›› 2016, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (10): 2553-2559.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2016.10.007

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Effect of L Type Amino Acid Transporter 1 on β-casein Expression in Mammary Epithelial Cells of Dairy Cows

XING Wei-nan, DUAN Xiao-yu, YANG Yang, HOU Xiao-ming, LIN Ye   

  1. College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
  • Received:2016-01-26 Online:2016-10-20 Published:2016-10-28

Abstract:

In order to investigate the effect of LAT1 on β-casein expression in mammary epithelial cells of dairy cows,the LAT1 gene of dairy cow was amplified by PCR and pIRES2-EGFP-LAT1 expression vector was constructed.Then pIRES2-EGFP-LAT1 expression vector was transfected into mammary epithelial cells.The effects of LAT1 overexpression on expression of LAT1,4F2hc and β-casein were detected by Western blotting after 48 h of transfection.The results showed that pIRES2-EGFP-LAT1 was transfected into mammary epithelial cells successfully.The expression of LAT1 was extremely significantly increased (P<0.01) and β-casein was significantly increased (P<0.05) when LAT1 was overexpressed,while the expression of 4F2hc was not significantly changed (P>0.05).These results suggested that LAT1 had an important role in promoting milk protein synthesis in mammary epithelial cells of dairy cow.

Key words: dairy cow; mammary epithelial cell; LAT1; β-casein

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