TY - JOUR
T1 - Expression of bovine interferon-tau variants according to sex and age of conceptuses
AU - Walker, Angela M.
AU - Kimura, Koji
AU - Roberts, R. Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Dr. Mark Ellersieck for his assistance on the statistical analysis and the MU Bovine Genome Project for providing conceptus samples from individual day points. This work was supported by NIH grant HD21896 and USDA NRI grant 2003-35205-12812.
PY - 2009/7/1
Y1 - 2009/7/1
N2 - Interferon-tau (IFNT), which plays a major role in maternal recognition of pregnancy in cattle, is transcribed from multiple genes. Moreover, there are at least 12 cDNA variants, many presumably allelic. Although the IFNT locus is autosomal, Day 8 female blastocysts produced approximately twice as much antiviral activity as males. The questions addressed here are whether male and female blastocysts differed in the kind and number of IFNT they expressed, and whether this pattern changed over development. Day 8, in vitro-produced blastocysts were bisected, and one half of each was sexed by PCR. Demi-embryos (n = 64) were grouped according to whether they were male or female, to provide two pools of each sex. Individual cDNA were sequenced after RT-PCR amplification and shot-gun cloning to provide comparisons between male and female blastocysts, elongating conceptuses of various developmental ages (Days 14-19), and a female trophoblast cell line (CT-1). A total of 376 cDNA clones were sequenced. Six additional cDNA were identified, in addition to the forms described earlier. There were no differences between male and female blastocysts (P = 0.54), and between blastocysts and a trophoblast model system (CT-1 cells; P = 0.24) in the IFNT transcripts expressed, indicating that sexual dimorphism wass not correlated with particular IFNT variants. There were differences in variant frequencies (P < 0.001) among conceptuses of different age, although two, representing boIFN1a and boIFN3c, predominated throughout development. Notably, no alteration in overall IFNT variant diversity was detected in CT-1 cells over time (P = 0.124).
AB - Interferon-tau (IFNT), which plays a major role in maternal recognition of pregnancy in cattle, is transcribed from multiple genes. Moreover, there are at least 12 cDNA variants, many presumably allelic. Although the IFNT locus is autosomal, Day 8 female blastocysts produced approximately twice as much antiviral activity as males. The questions addressed here are whether male and female blastocysts differed in the kind and number of IFNT they expressed, and whether this pattern changed over development. Day 8, in vitro-produced blastocysts were bisected, and one half of each was sexed by PCR. Demi-embryos (n = 64) were grouped according to whether they were male or female, to provide two pools of each sex. Individual cDNA were sequenced after RT-PCR amplification and shot-gun cloning to provide comparisons between male and female blastocysts, elongating conceptuses of various developmental ages (Days 14-19), and a female trophoblast cell line (CT-1). A total of 376 cDNA clones were sequenced. Six additional cDNA were identified, in addition to the forms described earlier. There were no differences between male and female blastocysts (P = 0.54), and between blastocysts and a trophoblast model system (CT-1 cells; P = 0.24) in the IFNT transcripts expressed, indicating that sexual dimorphism wass not correlated with particular IFNT variants. There were differences in variant frequencies (P < 0.001) among conceptuses of different age, although two, representing boIFN1a and boIFN3c, predominated throughout development. Notably, no alteration in overall IFNT variant diversity was detected in CT-1 cells over time (P = 0.124).
KW - Cattle
KW - IFN-tau
KW - Interferon-tau
KW - Maternal recognition of pregnancy
KW - Pregnancy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2009.01.017
DO - 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2009.01.017
M3 - Article
C2 - 19324401
AN - SCOPUS:67349094523
VL - 72
SP - 44
EP - 53
JO - Theriogenology
JF - Theriogenology
SN - 0093-691X
IS - 1
ER -