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.
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:Fetal myogenesis and postnatal skeletal muscle hypertrophy in growing pigs are critical yet poorly understood processes. Global gene expression analyses will increase understanding of these processes by identifying key genes and pathways controlling skeletal muscle development. For this study, a pig 70-mer oligonucleotide microarray was used to identify differentially expressed genes in hind limb skeletal muscle of pigs at 60 days of gestation and 7 weeks of age. This oligonucleotide microarray experiment revealed 162 genes that were differentially expressed between 60 day fetal and 7 week postnatal samples. Relative real-time RT-PCR was used to confirm differential expression of three genes. This experiment identified genes exhibiting different developmental patterns of gene expression in pig skeletal muscle. Keywords: developmental study
Project description:Fetal myogenesis and postnatal skeletal muscle hypertrophy in growing pigs are critical yet poorly understood processes. Global gene expression analyses will increase understanding of these processes by identifying key genes and pathways controlling skeletal muscle development. For this study, a pig 70-mer oligonucleotide microarray was used to identify differentially expressed genes in hind limb skeletal muscle of pigs at 60 days of gestation and 7 weeks of age. This oligonucleotide microarray experiment revealed 162 genes that were differentially expressed between 60 day fetal and 7 week postnatal samples. Relative real-time RT-PCR was used to confirm differential expression of three genes. This experiment identified genes exhibiting different developmental patterns of gene expression in pig skeletal muscle. Oligonucleotide microarrays used for this study consisted of 13,297 70-mer oligos (Pig Array-Ready Oligo Set v. 1.0 and Pig Oligo Extension Set v. 1.0, Qiagen, Inc., Valencia, CA) each spotted once on a single slide . Controls included 76 Arabidopsis thaliana gene spots, 17 beta tubulin spots, 17 glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase spots, 85 heat shock protein gene spots, 69 ribosomal protein gene spots, 112 randomly generated negative control spots and 470 blanks. The oligonucleotide microarray was screened with samples obtained from pigs at 60 days of gestation and 7 weeks of age postnatal (n = 3 per age). Six oligonucleotide microarray slides were screened. All samples were used twice, labeled once with Cy3 and once with Cy5, and each 60 day gestation sample was randomly paired with two different 7 week postnatal samples.
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:Skeletal muscle were collected from pigs treated in the control group, the Lys deficiency group and the Lys rescue group. Then, the samples were analyzed by LC-MSMS.
Project description:Muscle development and growth is an economically important process in the pig.The neonatal period is another important stage for the pig when the most rapid gain occurring in skeletal muscle.Gene expresseion changes during fetal and postnatal skeletal muscle development that can be used to enhance pig production efficiency, as well as for comparative developmental biology using the pig as a model for other mammalian species. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression level at different stages of postnatal development.