EST analysis on pig mitochondria reveal novel expression differences between developmental and adult tissues.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The mitochondria are involved in many basic functions in cells of vertebrates, and can be considered the power generator of the cell. Though the mitochondria have been extensively studied there appear to be only few expression studies of mitochondrial genes involving a large number of tissues and developmental stages. Here, we conduct an analysis using the PigEST resource 1 which contains expression information from 35 tissues distributed on one normalized and 97 non-normalized cDNA libraries of which 24 are from developmental stages. The mitochondrial PigEST resource contains 41,499 mitochondrial sequences.

Results

The mitochondrial EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) sequences were assembled into contigs which covers more than 94 percent of the porcine mitochondrial ge

SUBMITTER: Scheibye-Alsing K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2194790 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature