Intronic Sequences for the Discrimination of Silkworm Strains in Silkworm Powder

  • Kim, Kee-Young (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee, Eun-Mee (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology) ;
  • Hong, Mee-Yeon (College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Kang, Pil-Don (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology) ;
  • Ryu, Kang-Sun (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Ik-Soo (College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Chonnam National University)
  • Published : 2007.12.31

Abstract

After a serial study on the therapeutic efficacy of the powdery silkworm for diabetics was positively resulted in, many powdery silkworm products were on the market in Korea. Up to now, however, no causal method is available to discriminate the strain of silkworms that is a major ingredient for manufacturing powdery silkworm, even though the quality of the powdery silkworm differs greatly by source and origin of strains. We previously were successful in identifying 25 silkworm strains kept in Korea using nine intronic sequences. In this study, we tested the utility of the nine intronic sequences to distinguish the most widely reared silkworm strains originated from Korea and China. Two intron regions, PTTH Intron3 and PTTH Intron3, showed a substantial sequence divergence (mean sequence divergence of 3.13% in PTTH Intron3 and 4.99% in PTTH Intron3). These two intronic sequences provided no identical sequences among the seven strains tested. Thus, these sequences each along can be used to discriminate the seven strains tested in this study. Furthermore, other intron regions, except for VDP Intron4 allowed us to discriminate $2{\sim}4$ strains by strain-specific unique insertion/deletion or substitution.

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