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Genet Mol Res ; 12(4): 6228-39, 2013 Dec 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24338418

RESUMO

Bovine mastitis is the most common and costly disease of dairy cattle. Cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) is closely related to the immune response in mastitis. We quantified promoter CpG methylation levels of the CD4 gene in Chinese Holsteins with clinical mastitis (CM) and in healthy controls; these levels were quantitatively detected with bisulfite pyrosequencing assays and confirmed by cloning sequencing. We found that the bovine CD4 promoter had 16% more methyl groups in the cows with CM (75.0 ± 5.8%) compared to the controls (59.0 ± 8.5%). The decreased expression level of CD4 in CM cows may be downregulated by the increased DNA methylation levels in the CD4 promoter. Two-dimensional hierarchical clustering analyses showed large differences in promoter CD4 methylation between mastitic and healthy cows; the dendrogram clearly distinguished the cows with clinical mastitis from healthy controls based on methylation levels. The DNA methylation level of the CD4 gene was strongly influenced by mastitis status in all comparisons. We suggest that the DNA methylation level of the CD4 promoter can be used as a molecular marker for clinical mastitis in dairy cows.


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Antígenos CD4/genética , Metilação de DNA , Leucócitos Mononucleares/metabolismo , Mastite Bovina/genética , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Animais , Sequência de Bases , Bovinos , Ilhas de CpG , Epigênese Genética , Feminino , Estudos de Associação Genética , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Transcrição Gênica
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