Genome-wide identification and expression profiling analysis of Wnt family genes affecting adipocyte differentiation in cattle.

ABSTRACT: The Wnt family features conserved glycoproteins that play roles in tissue regeneration, animal development and cell proliferation and differentiation. For its functional diversity and importance, this family has been studied in several species, but not in the Bovinae. Herein we identified 19 Wnt genes in cattle, and seven other species of Bovinae, and described their corresponding protein properties. Phylogenetic analysis clustered the 149 Wnt proteins in Bovinae, and 38 Wnt proteins from the human and mouse into 12 major clades. Wnt genes from the same subfamilies shared similar protein motif compositions and exon-intron patterns. Chromosomal distribution and collinearity analysis revealed that they were conservative in cattle and five species of Bovinae. RNA-seq data analysis indicated t

SUBMITTER: Pan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8752766 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature