›› 2015, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 1518-1523.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2015.06.029

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Polymorphism of TNF-α Gene Promoter and its Effect on mRNA Expression in Large White Pigs

SUN Li, XIA Ri-wei, LIU Ying, SUN Shou-yong, BAO Wen-bin, WU Sheng-long   

  1. Key Laboratory for Animal Genetics, Breeding, Reproduction and Molecular Design of Jiangsu Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
  • Received:2014-11-03 Online:2015-06-20 Published:2015-07-23

Abstract: Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) gene plays an important role in innate immunity and inflammatory responses,this study aimed at analyzing the relationship between the polymorphism of TNF-α gene promoter and gene expression in Large White pigs,and further providing a scientific basis for analyzing the genetic effect of TNF-α gene promoter C-791T mutation.This study detected the polymorphism at C-791T site of TNF-α gene promoter in 201 heads of Large White pigs by PCR-SSCP method.Meanwhile,the expression of TNF-α gene in 11 tissues was assayed by Real-time PCR and analyzed the differential expression among individuals with different genotypes at C-791T site.The results showed that there existed one mutation (C-791T) in TNF-α gene promoter and three genotypes were detected,which were CC, CT and TT.The mRNA expressions of TNF-α were higher in spleen,lung,thymus and lymph of weaned piglets.TNF-α gene expression levels of TT and CT genotypes individual were generally higher than CC genotype individual in 11 tissues,and the mRNA expression in TT and CT individuals were significant higher than that in CC individuals in the duodenum and jejunum tissue (P <0.05).Therefore,the C-791T mutation of TNF-α gene promoter indeed had a significant influence on the mRNA expression level of TNF-α gene,which indicated that it was necessary for us to carry out an in depth study of TNF-α gene promoter C-791T polymorphism as genetic markers of enhancing the resistance to intestinal pathogenic bacteria.

Key words: pig; TNF gene; polymorphism; differential expression

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