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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2018, Vol. 17 Issue (08): 1843-1851    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(17)61894-X
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iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic analysis reveals key pathways responsible for scurs in sheep (Ovis aries)
HE Xiao-hong1, 2*, CHEN Xiao-fei1, 2, 3*, PU Ya-bin1, 2, GUAN Wei-jun1, 2, SONG Shen1, 2, ZHAO Qian-jun1, 2, LI Xiang-chen1, 2, JIANG Lin1, 2, MA Yue-hui1, 2 
1 Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P.R.China
2 CAAS-ILRI Joint Laboratory on Livestock and Forage Genetic Resources, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, P.R.China
3 Institute of Animal Science, Enshi Autonomous Prefecture Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Enshi 445000, P.R.China
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摘要  Received  24 October, 2017    Accepted  29 January, 2018


Abstract  
Scurs is a horn phenotype that exhibits as small corneous structures on the skull due to the deformed development of horn tissues.  Previous genome-wide association analysis of scurs in Soay sheep showed a significant association to the polled locus, relaxin-like receptor 2 (RXFP2).  However, the molecular mechanism underlying the development of scurs remains largely unknown.  In the present study, we performed an iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic analysis of horn tissues from both scurs and normal two-horned and four-horned individuals among Altay sheep to identify the differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) responsible for the scurs phenotype.  In total, 232 proteins showed significant differential expression, and the most significant Gene ontology categories were the adhesion processes (biological adhesion (P=4.07×10–17) and cell adhesion (P=3.7×10–16)), multicellular organismal process (single-multicellular organism process (P=2.06×10–11) and multicellular organismal process (P=2.29×10–11)) and extracellular processes (extracellular matrix organization (P=4.77×10–16) and extracellular structure organization (P=4.93×10–16)).  Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes (KEGG) analysis showed that extracellular matrix (ECM)-receptor interactions and focal adhesion pathways were the most significant pathways.  This finding is consistent with the reduced formation of extracellular matrix in scurs and the development of deformed horn tissues.  Our study helps to elucidate the inheritance pattern of sheep horn traits from the perspectives of downstream expressed proteins.
 
Keywords:  scurs        sheep        iTRAQ        horn development        ECM-receptor interaction pathway  
Received: 24 October 2017   Accepted:
Fund: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (31402033, U1603232), the Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Institute of Animal Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2017ywf-zd-11, Y2017JC03), and the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of China (ASTIP-IAS01).
Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence JIANG Lin, E-mail: jianglin@caas.cn; MA Yue-hui, Tel/Fax: +86-10-62813463, E-mail: yuehui.ma@263.net    
About author:  HE Xiao-hong, E-mail: hexiaohong@caas.cn; * These authors contributed equally to this study.

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HE Xiao-hong, CHEN Xiao-fei, PU Ya-bin, GUAN Wei-jun, SONG Shen, ZHAO Qian-jun, LI Xiangchen, JIANG Lin, MA Yue-hui. 2018. iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic analysis reveals key pathways responsible for scurs in sheep (Ovis aries). Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 17(08): 1843-1851.

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