Characterization of two whey protein genes in the Australian dasyurid marsupial, the stripe-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis macroura)

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 62-69

  De Leo, A A ^a   Lefevre, C ^a,b   Topcic, D ^a   Pharo, E ^a   Cheng, J F ^c   Frappell, P ^d   Westerman, M ^d   Graves, J A M ^a,e   Nicholas, K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEIN; ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; EARLY LACTATION PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; MILK PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHEY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CHROMOSOME ISOLATION; DISULFIDE BOND; EXON; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACTATION; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAT; SMINTHOPSIS MACROURA;

ANIMALS; APROTININ; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LACTATION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MARSUPIALIA; MILK PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DASYURIDAE; METATHERIA; SMINTHOPSIS CRASSICAUDATA; SMINTHOPSIS MACROURA; SMINTHOPSIS MURINA;

EID: 33748747016     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094802     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Bailey L, Lemon M: A specific protein difference in the milk from two mammary glands of a red kangaroo. Aust J Exp Biol Med Sci 44:705 (1966).
2. Ballard FJ, Grbovac S, Nicholas KR, et al: Differential changes in the milk concentrations of epidermal growth factor and insulin like growth factor-I during lactation in the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii. Gen Comp Endocrinol 98:262-268 (1995).
3. Beg OU, Von Bahr-Lindstrom H, Zaidi ZH, et al: A camel milk whey protein rich in half-cystine. Primary structure, assessment of variations, internal repeat patterns, and relationships with neurophysin and other active polypeptides. Eur J Biochem 159:195-201 (1986).
4. Chapman MA, Charchar FJ, Kinston S, et al: Comparative and functional analyses of LYL1 loci establish marsupial sequences as a model for phylogenetic footprinting. Genomics 81:249-259 (2003).
5. Clauss A, Lija H, Lundwall A: A locus on human chromosome 20 contains several genes expressing protease inhibitor domains with homology to whey acidic protein. Biochem J 368:233-242 (2002).
6. De Leo AA, Guedelha N, Toder R, et al: Comparative chromosome painting between marsupial orders: relationships with a 2n = 14 ancestral marsupial karyotype. Chromosome Res 7:509-517 (1999).
7. Demmer J, Stasiuk SJ, Grigor MR, et al: Differential expression of the whey acidic protein gene during lactation in the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Biochim Biophys Acta 1522:187-194 (2001).
8. Devinoy E, Hubert C, Jolivet G, et al: Recent data on the structure of rabbit milk protein genes and on the mechanism of the hormonal control of their expression. Reprod Nutr Dev 28:1145-1164 (1988).
9. Ewer RF: A preliminary survey of the behaviour in captivity of the dasyurid marsupial, Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Gould). Z Tierpsychol 25:319-365 (1968).
10. Ewing B, Green P: Base-calling of automated sequencer traces using phred. II. Error probabilities. Genome Res 8:186-194 (1998).
11. Frigo L, Woolley PA: Growth and development of pouch young of the stripefaced Dunnart, Sminthopisis macroura (Marsupialia:Dasyuridae), in captivity. Austral J Zool 45:157 (1997).
12. Gemmell RT, Selwood L: Structural development in the newborn marsupial, the stripe-faced dunnart, Sminthopsis macroura. Acta Anat 149:1-12 (1994).
13. Godfrey GK, Crowcroft P: Breeding the fat-tailed marsupial mouse, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, in captivity. Inter Zoo Yearbook 11:34 (1971).
14. Green B: Composition of milk and energetics of growth in marsupials. Zool Soc Lond Symp 51:369 (1984).
15. Griffiths M, McIntosh DL, Leckie RMC: The mammary gland of the red kangaroo with observations on the fatty acid components of the milk triglycerides. J Zool Lond 166:265 (1972).
16. Hendry KA, Simpson KJ, Nicholas KR, et al: Autocrine inhibition of milk secretion in the lactating tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). J Mol Endocrinol 21:169-177 (1998).
17. Hennighausen LG, Sippel AE, Hobbs AA, et al: Comparative sequence analysis of the mRNAs coding for mouse and rat whey protein. Nucleic Acids Res 10:3733-3744 (1982).
18. Jenness R: Lactational performance of various mammalian species. J Dairy Sci 69:869-885 (1986).
19. Nicholas KR: Asynchronous dual lactation in a marsupial, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Biochem Biophys Res Commun 154:529-536 (1988).
20. Nicholas K, Simpson K, Wilson M, et al: The tammar wallaby: a model to study putative autocrine-induced changes in milk composition. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia 2:299-310 (1997).
21. Nicholas KR, Fisher JA, Muths E, et al: Secretion of whey acidic protein and cystatin is down regulated at mid-lactation in the red kangaroo. Comp Biochem Physiol 129:851-858 (2001).
22. Piotte CP, Grigor MR: A novel marsupial protein expressed by the mammary gland only during the early lactation and related to the Kunitz proteinase inhibitors. Arch Biochem Biophys 330:59-64 (1996).
23. Ranganathan S, Simpson KJ, Shaw DC, et al: The whey acidic protein family: a new signature motif and three-dimensional structure by comparative modeling. J Mol Graph Model 17:106-113 (1999).
24. Ren J, Stuart DI, Acharya KR: Alpha-lactalbumin possesses a distinct zinc binding site. J Biol Chem 268:19292-19298 (1993).
25. Rens W, O'Brien PC, Yang F, et al: Karyotype relationships between distantly related marsupials from South America and Australia. Chromosome Res 9:301-308 (2001).
26. Rival-Gervier S, Thepot D, Jolivet G, et al: Pig whey acidic protein gene is surrounded by two ubiquitously expressed genes. Biochim Biophys Acta 1627:7-14 (2003).
27. Sambrook J, Fritsch EF, Maniatis T: Molecular Cloning, a Laboratory Manual (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor 1989).
28. Selwood L, Woolley PA: A timetable of embryonic development, and ovarian and uterine changes during pregnancy, in the stripe-faced dunnart, Sminthopsis macroura (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae). J Reprod Fertil 91:213-227 (1991).
29. Simpson KJ, Bird P, Shaw D, et al: Molecular characterisation and hormone dependent expression of the porcine whey acidic protein gene. J Mol Endocrinol 20:27-35 (1998a).
30. Simpson K, Shaw D, Nicholas KR: Developmentally regulated expression of a putative protease inhibitor gene in the lactating mammary gland of the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii. Comp Biochem Physiol 120:535-541 (1998b).
31. Simpson KJ, Ranganathan S, Fisher JA, et al: The gene for a novel member of the whey acidic protein family encodes three four-disulfide core domains and is asynchronously expressed during lactation. J Biol Chem 275:23074-23081 (2000).
32. Toder R, Wilcox SA, Smithwick M, et al: The human/mouse imprinted genes IGF2, H19, SNRPN and ZNF127 map to two conserved autosomal clusters in a marsupial. Chromosome Res 4:295-300 (1996).
33. Triplett AA, Sakamoto K, Matulka LA, et al: Expression of the whey acidic protein (Wap) is necessary for adequate nourishment of the offspring but not functional differentiation of mammary epithelial cells. Genesis 43:1-11 (2005).
34. Trott JF, Simpson KJ, Moyle RL, et al: Maternal regulation of milk composition, milk production, and pouch young development during lactation in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Biol Reprod 68:929-936 (2003).
35. Tyndale-Biscoe CH, Janssens PA: Introduction, in Tyndale-Biscoe CH, Janssens PA (eds): The Developing Marsupial: Models for Biomedical Research, p 1 (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 1988).
36. Woodburne MO, Rich TH, Springer MS: The evolution of tribospheny and the antiquity of mammalian clades. Mol Phylogenet Evol 28:360-385 (2003).