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ZEBRAFISH
卷 11, 期 3, 页码 265-274出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/zeb.2014.0974
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- Fund for Independent Innovation on Agriculture Science and Technology of Jiangsu Province [CX(11)1036]
- Graduate Student Research and Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province [CXZZ12_0048]
- Scientific Research Foundation of Graduate School of Nanjing University [2013CW10]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31171434]
Myostatin (Mstn), a member of the transforming growth factor beta superfamily, plays an inhibiting role in mammalian muscle growth. Mammals like human, cattle, mouse, sheep, and dog carrying null alleles of Mstn display a double-muscle phenotype. Mstn is conserved in fish; however, little is known whether the fish with mutated mstn display a similar phenotype to mammals because of the lack of mutant fish with mstn null alleles. Previously, we knocked out one of the duplicated copies of myostatin gene (mstna) in yellow catfish using zinc-finger nucleases. In this study, we report the identification of the second myostatin gene (mstnb) and knockout of mstnb in yellow catfish. The gene comprises three exons. It is predicted to encode 373 amino acid residues. The predicted protein exhibits 59.3% identity with yellow catfish Mstna and 57.3% identity with human MSTN. Employing TALEN (transcription activator-like effector nucleases) technology, we obtained two founders (from four randomly selected founders) of yellow catfish carrying the mutated mstnb gene in their germ cells. Totally, six mutated alleles of mstnb were obtained from the founders. Among the six alleles, four are non-frameshift and two are frameshift mutation. The frameshift mutated alleles include mstnb(nju22), an 8 bp deletion, and mstnb(nju24), a complex type of mutation comprising a 7 bp deletion and a 12 bp insertion. They are predicted to encode function null Mstnb. Our results will help to understand the roles of mstn genes in fish growth.
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