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http://dx.doi.org/10.5352/JLS.2010.20.12.1859

Molecular Identification of Deer Antlers using Nucleotide Sequences of Mitochondrial Displacement Loop Region  

Yoo, Hyun-Sook (Professional Graduate School of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang Univ.)
Lee, Gi-Nam (Professional Graduate School of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang Univ.)
Lee, Jin-Sung (Department of Genetic Engineering, SungKyunKwan Univ.)
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Journal of Life Science / v.20, no.12, 2010 , pp. 1859-1866 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is reported that about 80% of deer antlers (Cervi Pantotricuhum Cornu) produced in the world are consumed in Korea. Fraudulent replacement or mislabeling of costly deer antlers with cheaper ones, however, is one of the most common problems in the Korean deer antler market. Therefore, there is a continuous need for the development of genetic markers to discriminate between genuine and fraudulent deer antlers. This study was performed to develop a method for the identification and authentication of deer antlers using nucleotide sequence analysis against displacement loop of mitochondrial genome among four deer antlers, Cervus eleaphus sibericus, Cervus eleaphus bactrianus, Cervus eleaphus Canadensis, and Cervus eleaphus, originated from Russia, China, North America and New Zealand, respectively. As a result, multiple-alignment of mitochondrial displacement (D) loop region in 1.2 kb showed that, among the four deer antlers, a deleted sequence of about 70 bps was only found in Cervus elaphus bactrianus from China. Finally, Cervus elaphus bactrianus among nine samples of deer antlers were successfully identified by PCR using primer amplifying deleted D-loop. Cervus elaphus bactrianus was also confirmed from cloning the PCR products and their nucleotide sequence analyses were confirmed. However, no marker to identify Cervus eleaphus sibericus, Cervus eleaphus canadensis and Cervus eleaphus were found in the nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial D-loop. Our results suggest that PCR for deleted D-loop region of mitochondrial DNA are useful for identification and authentication of deer antlers of Cervus elaphus bactrianus originating from China.
Keywords
Deer Antler; Cervus elaphus; mitochondrial DNA; displacement loop region; PCR;
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