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Zou, S.

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Regulation by HSP70/90 in the different tissues and testis development of male cattle (Cattle-yak and Yak)

HSP70/90 play important role in testis develop and spermatozoa regulation, but the contact of HSP70/90 with infertility in cattle is unclear. Here, we focus on male cattle-yak and yak, which to investigate the expression and localization of HSP70/90 in different tissues, and explore the influence of HSP70/90 to infertility. In our study, a total of 54 cattle (24 cattle-yak and 30 yak) were examined. The HSP90 mRNA of cattle-yak was cloned first and found amino acid variation in HSP90, which led to difference at protein spatial structure compare with yak. To investigate whether the expression of HSP70/90 mRNA and protein are different in cattle-yak and yak, we used real-time quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR) and Western blot (WB) to examine them. We found that the expression level of HSP70/90 mRNA and protein are disparity in different tissues and testis development stages, and obviously high expression was observed in testicle during juvenile and adult, Moreover, it s interestingly in which the HSP70 expression is significant high in yak whereas HSP90 in cattle-yak (P<0.01). On this bases, we detect the location of HSP70/90 in testis by immunohistochemical (IHC) and immunofluorescence (IF), the results demonstrate that HSP70/90 were located in the epithelial cells, spermatogenic cells and mesenchymal cells. In summary, our study proved the expression of HSP70/90 are different in tissues, and the expression of HSP90 is obviously high in testis of cattle-yak, which propose that the infertility of cattle-yak may cause from up-regulating of HSP90.

biochemistry

Ammonium Pretreatment and Addition Improve Stability of Environmental Parameters and Biogas Production under Anaerobic Co-digestion of Rice Straw and Dairy Manure

This paper optimized the anaerobic digestion (AD) pretreatment process, identified the relationship between stability of environmental factors and biogas production under ammonium hydroxide (NH3{middle dot}H2O) pretreatment and analyzed the reason of NH3{middle dot}H2O pretreatment to increase biogas production. Variable coefficients (CVs) of environmental factors were calculated to study the stability of environmental factors during AD process. The effect of initial AD environment factors on the stability of environmental factors during AD process was analyzed by redundancy analysis. Path analysis was used to analyze the response relationship the stability of environmental factors between and total biogas production (TBP). Results showed that pretreatment at 8% for 4 days, the TBP produced the highest value (302.5mL/g TS) and significantly higher than the other values (P < 0.01). NH3{middle dot}H2O pretreatment had effect on the initial AD environment factors and the environment factors during AD process. Under the NH3{middle dot}H2O pretreatment conditions, the stability of environment factors during AD process was affected by initial AD environment factors, while they had direct and indirect influences on the TBP. This research concluded that NH3{middle dot}H2O pretreatment improved TBP via changing the initial environment of AD and the stability of environment factors during AD process, as well as the response relationship among initial AD environment factors and the stability of environment factors during AD process and biogas production, the changes improved the stability of environmental factors and made the environment more suitable for AD.

bioengineering