Expression profile of caseins, estrogen and prolactin receptors in mammary glands of dairy ewes

Italian Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 285-289

  Colitti, Monica ^a   Pulina, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dairy sheep; Estrogen receptors; Expression of casein; Mammary gland; Prolactin receptors

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 78449302860     PISSN: 15944077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/ijas.2010.e55     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Akers, R.M., 2002. Mammary development, anatomy and physiology. In: Iowa State Press (eds.) Lactation and the mammary gland. Blackwell Publishing Co., Ames, IA, USA, pp 45-65.
2. Battersby, S., Anderson, T.J., 1988. Proliferative and secretory activity in the pregnant and lactating human breast. Virchows Arch. A. 413:189-196.
3. Bernier-Dodier, P., Delbecchi, L., Wagner, G.F., Talbot, B.G., Lacasse, P., 2010. Effect of milking frequency on lactation persistency and mammary gland remodeling in midlactation cows. J. Dairy Sci. 93:555-564.
4. Bevilacqua, C., Helbling, J.C., Miranda, G., Martin, P., 2006. Translational efficiency of casein transcripts in the mammary tissue of lactating ruminants. Reprod. Nutr. Dev. 5:567-578.
5. Bignon, C., Binard, N., Ormandy, C., Schuler, L.A., Kelly, P.A., Djiane, J., 1997. Long and short forms of the ovine prolactin receptor: cDNA cloning and genomic analysis reveal that the two forms arise by different alternative splicing mechanisms in ruminants and in rodents. J. Mol. Endocrinol. 19:109-120.
6. Bole-Feysot, C., Goffin, V., Edery, M., Binart, N., Kelly, P.A., 1998. Prolactin (PRL) and its receptor: actions signal transduction pathways and phenotypes observed in PRL receptor knockout mice. Endocr. Rev. 19:225-268.
7. Bustin, S.A., 2000. Absolute quantification of m-RNA using real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assays. J. Mol. Endocrinol. 25:169-193.
8. Cassy, S., Charlier, M., Belair, L., Guillomot, M., Charron, G., Bloch, B., Djiane, J., 1998. Developmental expression and localization of the prolactin receptor (PRL-R) gene in ewe mammary gland during pregnancy and lactation: estimation of the ratio of the two forms of PRL-R messenger ribonucleic acid. Biol. Reprod. 58:1290-1296.
9. Chang, G., Li, Y., Omoto, Y., Wang, Y., Berg, T., Nord, M., Vihko, P., Warner, M., Piao, Y.S., Gustafsson, J.A., 2005. Differential regulation of estrogen receptor (ER)α and ERβ in primate mammary gland. J. Clin. Endocr. Metab. 90:435-444.
10. Clarke, R.B., Howell, A., Potten, C.S., Anderson, E., 1997. Dissociation between steroid receptor expression and cell proliferation in the human breast. Cancer Res. 57: 4987-4991.
11. Colitti, M., Farinacci, M., 2009. Cell turnover and gene activities in sheep mammary glands prior to lambing to involution. Tissue Cell 41:326-333.
12. Dimauro, C., Cappio-Borlino, A., Macciotta, N.P.P., Pulina, G., 2007. Use of a computer-aided design to develop a stress simulation model for lactating dairy sheep. Livest. Sci.106:200-209.
13. Feng, Y., Manka, D., Wagner, K-U., Khan, S.A., 2007. Estrogen receptor-α expression in the mammary epithelium is required for ductal and alveolar morphogenesis in mice. P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104:14718-14723.
14. Groner, B., 2002. Transcription factor regulation in mammary epithelial cells. Domest. Anim. Endocrin. 23:25-32.
15. Hall, J. M., McDonnell D. P., 1999. The estrogen receptor beta-isoform (ERbeta) of the human estrogen receptor modulates ERalpha transcriptional activity and is a key regulator of the cellular response to estrogens and antiestrogens. Endocrinology 140:5566-5578.
16. Italian Regulation, 1992. Application of the Council Directive (EEC) No. 86/609 regarding the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes. LD 116/1992. In: Official Journal No. 294, 15/12/1992, pp 5-24.
17. John, S., Vinkemeier, U., Soldaini, E., Darnell, J.E., Leonard, W.J., 1999. The significance of tetramerization in promoter recruitment by Stat5. Mol. Cell. Biol. 19:1910-1918.
18. Kazansky, A.V., Raught, B., Lindsey, S.M., Wang, Y.F., Rosen, J.M., 1995. Regulation of mammary gland factor/Stat5a during mammary gland development. Mol. Endocrinol. 9:1598-1609.
19. Kelly, P.A., Djiane, J, Postel-Vinay, M.C., Edery, M., 1991. The prolactin/growth hormone receptor family. Endocr. Rev. 12:235-251.
20. Liu, X., Gallego, M.I., Smith, G.H., Robinson, G.W., Hennighausen, L. 1998. Functional rescue of Stat5a-null mammary tissue through the activation of compensating signals including Stat5b. Cell Growth Differ. 9:795-803.
21. Miranda, G., Mahé, M.F., Leroux, C., Martin, P., 2004. Proteomic tools to characterize the protein fraction of Equidae milk. Proteomics 4: 2496-2509.
22. Nevalainen, M.T., Xie, J., Bubendorf, L., Wagner, K.U., Rui, H., 2002. Basal activation of transcription factor signal transducer and activator of transcription (Stat5) in nonpregnant mouse and human breast epithelium. Mol. Endocrinol. 16:1108-1124.
23. Ormandy, C.J., Camus, A., Barra, J., Damotte, J.D., Lucas, B., Buteau, H., Edery, M., Brousse, N., Babinet, C., Binart, N., Kelly, P.A., 1997. Null mutation of the prolactin recetor gene producesmultiple reproductive defects in the mouse. Genes Dev. 11:167-178.
24. Pfaffl, M.W., 2001. A new mathematical model for relative quantification in real-time RTPCR. Nucleic Acids Res. 29:e45.
25. Potten, C.S., Loeffler, M., 1990. Stem cells: attributes, cycles, spirals, pitfalls and uncertainties: lesson for and from the crypt. Development 110:1001-1020.
26. Pulina, G., Colitti, M., Farinacci, M., Mazzette, A., Canu, G., Castanares Castro, N., Nudda, A., 2009. The evolution of mammary glands at different stages in Sarda dairy ewes: preliminary results. Ital. J. Anim. Sci. 8 (suppl. 2):652-654.
27. Pulina, G., Nudda, A., 2004. Milk production. In: G. Pulina (ed.) Dairy sheep nutrition. CAB International, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp 1-12.
28. Pulina, G., Nudda, A., Macciotta, N.P.P., Battacone, G., Rassu, S.P.G., Cannas, A., 2007. Non-nutritional factors affecting lactation persistency in dairy ewes: a review. Ital. J. Anim. Sci. 6:115-141.
29. Robinson, T.L., Sutherland, L.A., Sutherland, J., 2007. Validation of candidate bovine reference genes for use with real-time PCR. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 115:160-165.
30. Rozen, S., Skaletsky, H.J., 2000. Primer3 on the WWW for general users and for biologist programmers. In: S. Krawetz and S. Misener (eds.) Bioinformatics Methods and Protocols: Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, USA, pp 365-386.
31. Schams, D., Kohlenberg, S., Amselgruber, W., Berisha, B., Pfaffl, M.W., Sinowatz F., 2003. Expression and localisation of oestrogen and progesterone receptors in the bovine mammary gland during development, function and involution. J. Endocr. 177: 305-317.
32. Schuler, L.A., Nagel, R.J., Gao, J., Horseman, N.D., Kessler, M.A., 1997. Prolactin receptor heterogeneity in bovine fetal and maternal tissues. Endocrinology 138:3187-3194.
33. Shirota, M., Banville, D., Ali, S., Jolicoeur, C., Boutin, J.M., Edery, M., Djiane, J., Kelly, P.A., 1990. Expression of two forms of prolactin receptor in rat ovary and liver. Mol. Endocrinol. 4:1136-1143.
34. Speirs, V., Skliris, G.P., Burdall, S.E., Carder, P.J., 2002. Distinct expression patterns of ERα and ERβ in normal human mammary gland. J. Clin. Pathol. 55:371-374.
35. SPSS, 1997. Advanced Statistics 7.5. SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA.
36. Stefanon, B., Colitti, M., Gabai, G., Knight, C.H., Wilde, C.J., 2002. Mammary apoptosis and lactation persistency in dairy animals. J. Dairy Res. 69:37-52.
37. Streuli, C.H., Schmidhauser, C., Bailey, N., Yurchenco, P., Skubitz, A.P.N., Roskelley, C., Bissel M.J., 1995. Laminin mediates tissue-specific gene expression in mammary epithelia. J. Cell Biol. 129:591-603.
38. Suzuki, R., Atherton, A.J., O'Hare, M.J., Entwistle, A., Lakhani, S.R., Clarke, C., 2000. Proliferation and differentiation in the human breast during pregnancy. Differentiation 66:106-115.
39. Tonner, E., Allan, G.J., Flint, D.J., 2000. Hormonal control of plasmin and tissuetype plasminogen activator activity in rat milk during involution of the mammary gland. J. Endocrinol. 167:265-273.
40. Xu, R., Nelson, C.M., Muschler, J.L., Veiseh, M., Vonderhaar, B.K., Bissell, M.J. 2009. Sustained activation of STAT5 is essential for chromatin remodeling and maintenance of mammary-specific function. J. Cell Biol. 184:57-66.