Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (5): 227-238. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193911

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Molecular Cloning and Expression Analysis of NPY Gene in Silurus lanzhouensis

LAI Zhanglong1, RUAN Chaoling1,2,6, XIAO Wei2,3,4,5, LIU Yanbin2,3,4,5, YU Zhaoxi2,3,4, LIU Kai2,3,4, SAI Qingyun2,3,4, TIAN Yonghua2,3,4, ZHANG Feng2,3,4,5, YANG Ruilan3, LIU Ting3, YANG Liqiang3, WANG Yutao1,6, LIAN Zongqiang1,2,3,4   

  1. 1 The College of Life and Geographic Sciences,Kashi University,Kashi 844000,China
    2 Ningxia Fisheries Research Institute,Yinchuan 750001,China
    3 College of Animal Science and Technology,Gansu Agricultural University,Lanzhou 730070,China
    4 Ningxia Fishery Engineering Technology Research Center,Yinchuan 750001,China
    5 Academician Workstation of Ningxia Fishery Science and Technology, Yinchuan 750001,China
    6 Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Ecology of Pamirs Plateau in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,Kashi 844000,China
  • Received:2022-12-08 Published:2023-10-28

Abstract:

In view of the low conversion rate of artificial domestication and survival rate of seedling cultivation of Silurus lanzhouensis,in order to use gene editing technology to create and cultivate new germplasm of S.lanzhouensis that was easy to domesticate,the effects of neuropeptide Y gene(NPY) of S.lanzhouensis were studied.The results showed that the full cDNA sequence of the NPY gene was 775 bp in length,with an open reading frame(ORF)of 288 bp,which encoded 95 amino acids and contained a transmembrane helix and a signal peptide binding site for pancreatic hormone recognition.The NPY protein sequence of S.lanzhouensis had the highest consistency with that of Silurus meridionalis,which was 98.95%.The Real-time Fluorescent Quantitative PCR results showed that NPY mRNA expression was the highest in brain tissue,followed by the hypothalamus,and the lowest in muscle.The expression level of NPY mRNA in male tissues of different ages was higher than that in female tissues;and the expression of NPY mRNA decreased with age in both sexes.Localization of brain cells by in situ hybridization found that NPY was mainly expressed in the cytoplasm,and abundant expression was found in the preoptic area,tectum,pituitary,the lentiform nucleus of cerebellum and the caudate nucleus of the medulla oblongata in different parts of the brain.Further verification of starvation compensation showed that the expression of NPY in brain tissue increased significantly after starvation,and decreased significantly after feeding.The above results showed that NPY gene might play an important role in the growth and feeding process of S.lanzhouensis.It could be used as an important verification of the subsequent functional gene editing and the creation of new germplasm,and had important theoretical significance and technical support for accelerating the breeding of new varieties of S.lanzhouensis.

Key words: Silurus lanzhouensis, NPY gene, Bioinformatics, Gene cloning, In situ hybridization, Tissue expression

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LAI Zhanglong, RUAN Chaoling, XIAO Wei, LIU Yanbin, YU Zhaoxi, LIU Kai, SAI Qingyun, TIAN Yonghua, ZHANG Feng, YANG Ruilan, LIU Ting, YANG Liqiang, WANG Yutao, LIAN Zongqiang. Molecular Cloning and Expression Analysis of NPY Gene in Silurus lanzhouensis[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2023, 38(5): 227-238. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193911.

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