کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1976100 1060675 2007 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Prawn lipocalin: Characteristics and expressional pattern in subepidermal adipose tissue during reproductive molting cycle
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Prawn lipocalin: Characteristics and expressional pattern in subepidermal adipose tissue during reproductive molting cycle
چکیده انگلیسی

In crustaceans, the fascinating processes of maturation, reproductive molting and carapace coloration are regulated by hydrophobic molecules. Interestingly, most of the molecules are ligands of lipocalin. To understand the role of lipocalin in the aforementioned processes at molecular level, we isolated a cDNA that belongs to the lipocalin family, from a central nervous system cDNA library of Macrobrachium rosenbergii. We monitored the spatial and temporal distributions of the mRNA by using Northern Blotting analysis. Our results demonstrated that this gene expresses abundantly in the subepidermal adipose tissue, while faintly in the hepatopancreas and central nervous system. However, no signal was detected in other tissues including muscle, gill and ovary. Its expression levels in subepidermal adipose tissue during various stages of maturation as well as through the whole molting cycle showed that prawn lipocalin is involved in sexual maturation, as the maximal level was observed just after molt.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Volume 147, Issue 2, June 2007, Pages 222–229
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