Project description:Fatty liver disease is prevalent during parturition in dairy cattle. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop novel, sensitive biomarkers for the early diagnosis of the metabolic disorders. Macroproteomics revealed that the fecal microbial community changes significantly when animal develops fatty liver disease. The microbial changes in cows with severe fatty liver (SFL) were greater than cows with moderate fatty liver (MFL) and normal condition (Norm). This suggests that microorganisms play an important role in the pathogenesis of metabolic disorders. In this study, feces-sourced microorganisms and microbial proteins were identified and testified as novel biomarkers for the early diagnosis of fatty liver disease in cattle. For example, the AUC (area under curve) values, based on Receiver Operating Characteristics analysis, of using the combination of Lachnoanaerobaculum and Bifidobacterium (at the genus level) to discriminate MFL and SFL animals reached 0.944 and 0.867, respectively. and 0.922 and 0.985, respectively, for the combination of Bifidobacterium pseudolongum and Lachnospiraceae bacterium (at the species level). Interestingly, the differentially expressed microbial proteins are closely related to the identified microorganisms. For example, the majority of the top 20 microbial proteins with significant expression differences were derived from Bifidobacterium pseudolongum. Bifidobacterium pseudolongum was considered a prominent potential biomarker for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders, especially in fatty liver cattle. The results of this study confirm that microbial signatures have a causal contribution to the pathophysiological mechanism of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), but also shed light on fecal microbiota transfer (FMT) experiments in treating NAFLD.
Project description:Haploid androgenetic stem cells (haSCs) are invaluable resources for studying animal traits and greatly impact livestock breeding, but livestock haSCs have yet to be obtained. Here, we report the derivation of cattle and sheep haSCs using the recombined FACE medium, and these cells harbor formative pluripotency features. Notably, knockout cattle and sheep can be obtained upon injection of the protaminized haSCs with targeted gene mutations into intact oocytes.
Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate expression of mRNAs in many biological pathways. Here we report comprehensive miRNAs profiles by next-gen deep sequencing in Angus cattle divergently selected for residual feed intake (RFI) and identify miRNAs related to feed efficiency in beef cattle Results: Two microRNA libraries were constructed from pooled RNA extracted from livers of low and high RFI cattle, and sequenced by Illumina genome analyser. In total, 23,628,103 high quality short sequence reads were obtained and more than half of these reads were matched to the bovine genome (UMD 3.1). We identified 305 known bovine miRNAs (miRBase v.19). Bta-miR-143, bta-miR-30, bta-miR-122, bta-miR-378 and bta-let-7 were the top five most abundant miRNAs families expressed in liver, representing more than 63% of expressed miRNAs. We also identified 52 homologous miRNAs and 10 novel putative bovine-specific miRNAs, based on precursor sequence and the secondary structure and utilizing the miRBase (version 19). We compared the miRNAs profile between high and low RFI animals and ranked the most differentially expressed bovine known miRNAs. Bovine miR-143 was the most abundant miRNA in the bovine liver and comprised 20% of total expressed mapped miRNAs. The most highly expressed miRNA in liver of mice and humans, miR-122, was the third most abundant in our cattle liver samples. We also identified 10 putative novel bovine-specific miRNA candidates. Differentially expressed miRNAs between high and low RFI cattle were identified with 18 miRNAs being up-regulated and 7 other miRNAs down-regulated in low RFI cattle Conclusions: Our study has identified comprehensive miRNAs expressed in bovine liver. Some of the expressed miRNAs are novel in cattle. The differentially expressed miRNAs between high and low RFI give some insights into liver miRNAs regulating physiological pathways underlying residual feed intake in bovine
2015-11-27 | GSE63691 | GEO
Project description:Novel bacteria from cattle uterus
Project description:Phospholamban R14del mutazion (PLN-R14del) has been identified in a large family pedigree in which heterozygous carriers exhibited inherited dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and death by middle age. To better understand the causal link between the mutations in PLN and DCM pathology, we derived induced pluripotent stem cells from a DCM patient carrying the PLN R14del mutation. We showed that iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes recapitulated the DCM-specific phenotype and demonstrated that either TALEN-mediated genetic correction or combinatorial gene therapy resulted in phenotypic rescue. Our findings offer novel insights into the pathogenesis caused by mutant PLN and point to the development of potential new therapeutics of pathogenic genetic variants associated with inherited cardiomyopathies. Submitter confirms there are no patient privacy concerns with these data. iPSCs were derived from a female patient carrying a heterozygous mutation (R14del) in the PLN gene. Tree samples were analyzed: R14del-CMs (clone L2), corrected R14del-CMs (clone L2GC1) and corrected R14del-CMs (clone L2GC2)
Project description:We collected blood samples of two non-obstructive azoospermia patients, and performed whole exome sequencing to explore the causal mutations for male infertility.