›› 2019, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (6): 1567-1575.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2019.06.001

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Study on Inhibition of Nrf2 Gene Expression in Bovine Endometrial Epithelial Cells by siRNA

HU Xiuzhong1, CHENG Lei1, YU Jie1, XIANG Min1, XIA Yu1, TAO Bifei1, ZHOU Yuan1, WANG Dingfa1, XIONG Haiqian2   

  1. 1. Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan 430065, China;
    2. Huanggang Meijiadun Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd., Huanggang 438000, China
  • Received:2018-09-28 Online:2019-06-20 Published:2019-06-19

Abstract:

In order to investigate the effect of nuclear factor E2 related factor (Nrf2) gene on bovine endometrial epithelial cells,this experiment used small interference RNA (siRNA) technology and tert-butylhydroquinone(tBHQ) as Nrf2 activator to study the effects of Nrf2 on the expression of hemeoxygenase-1 (HO-1) and Homebox A10 (HOXA10) in bovine endometrial epithelial cells.The results showed that in the designed two siRNA sequences(siRNA-1209 and siRNA-1672),the siRNA-1672 had a better inhibitory effect at a final concentration of 75 nmol/L and a response time of 24 h by Real-time quantitative PCR,the inhibition efficiency was over 80%.Western blotting results showed that the protein expression level of Nrf2 extremely significantly decreased at 96 h after transfection (P<0.01);While the mRNA expression levels of HO-1 and HOXA10 extremely significantly decreased by 60% and 70% (P<0.01),respectively,and the protein expression of HO-1 and HOXA10 extremely significantly or significantly decreased after 96 h (P<0.01;P<0.05).In addition,CCK8 method was used in this test,it found that the proliferation ability of bovine endometrial epithelial cells was weakened.In the tBHQ-activated the expression of Nrf2 assay,the protein expression of Nrf2 was the highest in the final concentration of tBHQ at 30 μmol/L,which was extremely significantly higher than that of control group (P<0.01),and the protein expression levels of HO-1 and HOXA10 were also higher than that of control group.This experiment results indicated that the designed siRNA-1672 could specifically inhibit the expression of Nrf2 in bovine endometrial epithelial cells,while the inhibition of Nrf2 expression led to a decrease in the proliferation ability of bovine endometrial epithelial cells,and Nrf2 regulated the expression of HO-1 and HOXA10 genes in bovine endometrial epithelial cells.

Key words: bovine; RNAi; endometrial epithelial cell; Nrf2 gene; HO-1 gene; HOXA10 gene

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