Comparative transcript profiling of gene expression of fresh and frozen-thawed bull sperm
Comparative transcript profiling of gene expression of fresh and frozen-thawed bull sperm
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10.1016/j.theriogenology.2014.10.015
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2015-03-01
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2.8
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Wang, Dong
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作者:
Chen, Xiaoli;Wang, Yonggui;Wang, Dong
Although frozen semen is widely used commercially in the cattle breeding industry, the resultant pregnancy rate is lower than that produced using fresh semen. Cryodamage is a major problem in semen cryopreservation; it causes changes to sperm transcripts that may influence sperm function and motility. We used suppression subtractive hybridization technology to establish a complementary DNA subtractive library, and combined microarray technology and sequence homology analysis to screen and analyze differentially expressed genes in the library, comparing fresh sperm with the frozen-thawed sperm of nine bulls. Overall, 19 positive differentially expressed unigenes were identified using microarray data and Significance Analysis of Microarrays software (vertical bar score (d)vertical bar >= 2, fold change > 1, and false discovery rate < 0.05). Of 15 differentially expressed unigenes exhibited high sequence homology (E-value 1E(-03)) and were considered novel genes. The expression of five of these genes-RPL31, PRKCE, PAPSS2, PLP1, and R1G7-was verified by quantitative real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. There was a significant differential expression of the RPL31 gene (P < 0.05). Our preliminary results provide an overview of differentially expressed transcripts between fresh and frozen-thawed sperm of Holstein bulls. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.