Project description:Three Japanese Black (JB) and 3 Holstein (HS) steers were fed a high energy diet and were slaughtered with 26 months of age. Intramuscular (IMF) and subcutaneous fat (SCF) was sampled to reveal differences in the expression profiles between the breeds and adipose depots. Pair wise comparison of JB and HS within IMF and SCF; pairwise comparision of IMF and SCF over both breeds.
Project description:The experiment aimed at studying gene expression differences in longissimus dorsi muscle from pigs from two groups: High versus low intramuscular fat (IMF). The animals were selected from a crossbred population of Landrace x Yorkshire/Landrace x Duroc animals, where we have previously found a highly significant QTL for IMF (Grindflek et al. 2001: "Detection of quantitative trait loci for meat quality in a commercial slaughter pig cross", Mammalian Genome 12(4): 299-304), and by microarray analysis we hoped to identify candidate genes for the QTL and/or pathways that are affected by the genes responsible for the QTL. Keywords: phenotype comparison Direct dye-swap design, with 14 animals in each group (high IMF and low IMF) on 14 separate arrays
Project description:Three Japanese Black (JB) and 3 Holstein (HS) steers were fed a high energy diet and were slaughtered with 26 months of age. Intramuscular (IMF) and subcutaneous fat (SCF) was sampled to reveal differences in the expression profiles between the breeds and adipose depots.
Project description:Lower selection intensity resulted in obvious genetically and phenotypically divergences in China indigenous breeds. Nanyang black pig, a China indigenous breed, was famous for its high lipid deposition and high genetic divergence, which made it an ideal model investigating mechanism of lipid position traits in pig. Here, transcriptome and TMT-based proteome analyses were carried out in longissimus dorsi (LD) tissue of high genetic variation individual Nanyang black pigs. After phenotyping in a big population with multi-production traits indexes, six Nanyang black pigs were selected and divided into relatively high and low lipid deposition groups. Combining analyses of transcriptomic and proteomic data identified 15 candidate genes determining lipid deposition genetic divergence in Nanyang black pig. Among them, FASN, CAT, and SLC25A20 were main causal candidate genes. The other genes could be divided as lipid deposition related gene (BDH2, FASN, CAT, DHCR24, ACACA, GK, SQLE, ACSL4, SCD), PPARA-centered fat metabolism regulatory factors (PPARA, UCP3), transcription or translation regulators (SLC25A20, PDK4, CEBPA), and integrin, structural proteins, signal transduction-related genes (EGFR). The multi-omics data set provided a valuable resource for analyses on lipid deposition-traits in pig, especially in Nanyang black pig.
Project description:Intramuscular fat (IMF) content is the determining factor for meat taste. To reveal the genetic basis of IMF content, genetic studies have made some progress in lean-type pig breeds, but fewer studies have been conducted in Chinese fat-type pigs. The Luchuan pig is a fat-type local breed in southern China that is famous for its desirable meat quality. In the present study, we measured the IMF content for 265 crossed pigs of Duroc x Luchuan pigs, from which individuals with extremely high (6.03% ± 0.58%, n = 12) and low (1.67% ± 0.42%, n = 12) IMF contents were selected to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) related to IMF content in the longissimus dorsi. RNA sequencing for 24 samples in total identified 312 differentially expressed transcripts that were significantly enriched in triglyceride biosynthesis- and metabolism-related processes (p-value ≤ 0.05 and fold change ≥ 1.5). Functional enrichment analysis revealed that the PPAR signaling pathway was the most significantly enriched pathway (p-value = 0.024, represented by ADIPOQ, FABP3, FABP4, LPL, PLIN4 and SCD). When a more stringent condition was applied (gene-based q-value ≤ 0.2 and fold change ≥ 1.5), only 17 transcripts remained to be differentially expressed, including LEP, ATP6V1F, SDR16C5, TUSC5, MPZ, PRX, PTPN4, BEX1, MVB12B, ZFP62, P4HA2, IDH2, THOC7, KRT14, FCGRT, MYPN and LPL. Among these DEGs, TUSC5 was significantly upregulated in the group of high IMF contents (log2FC = 1.114, p-value = 3.02E-5) and was suspected as a strong new candidate gene affecting porcine IMF content since it was the target gene of PPAR-gamma. The present study provided new data and candidate genes for the genetic study of porcine IMF content.
Project description:The Laiwu pig is famous for its excessively higher level of IMF content, however, the exact regulatory mechanism is still unknown. The intramuscular fat content (IMF) is an economically important traits in pigs, which is controlled by multiple genes and biological pathways. In the present study, we performed an integrated transcriptome-assisted label-free quantitative proteomic analysis of longissimus dorsi (LD) muscle in Laiwu pigs at the fastest IMF deposition stage. A total of 5074 unique proteins were identified and 191 were differentially abundant proteins (DAPs) (> 1.2-fold cutoff, p < 0.05), which were hierarchically clustered in the LD muscle over two developmental stages from 120 d to 240 d. Proteins participating in the regulation of lipolysis in adipocytes and AMPK signaling pathway were identified. Six proteins were analyzed using parallel reaction monitoring (PRM) to confirm the reliability of the TMT proteomic analysis. Association networks of differentially abundant proteins revealed that these DAPs were mainly involved in ribosome biosynthesis in eukaryotic species. A comparasion between transcriptomic (mRNA) and proteomic data revealed seven differentially expressed genes corresponding to DAPs. This study, for the first time, provides some data for the elucidation of the molecular mechanism of IMF deposition in pigs.
Project description:To evaluate the roles of miRNA in porcine liver, dynamic profiles of microRNAome were investigated in swine breeds with different traits of commercial interest, we sampled liver tissues from a Chinese well-known elite native breed of Enshi black pig, a Large White pig, and a Chinese wild boar living within the same environment at the same day-old(90d).
Project description:Intramuscular fat (IMF) in pork holds significant importance for economic performance within the pig industry and dietary calcium supplementation enhances the accumulation of intramuscular fat. Additionally, calcium ions inhibit translation and reduce protein synthesis. However, the mechanism by which calcium regulates IMF deposition in muscle through translation remains largely unknown. In this study, we compared the ribosome profiles of the longissimus dorsi muscles of trigram pigs from the normal calcium (NC) group or calcium supplement (HC) group by Ribo-seq, and RNA-seq. By integrating multiple-omics analysis, we further discovered 437 genes that were transcriptionally unchanged but translationally altered and these genes
Project description:The experiment aimed at studying gene expression differences in longissimus dorsi muscle from pigs from two groups: High versus low intramuscular fat (IMF). The animals were selected from a crossbred population of Landrace x Yorkshire/Landrace x Duroc animals, where we have previously found a highly significant QTL for IMF (Grindflek et al. 2001: "Detection of quantitative trait loci for meat quality in a commercial slaughter pig cross", Mammalian Genome 12(4): 299-304), and by microarray analysis we hoped to identify candidate genes for the QTL and/or pathways that are affected by the genes responsible for the QTL. Keywords: phenotype comparison
Project description:To explore the methylome differences of swine breeds with different traits of commercial interest, we sampled liver tissues from a Chinese well-known elite native breed of Enshi black pig, a Large White pig, and a Chinese wild boar living within the same environment at the same daya-old (90d).