Project description:Genome-wide DNA methylation and mRNA and the microRNA transcriptome profiling between oxidative and glycolytic skeletal muscles [miRNA-seq]
Project description:The three estrogen related receptors (ERRs) are regulators of oxidative metabolism in many cell types, yet their roles in skeletal muscle have not been elucidated. To address the roles and significance of ERRs for skeletal muscle mitochondria and muscle function, we generated mice lacking combinations of ERRs specifically in skeletal muscle. We then compared the impact of ERR loss on the transcriptomes of EDL and soleus, i.e., muscles rich in glycolytic or oxidative fibers, respectively. Our findings highlight an essential role of ERRs for skeletal muscle oxidative metabolism and identify broad classes of ERR-dependent gene programs in muscle. They also suggest a high degree of functional redundancy among muscle ERR isoforms for the protection of oxidative capacity, with ERR isoform-specific phenotypes being driven primarily, but not exclusively, by their relative levels in different muscles. To compare the relative contributions of ERRs for oxidative capacity in glycolytic and oxidative skeletal muscles, we generated mice lacking one or two ERRs specifically in skeletal muscle. We then performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq of soleus and EDL muscles of WT and ERR KO mice .
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:Gene expression in Longissimus lumborum and Semimembranosus skeletal muscles in pig using the GenmascqChip (custom 15K Agilent microarray)
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:Mutations in genes involved in dNTP metabolism can lead to tissue-specific mitochondrial depletion syndromes (MDS), likely because the expression of key enzymes is reduced to critical levels in post mitotic cells. Our goal was to establish an in vitro skeletal muscle cell model to study the muscle specificity of MDS associated with mitochondrial dNTP pool imbalance. We performed a comprehensive analysis at the mRNA level of enzymes and transporters responsible for dNTP pool imbalance in muscle cells in vitro and in vivo. Agilent Mouse Oligo Arrays 4x44K were utilized to examine expression levels in proliferating and differentiated C2C12 cells as well as in the mouse EDL (fast glycolytic) and soleus (slow oxidative) muscles. The comparison of mRNA expression profiles supports the reliability of our in vitro cell system. Proliferating mouse C2C12 myoblasts were collected at about 50 percent confluence. Myoblasts were then induced to differentiate in vitro into myotubes that were harvested after 96 hours and further purified to reduce the contribution of mononucleated cells present in the culture. Gene expression in C2C12 myoblasts and myotubes was compared with fully differentiated muscle fibers in vivo. To this aim, the extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and soleus hind limb muscles were isolated from adult CD1 mice. These muscles were selected because they have different metabolic (glycolytic vs. oxidative) and twitching (fast vs. slow) properties. Triplicate total RNA samples were submitted to gene expression profiling.