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Expression of alpha-lactalbumin, alpha-S1-casein, and lactoferrin genes is heterogeneous in sheep and cattle mammary tissue
AJ Molenaar, SR Davis and RJ Wilkins
Ruakura Agricultural Centre, MAF, Hamilton, New Zealand.
We used 35S-labeled cRNA probes to localize the sites of alpha- lactalbumin, alpha-S1-casein, and lactoferrin mRNA synthesis in sheep and forcibly weaned cattle mammary tissue. Expression of alpha- lactalbumin was absent in three of four "virgin" glands studied, present in some alveoli of "pregnant" glands but not in others, despite a similar histological appearance. In the early lactating gland, expression was high in those alveoli with few fat globules in their cells and lumen and was absent in alveoli with abundant fat globules. These observations suggest either that alpha-lactalbumin gene expression is linked to the long-term secretory activity of cells and falls once cells are resting or regressing, or that there are cyclical variations in expression, or that in the lactating gland some groups of epithelial cells are synthesizing alpha-lactalbumin and some are synthesizing fat. Expression patterns of alpha-S1-casein were similar to those of alpha-lactalbumin. Lactoferrin, in contrast, was expressed almost exclusively in the "fatty alveoli" of both species. Our results show that dramatic variations in milk gene expression can occur throughout the mammary gland of sheep and cattle and that at no stage of pregnancy, lactation, or involution can the gland be considered metabolically homogeneous.
Volume 40,
Issue 5,
pp. 611-618,
05/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by The Histochemical Society
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