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Detection and Characterization of PCR-SSCP Markers of the Bovine Lactoferrin Gene for Clinical Mastitis

  • Zhou, Lei (Institute of Cattle Science, Nanjing Agricultural University) ;
  • Yang, Yuan-Yuan (Institute of Cattle Science, Nanjing Agricultural University) ;
  • Li, Zhong-Hao (Institute of Cattle Science, Nanjing Agricultural University) ;
  • Kong, Li-Juan (Institute of Cattle Science, Nanjing Agricultural University) ;
  • Xing, Guan-Dong (Institute of Cattle Science, Nanjing Agricultural University) ;
  • Di, He-Shuang (Institute of Cattle Science, Nanjing Agricultural University) ;
  • Wang, Gen-Lin (Institute of Cattle Science, Nanjing Agricultural University)
  • Received : 2006.01.13
  • Accepted : 2006.05.01
  • Published : 2006.10.01

Abstract

A total of 80 cows, including 40 top mastitis resistant and 40 top mastitis susceptible animals as Group I and Group II, were selected from a population of 520 cows based on clinical mastitis occurrence. PCR-SSCP analysis on four fragments within the 5'region and two fragments of Exons 4,15 of bovine lactoferrin (bLF) revealed that four fragments-P1,P4,E4,E15-had polymorphisms which totally included six base mutations, and only two of them had significant differences in allele frequencies between resistant and susceptible groups, P1 (53.7% vs. 70.0%, p<0.05) and P4 (55.0% vs. 68.8%, p<0.05). Further study on these two promising markers combined with the milk performance traits of cows demonstrated that their selection would result in higher fat percentage (p<0.05), lower Somatic Cell Score (SCS) (p<0.05) and Clinical Mastitis Residuals (CMR) (p<0.01) indicating higher mastitis resistance and lower milk yield (p<0.05). The putative transcription factor binding sites in the 5'region were also studied by using MatInspector 7.2.2 software, and two signal pathways regulating the expression of bLF including the NF-${\kappa}B$ pathway and nuclear hormone receptor pathway were predicted.

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