China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2021, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (2): 563-573.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2021.02.018

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Effects of Interference and Overexpression of BAMBI Gene on the Phenotype and Function of Porcine Ovarian Granulosa Cells

SUN Yishan1, YANG Fei1,2, HUANG Tao1   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technolongy, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832000, China;
    2. Tecon Biological Co., Ltd., Urumqi 830001, China
  • Received:2020-07-13 Online:2021-02-20 Published:2021-02-23

Abstract: To investigate the regulation of bonemorphogenetic protein and activin membrane-bound inhibitor (BAMBI) gene in transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling pathway on porcine follicular granulosa cells,in this study,BAMBI interference vector and overexpression vector were designed and constructed.Porcine ovarian granulosa cells were ransfected with the constructed interference (pSIREN-BAMBI-sh1,pSIREN-BAMBI-sh2,pSIREN-BAMBI-sh3) and overexpression (pcDNA3.1-BAMBI) recombinant plasmids,and Real-time quantitative PCR technology was used to screen effective fragments and detect mRNA expression levels of TGF-β signaling pathway downstream genes (TGF-βRⅠ,TGF-βRⅡ,SMAD1,SMAD2,SMAD3,SMAD4,SMAD5) and apoptosis genes (Bax,Bcl-2).Finally,the effects of BAMBI interference and overexpression on the proliferation and apoptosis of ovarian granulosa cells were detected by MTT method and flow cytometry.The results showed that pSIREN-BAMBI-sh2 had the best effect of inhibiting BAMBI expression and the highest interference efficiency.When interfering with BAMBI,the expression of TGF-βRⅡ increased significantly (P<0.05),so that the expression of SMAD2 and SMAD3 increased significantly (P<0.05).When overexpressing of BAMBI,TGF-βRⅡ decreased significantly (P<0.05),so that the expression of SMAD2 and SMAD3 decreased significantly (P<0.05).Up-regulation of BAMBI inhibited the proliferation of granulosa cells and significantly promoted apoptosis (P<0.01).The results suggested that the BAMBI gene significantly affected the phenotype and function of ovarian granulosa cells,and might indirectly affect the reproductive performance of pigs by regulating the TGF-β signaling pathway.

Key words: pig; transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β); BAMBI gene; granulosa cells; interference; overexpression

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