Project description:Large White and Meishan pigs were either non-treated or injected with mammalian 1-24 ACTH (Immediate Synachten, Novartis France) at the dose of 250 µg per animal. Pigs were sacrificed either immediately after capture from their home cage (non-treated animals) or 1 hour following ACTH injection. Adrenal glands were immediately collected from pigs and frozen on dry ice and then stored at -80°C until RNA isolation. Keywords: stress response, adrenal, gene expression, pig
Project description:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in diverse biological processes. However, the landscape of lncRNAs is largely unclear in Sus scrofa. Here we performed stranded RNA-seq on total RNA libraries from over 100 samples of Sus scrofa tissues. We identified 10,813 lncRNAs in Sus scrofa, of which 9,075 are novel. 57% of these lncRNAs were conserved in both human and mouse. These conserved lncRNAs tend to be more tissue-specific than pig-specific lncRNAs, and enriched in reproducible organs (i.e. testis and ovary). We characterized a group of lncRNAs potentially involved in the skeletal muscle development. One such lncRNA, a homolog of maternally expressed gene 3 (MEG3), was specifically expressed in the skeletal muscle at early developmental stage. And its expression pattern is conserved in pig and mouse. By over-expressing and knocking down MEG3 in mouse myoblast cell lines, we demonstrated its novel function as a myoblast proliferation suppressor.
Project description:Large White and Meishan pigs were either non-treated or injected with mammalian 1-24 ACTH (Immediate Synachten, Novartis France) at the dose of 250 µg per animal. Pigs were sacrificed either immediately after capture from their home cage (non-treated animals) or 1 hour following ACTH injection. Adrenal glands were immediately collected from pigs and frozen on dry ice and then stored at -80°C until RNA isolation. Keywords: stress response, adrenal, gene expression, pig 47 samples
Project description:Skin is the largest organ of body, and one function of skin is protecting underly organs away from ultraviolet (UV) radiation damage. Loss of melanocyte will reduce ability of skin to against UV radiation damage. We found Bama Pig can be an ideal model studying loss of melanocyte. In this study, we performed transcriptome profiling of mRNA and long noncoding RNA in Bama pig white skin (absence of melanocyte) and black skin (existence of melanocyte) to provide dataset for clinical researches. Total of 14,900 mRNAs and 7,566 lncRNAs were expressed in the study. Results of hierarchical cluster analysis and principal component analysis (PCA) demonstrated expression of mRNAs and lncRNAs varied greatly between two color skins. 2,342 mRNA were identified as being differentially expressed, including 1,309 genes that were down-regulated in white skin and 1,033 gene that were up-regulated in white skin (P <0.05; |log2(fold change)| > 1). The genes down-regulated in white skin were associated with melanocyte biology, melanocyte function and keratin, while genes up-regulated in white skin were main associated with metabolism pathway, oxidative phosphorylation and citrate cycle (TCA cycle). In addition, we identified 120 differentially expressed lncRNAs. In those lncRNAs, 4 lncRNAs may function in skin biology (TCONS_00019024 and TCONS_00077733) or metabolic (TCONS_00042201 and TCONS_00060772). Our research provides Bama pig skins datasets and could promote clinical researches utilizing Bama pig as model.
Project description:To obtain an overview of the transcriptome landscape in developing pig skeletal muscle, 81 high-quality transcriptome libraries that covered 27 developmental stages (3 biological replicates per stage) in pig skeletal muscle were produced by strand-specific rRNA-depleted total RNA sequencing (RNA-seq). We generated 8.59 billion paired-end reads (150 bp × 2) covering 1.24 Tb of sequence for RNA-seq.
Project description:To obtain an overview of the methylome landscape in the developing pig skeletal muscle, 81 high-quality whole-genome bisulfite sequencing(WGBS) libraries that covered 27 developmental stages (3 biological replicates per stage) from embryonic day 33 (E33) to postnatal day 180 (D180) were produced by whole-genome bisulfite sequencing.