Project description:To investigate the impact of adding succinate to the diet on the production performance, meat quality, muscle fiber characteristics, and transcriptome of the longissimus dorsi muscle in Tan sheep, 36 Tan sheep were selected and fed with different levels of succinate (0%, 0.5%, 1.0%, 2.0%) for a 60-day trial period. Overall, compared to the control group, the addition of succinate to the diet improved the production performance, slaughter performance, and meat quality of Tan sheep. It significantly increased dry matter intake, carcass weight, eye muscle area, and the GR value while significantly reducing the shear force and cooking loss of the longissimus dorsi muscle (p<0.05). Furthermore, the addition of succinate to the diet altered the muscle fiber characteristics of the longissimus dorsi muscle in Tan sheep, significantly increasing the fiber diameter and cross-sectional area of type I and type IIa muscle fibers (p<0.05). The addition of 1.0% succinate to the diet altered the transcriptome of the longissimus dorsi muscle in Tan sheep, with 741 differentially expressed genes identified compared to the control group. These differentially expressed genes were involved in various pathways related to lipid metabolism, energy metabolism, and muscle development, such as insulin secretion, insulin resistance, cAMP signaling pathway, PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, and FoxO signaling, among others. In summary, succinate plays a crucial role in regulating energy metabolism, protein deposition, and glucose and lipid metabolism homeostasis in Tan sheep through insulin signaling pathways and the interaction of muscle cell factors. By modulating the expression of relevant genes, succinate improves the muscle fiber characteristics of Tan sheep, thereby enhancing production performance and meat quality.
2023-11-26 | GSE248353 | GEO
Project description:Transcriptome data of sheep longissimus dorsi muscle
Project description:Purpose: The goals of this study are to determine effects of castration on gene expression in longissimus dorsi muscle by comparing transcriptome profiles and to search candidate genes related with beef quality like flavor, tenderness, juiciness and fat deposition Methods: longissimus dorsi muscle mRNA profiles of 3 bulls and 3 steers of Korean cattles were generated by RNA sequencing using Illumina NextSeq 500. After quality checking, Tophat2 software was used for read mapping, and EdgeR was used to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between bulls and steers. Gene ontology pathway analysis on DEGs was conducted with DAVID tool for categorization of DEGs. Results: Using an optimized data analysis workflow, we mapped about 58 million sequence reads per sample to the bovine genome (build UMD3.1) and identified 18,027 expressed genes in the longissimus dorsi muscle of bulls and steers with TopHat2 workflow. RNA-seq data confirmed 1,146 differentially expressed genes (adjusted p-value, FDR <0.05). Conclusions: We comparatively analyzed the transcriptome profile from longissimus dorsi muscle of bulls and steers of Korean cattles using NGS and identified DEGs between bulls and steers. The functional annotation analysis of DEGs found that transcriptome profile difference in longissimus dorsi muscle by castration.
Project description:Texel and Ujumqin sheep show obvious differences in muscle and fat growth, so they are ideal models not only to understand the molecular mechanism in prenatal skeletal muscle development, but to identify the potential target genes of myostatin. To elucidate the phenotypic variation between the two sheep breeds and the dynamic characteristics of gene expression in skeletal muscle during the development, we examined the development of skeletal muscle in transcriptome-wide level at 70, 85,100,120 , 135 days post coitus (dpc),birth, 1 month and 2 month. Using the specialized and standardized sheep transcriptome-wide oligo DNA microarray (Agilent), we analyzed the transcriptomic profiles of longissmuss dorsi muscle from fetuses of Texel and Ujumqin sheep. We characterized dynamic transcriptome-wide profiles that accompany the prenatal skeletal muscle and fat development in Texel and Ujumqin sheep respectively, and compared the difference in profiles of gene expression between the two sheep breeds at the same developmental stage.Some potential myostatin target genes and other genes controlling the growth of skeletal muscle and adipose were identified for further examinations. Our findings not only contribute to understand the molecular mechanism of prenatal skeletal muscle development in large precocial species, but also provide some clues for human myopathy and obesity at prenatal stages. Moreover, we also can identify putative candidate genes for meat quality traits in farm animals. Longissimus dorsi muscles were sampled from five prenatal development stages (70, 85, 100, 120 and 135 day of gestation) in Texel and eight development stages (at 70, 85, 100, 120, 135 days post coitus (dpc), birth, 1 month and 2 month) in Ujumqin sheep. There were at least three replicates at each development time in each breed. Two gene expression experiments were conducted with a total of 40 hybridizations.
Project description:To characterize the mechanism of porcine skeletal muscle development, transcriptome analysis of longissimus dorsi muscle between Shaziling and Yorkshire pig breeds
Project description:Maternal nutrition during different stages of pregnancy can induce significant changes in the structure, physiology, and metabolism of the offspring. These changes could have important implications on food animal production especially if these perturbations impact muscle and adipose tissue development. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of different maternal diets on the transcriptome of fetal tissues in sheep. Ewes were bred to a single sire and from days 67 ± 3 of gestation until necropsy (days 130 ± 1), they were fed one of three isoenergetic diets: alfalfa haylage (H; fiber), corn (C; starch), or dried corn distillers grains (D; fiber plus protein plus fat). Longissimus dorsi (M), subcutaneous adipose depot (S), and perirenal adipose depot (R) tissues from individual fetuses were pooled and then analyzed by RNA sequencing. A total of 26 fetuses were removed from 15 dams. From the fetuses three different tissues were collected including one muscle, longissimus dorsi muscle (M), and two adipose tissues, perirenal adipose depot (R) and subcutaneous adipose depot (S). The RNA samples from the 26 fetuses were pooled to generate four biological replicates per maternal diet and tissue. In particular, per each diet and tissue, two RNA pools were created from male fetuses and two RNA pools were created from female fetuses. Overall, a total of 36 pools (i.e., 12 pools per tissue, 3 tissues in total) underwent RNA extraction, library generation, and subsequent sequencing.
Project description:Microarrays were used for transcription profiling of skeletal muscle samples taken at birth, when the phenotype was not expressed, and 12 weeks of age from Callipyge and wild type sheep. The genes that underlie the expression of the phenotype rather than result from the fibre type change in the affected muscle have been identified. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying the hypertrophy phenotype and identified distinct classes of regulated genes during this process. A working model that links the muscle hypertrophy phenotype with a core group of transcriptional coregulators is proposed. Experiment Overall Design: Gene expression analyses were performed primarily on longissimus dorsi skeletal muscle (LD) from Wild type (NN) and Callipyge (NCpat) sheep using Bovine Affymetrix GeneChip microarrays. Two developmental time-points were investigated in this study: newborn (within 5 days of birth; T0) and 11-12 weeks post-birth (T12). The muscle hypertrophy phenotype developed over the first 2-3 months and was associated with a significant change in muscle fibre type (Carpenter et al., 1996; Cockett et al., 1994; 1996; Kerth et al., 2003). One of the objectives of the gene expression analysis was to delineate between those genes that underlie the muscle hypertrophy in Callipyge sheep and those that result from the fibre type change in the affected muscle. To address this issue a comparison was undertaken of gene expression in wild type skeletal muscles with differing fibre type compositions to identify fibre type specific genes. These samples were taken from NN animals at T12. The three skeletal muscles used in this analysis were semimembranosis (SM), semitendinosis (ST) and longissimus dorsi (LD).
Project description:We performed transcriptome analysis of the longissimus dorsi muscle of four pig breeds (L, LDPL, DPL, DLDPL). This study provides a reference for exploring transcriptome regulation mechanisms affecting muscle growth and development in different pig breeds.
Project description:This study takes pig longissimus dorsi muscle as the object. Through spatial transcriptome research, we clarified the gene expression distribution of different types of muscle fibers in the tissue, and their corresponding marker genes were identified.