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Molecular Characterization of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-Gamma Coactivator-1? (PGC1?) and Its Role in Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Blunt Snout Bream (Megalobrama amblycephala).

ABSTRACT: PGC1? is a transcriptional coactivator that plays key roles in mitochondrial biogenesis, so exploring its molecular characterization contributes to the understanding of mitochondrial function in cultured fish. In the present study, a full-length cDNA coding PGC1? was cloned from the liver of blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) which covered 3741 bp with an open reading frame of 2646 bp encoding 881 amino acids. Sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis revealed high conservation with other fish species, as well as other higher vertebrates. Comparison of the derived amino acid sequences indicates that, as with other fish, there is a proline at position 176 (RIRP) compared to a Thr in the mammalian sequences (RIRT). To investigate PGC1? function, three in vitro tests were carried out using primary hepatocytes of blunt snout bream. The effect of AMPK activity on the expression of PGC1? was determined by the culture of the hepatocytes with an activator (Metformin) or inhibitor (Compound C) of AMPK. Neither AMPK activation nor inhibition altered PGC1? expression. Knockdown of PGC1? expression in hepatocytes using small interfering RNA (si-RNA) was used to determine the role of PGC1? in mitochondrial biogenesis. No significant differences in the expression of NRF1 and TFAM, and mtDNA copy number were found between control and si-RNA groups. Also, hepatocytes were cultured with oleic acid, and the findings showed the significant reduction of mtDNA copy number in oleic acid group compared to control. Moreover, oleic acid down-regulated the expression of NRF1 and TFAM genes, while PGC1? expression remained unchanged. Our findings support the proposal that PGC1? may not play a role in mitochondrial biogenesis in blunt snout bream hepatocytes.

SUBMITTER: Song X

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6354234 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Molecular Characterization of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-Gamma Coactivator-1α (PGC1α) and Its Role in Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Blunt Snout Bream (Megalobrama amblycephala).

Song Xiaojun X Rahimnejad Samad S Zhou Wenhao W Cai Linsen L Lu Kangle K

Frontiers in physiology 20190124

PGC1α is a transcriptional coactivator that plays key roles in mitochondrial biogenesis, so exploring its molecular characterization contributes to the understanding of mitochondrial function in cultured fish. In the present study, a full-length cDNA coding PGC1α was cloned from the liver of blunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) which covered 3741 bp with an open reading frame of 2646 bp encoding 881 amino acids. Sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis revealed h ...[more]

PMID: 30733687

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Project description:BackgroundBlunt snout bream (Megalobrama amblycephala) is an herbivorous freshwater fish species native to China and has been recognized as a main aquaculture species in the Chinese freshwater polyculture system with high economic value. Right now, only limited EST resources were available for M. amblycephala. Recent advances in large-scale RNA sequencing provide a fast, cost-effective, and reliable approach to generate large expression datasets for functional genomic analysis, which is especially suitable for non-model species with un-sequenced genomes.Methodology and principal findingsUsing 454 pyrosequencing, a total of 1,409,706 high quality reads (total length 577 Mbp) were generated from the normalized cDNA of pooled M. amblycephala individuals. These sequences were assembled into 26,802 contigs and 73,675 singletons. After BLAST searches against the NCBI non-redundant (NR) and UniProt databases with an arbitrary expectation value of E(-10), over 40,000 unigenes were functionally annotated and classified using the FunCat functional annotation scheme. A comparative genomics approach revealed a substantial proportion of genes expressed in M. amblycephala tanscriptome to be shared across the genomes of zebrafish, medaka, tetraodon, fugu, stickleback, human, mouse, and chicken, and identified a substantial number of potentially novel M. amblycephala genes. A total number of 4,952 SSRs were found and 116 polymorphic loci have been characterized. A significant number of SNPs (25,697) and indels (23,287) were identified based on specific filter criteria in the M. amblycephala.ConclusionsThis study is the first comprehensive transcriptome analysis for a fish species belonging to the genus Megalobrama. These large EST resources are expected to be valuable for the development of molecular markers, construction of gene-based linkage map, and large-scale expression analysis of M. amblycephala, as well as comparative genome analysis for the genus Megalobrama fish species. The identified SSR and SNP markers will greatly benefit its breeding program and whole genome association studies.

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Molecular Characterization of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-Gamma Coactivator-1? (PGC1?) and Its Role in Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Blunt Snout Bream (Megalobrama amblycephala).

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Molecular Characterization of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-Gamma Coactivator-1α (PGC1α) and Its Role in Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Blunt Snout Bream (<i>Megalobrama amblycephala</i>).

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