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Differential Transcriptome Analysis of Early Postnatal Developing Longissimus Dorsi Muscle from Two Pig Breeds Characterized in Divergent Myofiber Traits and Fatness.

Abstract：

:Meat quality traits (MQTs) are very important in the porcine industry, which are mainly determined by skeletal muscle fiber composition, extra-muscular and/or intramuscular fat content. To identify the differentially expressed candidate genes affecting the meat quality traits, first we compared the MQTs and skeletal muscle fiber characteristics in the longissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) of the Northeast Min pig (NM) and the Changbaishan wild boar (CW) with their body weight approaching 90 kg. The significant divergences in the skeletal muscle fiber phenotypes and fatness traits between the two porcine breeds established an ideal model system for further identifying potential key functional genes that dominated MQTs. Further, a transcriptome profile analysis was performed using the Illumina sequencing method in early postnatal developing LDM from the two breeds at the ages of 42 days. Comparative analysis between these two cDNA libraries showed that there were 17,653 and 22,049 unambiguous tag-mapped sense transcripts detected from NM and CW, respectively. 4522 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were revealed between the two tissue samples, of them, 4176 genes were found as having been upregulated and 346 genes were identified as having been downregulated in the NM library. By pathway enrichment analysis, a set of significantly enriched pathways were identified for the DEGs, which are potentially involved in myofiber development, differentiation and growth, lipogenesis and lipolysis in porcine skeletal muscle. The expression levels of 30 out of the DEGs were validated by real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR (qRT-PCR) and the observed result was consistent noticeably with the Illumina transcriptome profiles. The findings from this study can contribute to future investigations of skeletal muscle growth and development mechanism and to establishing molecular approaches to improve meat quality traits in pig breeding.

journal_name

Anim Biotechnol

journal_title

Animal biotechnology

authors

Xu X,Mishra B,Qin N,Sun X,Zhang S,Yang J,Xu R

doi

10.1080/10495398.2018.1437045

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-01-01 00:00:00

pages

63-74

issue

eissn

1049-5398

issn

1532-2378

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Differential Transcriptome Analysis of Early Postnatal Developing Longissimus Dorsi Muscle from Two Pig Breeds Characterized in Divergent Myofiber Traits and Fatness.