Project description:Identification of novel candidate genes associated with intramuscular fat content in porcine longissimus dorsi muscle via transcriptome analysis
Project description:Transcriptomal analysis revealed that the metabolism and structure of porcine Longissimus Dorsi muscle were changed by constant heat stress
Project description:Acute physical exercise elicits changes in gene expression in skeletal muscles to promote metabolic changes and to repair exercise-induced muscle injuries. Here, we investigated the impact of a single bout of running exercise until exhaustion on global transcriptional profiles in porcine skeletal muscles. Using a combined microarray and candidate gene approach, we identified a suite of genes that are differentially expressed in muscles during post-exercise recovery. Thus, several members of the heat shock protein family and proteins associated with proteolytic events were significantly up-regulated, suggesting that protein breakdown, prevention of protein aggregation and stabilization of unfolded proteins are important processes for restoring cellular homeostasis. We also detected an up-regulation of genes, which have been reported to be associated with muscle cell proliferation and differentiation, possibly reflecting an activation, differentiation and fusion of satellite cells to facilitate repair of muscle damage. In addition, exercise increased expression of the nuclear hormone receptors, which regulates metabolic functions associated with lipid, carbohydrate and energy homeostasis. Finally, we observed an unanticipated involvement of long non-coding RNA transcripts, which have been implicated in RNA processing and nuclear retention of adenosine-to-inosine edited mRNAs. These findings expand the complexity of pathways affected by acute contractile activity of skeletal muscle, contributing to a better understanding of the molecular processes that occur in muscle tissue in the recovery phase. Gene expression study of the porcine muscle Longissimus dorsi in regard to exercise, pigs allowed to rest for 0 hours, 1 hour and 3 hours after exercise were compared with pigs that had not been exercising, using in-house printed porcine two-colour oligonucleotide microarrays.
Project description:Pig is an important animal model for human obesity and diseases. However, the complexity of the porcine transcriptome is not yet fully elucidated. Here we have used massively parallel high-throughput sequencing of cDNA (RNA-Seq) to generate a high-resolution map of the porcine transcriptome and miRNA in liver (LI), longissimus dorsi (LD) and abdominal fat (AF) from an F2 female full-sib pair with extreme phenotypes in growth and fat deposit. On the basis of the porcine annotated genes against the UCSC database, we identified 21,414 annotated genes in our RNA-Seq analysis and 48,045-122,931 novel transcript fragments, which could be clustered into 17,085-29,499 novel transcriptional active regions (nTARs). We found that ~18.8% of the detected known genes showed alternative splicing patterns, and alternative 3’ splicing was the most common type of alternative splicing events in pigs. We also detected that more than 22.7% of the known genes identified here were extended at their 5’ and/or 3’ end. We identified 2,796, 1,551 and 835 differentially expressed genes (DEGs), respectively, in AF, LI and LD between the two individuals. Examining the complexity of the pig transcriptome in three organs (liver, abdominal fat, longissimus dorsi muscle) from a female full-sib pair.
Project description:Expression data from longissimus dorsi muscle of Shaziling pig at 25-days old and longissimus dorsi musle of Yorkshire pig at 25-days old
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Project description:Transcriptomic analysis of porcine skeletal muscles exposed to a single bout of endurance exercise