT-PCR;we have also constructed 3 kinds of miR-223 eukaryotic expression vectors and tested recombinant vectors transfection efficiency.Mouse mammary epithelial cells (EpH4-Ev cells) have been incubated with different dose of LPS for 48 h,then,expressions of miR-223,miR-146a,miR-181a and miR-155 have been detected with qRT-PCR.Genomic DNA of EpH4-Ev cells were used as a template and pre-miR-223 cDNA sequence was amplificated with PCR.PCR product was combined with Minicircle,pcDNA3.1(+) and piggyBac transposon,separately,to construct three kinds of miR-223 eukaryotic expression vectors.Three kinds of recombined vectors were transfected into EpH4-Ev cells,respectively.Expression of miR-223 was measured and green fluorescence was observed in order to evaluate transfection efficiency of recombinant plasmid.qRT-PCR results showed that expression of 4 kinds of inflammation-related in EpH4-Ev cells significantly increased when inflammation induced by LPS (P<0.05 or P<0.01),and the expression change was in a dose-dependent manner.qRT-PCR results showed that the expression level of miR-223 had no significant change (P>0.05) when Mini-miR-223 plasmid transfected into the EpH4-Ev cells,while the expression of miR-223 significantly increased when PB-miR-223 and pcDNA-miR-223 transfected EpH4-Ev cells (P<0.001).Inflammation-related miRNAs have been showed involved in the process of inflammation induced by LPS in mouse EpH4-Ev cells.Three kinds of miR-223 eukaryotic expression vectors have been constructed successfully,and may contribute to further research of the modulation significance of miRNAs in the mammary gland immune reaction.

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