The present study cloned successfully two lipid-metabolism genes, lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and fatty acid binding protein (FABPs) from cobia and studied the mRNA expressions of the two genes and their upstream gene PPARs when the cobia were fed diets containing 15% lipid. Among the lipids, 6% was fish oil and the remaining 9% were supplemented by fish oil (FO, rich in n-3 HUFA), perilla oil (PE, rich in 18:2 n-6), safflower oil (SA, rich in 18:2 n-6), olive oil (OL, rich in 18:1 n-9) or palm oil (PA, rich in 16:0). The whole sequences of LPL, liver-FABP (L-FABP) and muscle-FABP (M-FABP) encode 520, 126 and 133 amino acids, respectively. RT-PCR and real time PCR analyses based on these gene sequences show that the mRNA expressions of L-FABP and M-FABP in the tissue of the cobia were diet-specific. The mRNA expression of LPL, on the other hand, did not respond to the treatments, except in visceral fat depot. Linear regression analysis shows that the mRNA expression of LPL in the liver and muscle was positively (P<0.05) related to dietary fatty acids and ther concentration, but that in the visceral fat depot was negatively related. The mRNA expression of FABPs was also positively correlated with dietary fatty acid levels. Among all fatty acids, the levels of C14:0, C20:1 n-9, EPA and DHA were positively correlated with the mRNA expression of PPARĀ£^and also with FABPs mRNA expression in the visceral fat depot and LPL mRNA expression in the muscle. Thus, LPL, L-FABP and M-FABP mRNA expression of the cobia were highly influenced by the kind and amount of dietary fatty acids. The role of PPARs was not clearly demonstrated.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0822108-121205 |
Date | 22 August 2008 |
Creators | Tseng, Mei-Cheuh |
Contributors | Shi-Yen Shiau, Houng-Yung Chen, Rey-Chang Chang, Li-Lian Liu |
Publisher | NSYSU |
Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
Language | Cholon |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0822108-121205 |
Rights | restricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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