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Poultry Science, Vol 82, Issue 1, 54-61
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Cloning of cDNA encoding the nuclear form of chicken sterol response element binding protein-2 (SREBP-2), chromosomal localization, and tissue expression of chicken SREBP-1 and -2 genes

S Assaf, D Hazard, F Pitel, M Morisson, M Alizadeh, F Gondret, C Diot, A Vignal, M Douaire, and S Lagarrigue

Unite Mixte de Recherche de Genetique Animale, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique-Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique, 65 rue de Saint-Brieuc, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France.

Sterol regulatory element binding protein-1 and -2 (SREBP-1 and -2) are key transcription factors involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol and fatty adds. The SREBP have mainly been studied in rodents in which lipogenesis is regulated in both liver and adipose tissue. There is, however, a paucity of information on birds, in which lipogenesis occurs essentially in the liver as in humans. As a prelude to the investigation of the role of SREBP in lipid metabolism regulation in chicken, we sequenced the cDNA, encoding the mature nuclear form of chicken SREBP-2 protein, mapped SREBP-1 and -2 genes and studied their tissue expressions. The predicted chicken SREBP-2 amino acid sequence shows a 77 to 79% identity with human, mouse, and hamster homologues, with a nearly perfect conservation in all the important functional motifs, basic, helix-loop-helix, and leucine zipper (bHLH-Zip) region as well as cleavage sites. As in the human genome, SREBP-1 and SREBP-2 chicken genes are located on two separate chromosomes, respectively microchromosome 14 and macrochromosome 1. Tissue expression data show that SREBP-1 and SREBP-2 are expressed in a wide variety of tissues in chicken. However, unlike SREBP-2, SREBP-1 is expressed preferentially in the liver and uropygial gland, suggesting an important role of SREBP-1 in the regulation of lipogenesis in avian species.


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