Kafkas Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi 2018 , Vol 24 , Issue 3
Analysis of Expressed Genes in Normal and Tumoral Mammary Gland Tissue of the Terrier Dog
Nehir OZDEMIR OZGENTURK1, Zehra OMEROGLU ULU1, Salih ULU1, Merve CELIK1, Burcin TELLIOGLU1, Funda YILDIRIM2, Iraz AKIS AKAD3, Aydın GUREL2, Cemal UN4, Kemal Ozdem OZTABAK3
1Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Art and Science, Yıldız Technical University, TR- 34220 Istanbul - TURKEY
2Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University, TR-34320 Avcilar, Istanbul - TURKEY
3Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University, TR-34320 Avcilar, Istanbul - TURKEY
4Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Science, Ege University, TR-35100 Bornova, Izmir - TURKEY
DOI : 10.9775/kvfd.2017.18964 Mammary gland tumor is the most common type of tumor in female dogs. Data on genes that are involved in tumorigenesis and mechanism of tumor development are insufficient. Comparative studies have been conducted in order to see if tumorigenesis studies in the dog could be a model for human mammary gland tumors. In this study, we constructed two different cDNA libraries from mammary tissue, which were collected from a normal mammary tissue of a healthy Terrier dog and a tumoral mammary tissue of a sick dog. A total 2304 colonies which are randomly picked out from the two libraries were sequenced for developing a dog mammary gland ESTs collection. Raw EST data were analyzed with Phred/Phrap programs and readable EST sequences were assembled with the CAP3 program. All of EST sequences were grouped into 45 contig and 2203 singletons. Putative functions of all unique sequences were designated by NCBI BLAST based on gene homology and annotated by BLAST2GO. The results of this study are a very valuable resource for functional genome studies of the dogs. Keywords : Terrier, Dog, Breast cancer, EST, cDNA library