Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (4): 602-609.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.04.05

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Validation and function prediction of circ-FBLN2 in duck adipocytes

HU Xiaodan(), WANG Laidi, YANG Ting, BAI Hao, JIANG Yong, WANG Zhixiu, WANG Shasha, CHEN Guohong, CHANG guobin*()   

  1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
  • Received:2020-07-17 Online:2021-04-25 Published:2021-04-25
  • Contact: CHANG guobin

Abstract:

Circular RNA (circRNA) is a kind of circular non-coding RNA characterized by head to tail connection during the transcription process, which plays an important role in many biological processes and diseases. Based on the results of circRNA sequencing during pre-adipocyte differentiation, circ-FBLN2 encoded by FBLN2 was selected for validation analysis. The conjugated sequence was obtained by PCR amplification and pyrosequencing. And circ-FBLN2 was further verified by RNase R digestion experiment. The results of nuclear and cytoplasmic separation experiment showed that circ-FBLN2 mainly existed in cytoplasm, and its expression level of duck adipocyte was significantly decreased after differentiation. There was a certain difference in the expression level of different tissues in Cherry Valley duck, it was mainly expressed in fat and leg muscle. Bioinformatics analysis showed that the predicted target genes and circ-FBLN2 were involved in MAPK, Toll-like receptor and cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction pathways and other signaling pathways. All these announced that circ-FBLN2 may indirectly regulate the differentiation of duck adipocytes by regulating the target genes.

Key words: circ-FBLN2, Cherry Valley duck, adipocyte, tissues expression

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