Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2022, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (1): 76-87.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2022.01.008

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Cloning of Goat DGAT1 Gene and Its Regulation on Lipid Deposition in Preadipocytes

YANG Changheng1,2, LI Qi1,2, HUANG Wei2, LIN Yaqiu2, WANG Yong1,2, XIANG Hua2, ZHU Jiangjiang1,2*   

  1. 1. Institute of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu 610041, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Animal Genetic Resource Reservation and Utilization, Ministry of Education/Sichuan Province, Chengdu 610041, China
  • Received:2021-05-25 Online:2022-01-23 Published:2022-01-26

Abstract: The aim of the study was to clone the sequence of DGAT1 gene, clarify its expression pattern in different tissues of goat, and further reveal the role of DGAT1 gene in regulating lipid metabolism in goat intramuscular preadipocytes. In this study, seven healthy 10-month-old Jianzhou male goats were used as experimental animals. The sequence of DGAT1 gene was cloned by RT-PCR and analyzed using bioinformatics. The relative expression level of DGAT1 in different tissues of goat were determined by real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). The eukaryotic expression vector pcDNA3.1-DGAT1 was constructed by double enzyme digestion and transfected into goat intramuscular preadipocytes. RT-qPCR was used for detecting the expression of DGAT1 and lipid metabolism-related genes. The effect of overexpression of DGAT1 on lipid droplet formation was observed by Oil red O staining method, and the GPO-Trinder enzyme reaction was used to measure triglyceride content. A length of 1 651 bp of DGAT1 gene was cloned (GenBank accession number: MT221183), including 125 bp 5'UTR, 1 470 bp CDS, and 56 bp 3'UTR, encoding 489 amino acid residues. The goat DGAT1 gene had the highest expression in small intestine and the lowest in spleen. RT-qPCR results showed that DGAT1 was extremely significantly overexpressed in cells (P<0.01) by pcDNA3.1-DGAT1 treatment, as a results, the expression of GPAM (P<0.05), ADRP (P<0.01) and ACOX1 (P<0.01) were significantly up-regulated, while the expression of AGPAT6 (P<0.05), MLYCD (P<0.01) and HSL (P<0.01) were significantly down-regulated. Oil red O staining results showed that the lipid droplet accumulation after overexpression of DGAT1 was significantly (P<0.01) increased compared with that in the control group, as well as the results of triglyceride determination (P<0.01) in intramuscular adipocytes in goats. This study successfully obtained the goat DGAT1 gene CDS region sequence and constructed the pcDNA3.1-DGAT1 eukaryotic expression vector, overexpression of DGAT1 could significantly promote lipid deposition of intramuscular preadipocytes in goats and significantly affect the expression of lipid metabolism-related genes. These results provide important data for further clarifying the mechanism of DGAT1 in regulating intramuscular lipid metabolism in goats.

Key words: goat, DGAT1, overexpression, intramuscular preadipocytes, triglycerides

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