Abstract:This experiment was to explore the tissue specific expession of NELL1 and FMO3 in fat-tailed sheep under different nutrition levels and in different growth periods. Firstly,nine-month-aged Tan sheep,Tong sheep,Kazakh and Tibetan sheep which had the similar body mass were selected for adipose tissue collection,three individuals were used for each breed. In total,112 healthy Tan sheep were randomly divided into four groups (according to a completely random experiment design) with four replicates per group (two males and two females),each replicate comprises seven animals. This experiment was divided into three periods according to mass gain target:22-28 kg,28-35 kg,35-40 kg. At the end of each stage,the liver fat,perineal fat,tail fat and subcutaneous fat were collected. The total RNA was extracted from adipose tissues,and the expression level of FMO3 and NELL1 were analyzed by quantitative PCR. The results showed as that: the highest expression level of FMO3 was in the Kazakh breed (fat-tailed),followed by Tong,Tan,and Tibetan sheep (short-tail). In addition, NELL1 is highly expressed in the tails of Tibetan sheep,declined in turn with Tan sheep,Tong sheep,and Kazakh breed. The expression of FMO3 and NELL1 in liver and tail fat were significantly affected by nutrition levels and ages,while there was no detectable influence in perineal and subcutaneous fat. In conclusion,fat deposition had a positive correlation to FMO3 expression and negatively correlated to NELL1 expression in sheep. The effects of FMO3 and NELL1 on fat deposition may be regulated through their expression difference in liver and tail fat. Our results provide molecular basis to illustrate the mechanism of fat deposition in fat-tailed sheep breeds. |