Transcriptional regulatory mechanism of NR2F2 and ZNF423 in avian preadipocyte differentiation.

Autor: Li X; National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MARA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China., Sun D; National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MARA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China., Wang Z; College of Life Sciences, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030801, China., Zhao Q; National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MARA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China., Liu Y; National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MARA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China., Hou Z; National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding and MARA Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China. Electronic address: zchou@cau.edu.cn.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Gene [Gene] 2024 Mar 01; Vol. 897, pp. 148106. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 20.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2023.148106
Abstrakt: In the poultry industry, excessive abdominal fat deposition is not conducive to meat quality. Therefore, selection for optimal fat content levels in poultry has become a major breeding goal. We previously constructed NR2F2 overexpression (NR2F2 OE ) and knockout (NR2F2 Δ/Δ/83-125aa ) cell lines using Piggybac and CRISPR/Cas9 techniques, and confirmed that the transcription factor NR2F2 can significantly inhibit the differentiation of avian preadipocytes. In this study, we identified a downstream gene ZNF423 regulated by NR2F2, which is also involved in regulating avian fat deposition. First, we performed transcriptome analysis of the NR2F2-edited lines, which has been proven to be an inhibitor of avian fat deposition in our previous studies. Our findings revealed that NR2F2 affects a series of candidate regulators related to adipogenesis. Among these, we focused on ZNF423, which was significantly down-regulated in the NR2F2 OE cell line and up-regulated in the NR2F2 Δ/Δ/83-125aa cell line. Next, dual luciferase reporter assay results showed that the DNA-binding domain (DBD Δ72-143aa ) of transcription factor NR2F2 may negatively affect the expression of downstream target gene ZNF423 by binding to its distal promoter region (-2356 to -2346). Moreover, we constructed a function analytical model and found that overexpression of ZNF423 significantly facilitated the differentiation of adipocytes in immortalized chicken preadipocytes (ICP1). Consistent with these findings, global transcriptome analysis of the ZNF423-overexpressed cell line (ZNF423 OE ) further demonstrated that the process of adipogenesis was significantly enriched. These results indicate that ZNF423 is a positive regulator of avian adipocyte differentiation. Overexpression of ZNF423 in the NR2F2 OE cell line compensated for the inhibition of fat deposition phenotype, further suggesting that ZNF423 is a downstream target gene of NR2F2. These findings uncover a novel function of ZNF423 in avian adipocyte differentiation and analyzed the transcriptional regulation by its upstream transcription factor NR2F2. Additionally, we identified a list of functional candidate genes, providing important insights for further research on the mechanism of avian fat deposition.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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