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1 Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706
Multiparous Holstein cows were infected in two quarters by intramammary infusion with Streptococcus agalactiae and slaughtered approximately 36 h later. Mammary tissue was removed from the infected quarters, uninfected contralateral quarters, and from pair-slaughtered uninfected controls; the tissue was frozen in liquid nitrogen. The RNA was extracted, and Northern blot analysis was performed for a variety of growth factors, stress-induced genes, milk protein genes, and control genes. Infection increased levels of mRNA coding for heat shock proteins 89
, 89ß, 70, 60, and 27. Simultaneously, concentrations of -lactalbumin and casein mRNA decreased; -lactalbumin mRNA showed a greater decline. The mRNA for several growth factors, including acidic fibroblast growth factor, basic fibroblast growth factor, epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factor-, IGF-I, and IGF-II, were also increased as was the apoptosis marker, testosterone-repressed prostate mucin-2. Concentrations of mRNA for controls, ß-actin, and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase were unaffected. These results indicate that mastitis induces changes in the levels of mRNA encoding for a variety of peptide growth factors. Such changes in growth factors could be important in a variety of processes that occur during infection, such as protection against injury or tissue repair and recovery processes.
Key Words: bovine • gene expression • growth factor • mastitis
Submitted on May 14, 1996
Accepted on March 10, 1997
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