Comparative Transcriptome Analysis between SOL and EDL Muscle in Yorkshire pigs using Affymetrix microarray
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ABSTRACT: Skeletal muscle is heterogeneous in nature and distinguished as red muscle and white muscle because of their myofiber composition. Soleus (SOL) is a typical red muscle and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) is a typical white muscle. In this study, we compared the transcriptome difference of soleus and extensor digitorum longus from three 10-week-old Yorkshire boars with porcine Affymetrix microarray.
Project description:Analysis of soleus (SOL) and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles isolated from Acta1-Cre+/4Fhet (as treatment) and Acta1-Cre-/4Fhet (as control) mice. Results provide unbiased gene expression profile of SOL and EDL muscles after 4F induction.
Project description:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a lethal motor neuron disease that progressively debilitates neuronal cells that control voluntary muscle activity. In a mouse model of ALS that expresses mutated human superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1-G93A) skeletal muscle is one of the tissues affected early by mutant SOD1 toxicity. Fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscles are differentially affected in ALS patients and in the SOD1-G93A model, fast-twitch muscles being more vulnerable. We used miRNA microarrays to investigate miRNA alterations in fast-twitch (EDL) and slow-twitch (soleus) skeletal muscles of symptomatic SOD1-G93A animals and their age-matched wild type littermates. At age of 90 days RNA was extracted from extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and soleus (SOL) muscles of male SOD1-G93A animals and their age-matched wild type male littermates. RNA was hybridized on Affymetrix Multispecies miRNA-2_0 Array.
Project description:Decreased insulin availability and high blood glucose levels, the hallmark features of poorly controlled diabetes, drive disease progression and are associated with decreased skeletal muscle mass. We have shown that mice with -cell dysfunction and normal insulin sensitivity have decreased skeletal muscle mass. This project asks how insulin deficiency impacts on the structure and function of the remaining skeletal muscle in these animals. Methods: Skeletal muscle function was determined by measuring exercise capacity and specific muscle strength prior to and after insulin supplementation for 28 days in 12-week-old mice with conditional -cell deletion of the ATP binding cassette transporters ABCA1 and ABCG1 (β-DKO mice). Abca1 and Abcg1 floxed (fl/fl) mice were used as controls. RNAseq was used to quantify changes in transcripts in soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles. Skeletal muscle and mitochondrial morphology were assessed by transmission electron microscopy. Myofibrillar Ca2+ sensitivity and maximum isometric single muscle fibre force were assessed using MyoRobot biomechatronics technology. Results: RNA transcripts were significantly altered in β-DKO mice compared to fl/fl controls (32 in extensor digitorum longus and 412 in soleus). Exercise capacity and muscle strength were significantly decreased in β-DKO mice compared to fl/fl controls (p = 0.012), and a loss of structural integrity was also observed in skeletal muscle from the β-DKO mice. Supplementation of β-DKO mice with insulin restored muscle integrity, strength and expression of 13 and 16 of the dysregulated transcripts in and extensor digitorum longus and soleus muscles, respectively. Conclusions: Insulin insufficiency due to -cell dysfunction perturbs the structure and function of skeletal muscle. These adverse effects are rectified by insulin supplementation.
Project description:In order to study the subcellular localization of lncRNAs in myofibers of skeletal muscle, single myofibers were isolated from Soleus, Extensor Digitorum Longus (EDL) and Tibialis Anterior (TA) of 9 mice. RNA was extracted from nuclei and cytoplasmic fractions of 5-10 isolated myofibers and than separately hybridized on microarrays. Preferential expression in nuclear or cytoplasmic compartment of each lncRNA was determined.
Project description:To determine the gene expression profile of extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and soleus (SO) muscles of wild-type and Ts1Cje mouse model of Down Syndrome (DS). Two types of skeletal muscles (EDL and SO) were harvested from both Ts1Cje and its disomic littermate.
Project description:To test the hypothesis that different muscles may express variable amounts of different isoforms of muscle genes, we applied a custom-designed exon microarray containing probes for 57 muscle-specific genes to assay the transcriptional profiles in sets of human adult, lower limb skeletal muscles. Muscle biopsies from 15 individuals were selected for analysis dissected from 21 anatomically different muscles collected from eight men and seven women, ranging from 61 to 91 years The muscle tissue samples collected included samples from 11 different thigh muscles––vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedialis, sartorius, gracilis, semimembranosus, semitendinosus, biceps femoris, adductor magnus, adductor longus, and rectus femoris––and 10 lower leg muscles––flexor digitorum longus, extensor digitorum longus, tibialis posterior, tibialis anterior, peroneus longus/brevis, extensor hallucis longus, gastrocnemius lateralis, gastrocnemius medialis, flexor hallucis longus, and soleus. Approximately five to seven muscle pieces were collected from each individual muscle sampled. The muscle sample pieces obtained for histological analysis measured roughly 10 mm x 5 mm, and the pieces for RNA isolation 5 mm x 5 mm. The samples were obtained directly from the proximal vital parts of the amputated limbs and processed immediately following their removal to avoid tissue degradation.To test the hypothesis that different muscles may express variable amounts of different isoforms of muscle genes, we applied a custom-designed Agilent exon microarray containing probes for 57 muscle-specific genes to assay the transcriptional profiles in sets of human adult, lower limb skeletal muscles
Project description:We measured gene expression differences in the extensor digitorum longus (edl) skeletal muscle between wild-type and mice lacking Cu, Zn-superoxide dismutase to determine the effect of chronic oxidative stress on skeletal muscle.
Project description:Skeletal muscle is a heterogeneous tissue. To study the myo-specific epigenetic landscape in the slow soleus and fast extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle, myonuclei were purified with PCM1 -an endogenous mark specific for mature myonuclei. Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-Seq) was performed using antibodies against the histone marks H3K4me3 and H3K27ac. Comparison of the differently enriched areas between the two muscles shows that the epigenetic landscape reflects the functional properties of the muscles, each with a distinct regulatory program involving distal regulatory enhancers.
Project description:The mdx mouse (C57BL/10ScSn-DMDmdx/J), like Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients, lacks the protein dystrophin. However, the mdx mouse has a normal lifespan and mild pathology while DMD remains a severe, fatal disease. New mouse models have been developed that are more severely affected but they have not replaced the mdx mouse in DMD research. A few years ago RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) results of biopsies from DMD and normal human muscle were published but we could not find equivalent data for the mouse. We now report RNA-sequencing of three wild-type and mdx mouse muscles: the flexor digitorum brevis (FDB), the extensor digitorum longus (EDL), and the soleus (SOL). The FDB, a plantar foot muscle is often used for in vivo and ex vivo experiments but may be less affected by the lack of dystrophy than the hindlimb muscles. We compared muscles from 2- and 5-month old mice to investigate the time-course of the mdx pathology. The results show a muscle- and age-dependent parallel between mdx and DMD muscles. Although the FDB is less affected than EDL and SOL at 2 months, the three muscles show, at both ages, activation of close to 100 genes from 7 pathways that are affected in presymptomatic DMD patients and have been called "DMD disease signature".
Project description:To further our understanding of the biological mechanisms regulating voluntary physical activity levels, we measured differential miRNA expression in two strains of mice that have been repeatedly shown to have inherently high and low voluntary physical activity levels measured by wheel running. RNA from skeletal muscle (soleus and extensor digitorum longus (EDL)) and nucleus accumbens in the brain tissues were evaluated by microarray. There were no other variables besides inherent strain differences. Thirteen miRNAs from nucleus accumbens, 22 from soleus, and nine miRNAs from EDL were determined to be differentially expressed by microarray analysis. RT-qPCR validated mir-342b-3p and 466d-3p to be differentially expressed in the NA, and miR-466b-3p in the soleus.