Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Massive detection of cryptic recessive genetic defects in cattle mining millions of life histories
doi: 10.1101/2023.09.22.558782
Figure Lengend Snippet: a top) Modeling of the 3D structure of the ITGα4β7 heterodimer using crystallography in humans, and evaluation of the consequences of glycine to serine substitution at amino acid position 283 in humans (375 in bovine). The purple dashed lines illustrate the clash with a predicted 0.8 kcal/mol reduction in binding affinity (see Methods for further details). a, down) Weblogo representation of multiple protein alignments showing perfect conservation of the mutated glycine residue among 128 vertebrate ITGB7 orthologs (Supplementary Table 19). b) Schematic representation of the ITGα4β7-mediated transmigration of T lymphocytes (T cells) from blood vessels to the lamina propria of the jejunum, and details of the sampling area for subsequent analyses. c) Dosage of α4β7pos CD45ROpos memory CD4 T cells in the lamina propria of the jejunum and of immune cells in the circulating blood of homozygous wild-type (0) and mutant (2) heifers (Supplementary Tables 20,21). ***: Student t test p-value ≤0.001. d) Pictures of 247-day-old wild-type and 245-day-old homozygous mutant heifers, illustrating growth retardation in the latter; and analysis of average daily gain in 13 cases and 13 matched control heifers aged six months to two years (Supplementary Table 22). e) Origin of H5P25 haplotype and ITGB7 mutation (see Supplementary Table 23 for details). f) Proportion of animals that died, were slaughtered, or are still alive at 2 years of age for each combination of ITGB7 variant genotype and H5P25 status. Different symbols indicate significant differences (Fisher p-value ≤0.01) between genotype-haplotype combinations in the proportions of animals within each of the three categories (Supplementary Table 24). g) Analysis of age at first AI for the three genotypes at the ITGB7 variant (Supplementary Table 25). ***: Student t test p-value ≤0.001. Effects of heterozygosity and homozygosity at the ITGB7 variant on 14 recorded traits (Supplementary Table 26). Only significant effects are shown (Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted Student’s t-test p-value ≤ 0.01). i) Trimester repartition of the proportion of females that died or were slaughtered before reaching six years of age by genotype group at the ITGB7 substitution (Supplementary Table 27).
Article Snippet: The antibodies used were: CD4-PB (clone CC8, Biorad, Hercules, U.S), CD45-FITC (clone 1.11.32, Biorad), CD45R0-A647 (clone IL-A116, Biorad), Beta7-RPE (clone FIB27, Biolegend, San Diego, U.S.), Alpha4-PECy7 (clone 9F10, Biolegend).
Techniques: Binding Assay, Residue, Transmigration Assay, Sampling, Mutagenesis, Variant Assay