title: Cloning and characterization of chicken adipocyte fatty acid binding protein gene.
abstract: Fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs) are members of a superfamily of lipid-binding proteins and occur intracellularly in vertebrates and invertebrates. This study was designed to clone and characterize the adipocyte fatty acid binding protein (A-FABP) gene in the chicken. PCR primers were designed according to mammalian A-FABP gene sequence to amplify partial cDNA of A-FABP gene from chicken adipose tissues, and the full length of the gene was cloned by 5'RACE and 3'RACE. Analysis of sequence showed that the cDNA of the chicken A-FABP gene was 74 and 73% homologous with porcine and human A-FABP gene, respectively. The similarity was 77, 28, and 23% at the predicted amino acid level with human A-FABP, human L-FABP, and human I-FABP, respectively. RT-PCR and Northern blot analysis indicated that the chicken A-FABP gene, similar to that of the mammal, is only expressed in fat tissues. This is the first report to identify and characterize A-FABP gene in the chicken.
authors.affiliation: College of Animal Science and Technology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, PR China.
authors.forename: Qigui
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Zhiliang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Yuxiang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D017667:Adipocytes / Q000737:chemistry; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics*; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; C493319:FABP1 protein, human; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins