title: Molecular cloning and tissue-specific expression of intestinal-type fatty acid binding protein in porcine.
abstract: The intestinal fatty acid-binding protein (I-FABP) shows binding specificity for long-chain fatty acids and is proposed to be involved in the uptake of dietary fatty acids and their intracellular transport. In this study, the full-length cDNA of I-FABP was cloned from pig intestine by homology cloning approach combined with 3' and 5' RACE. Sequence analysis and bioinformatics study showed that this cDNA contained 614 nucleotides, with a 399 bp open reading frame (ORF) flanked by a 43 bp 5' UTR and a 172 bp 3' UTR. The encoded 132 amino acids of pig I-FABP with a molecular weight of approximately 15 kDa shared a high sequence identity of 68%-85% with those of other species. In addition, the phylogenetical analysis also indicated that the pig I-FABP was in the same branch with those of other species. The tissue-specific expression of pig I-FABP was measured by Northern hybridization and semi-quantitative RT-PCR. The results demonstrated that pig I-FABP mRNA was extensively present in various tissues, but I-FABP transcript of approximately 620 bp was more abundant in intestine than in other tissues.
authors.affiliation: College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an 625014, China.
authors.forename: Yan-Zhi
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Xue-Wei
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010802:Phylogeny; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D034421:Sus scrofa / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger