Project description:Female domestic pigs were fed a 16-week Lean or Obese diet. Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) were harvested from subcutaneous adipose tissue and expanded for 3-4 passages, and 5hmC profiles were examined through hydroxymethylated DNA immunoprecipitation sequencing (hMeDIP-seq) We hypothesized that obesity and cardiovascular risk factors induce functionally-relevant, locus-specific changes in overall exonic coverage of 5hmC in swine adipose-derived MSCs, and evaluated their reversibility using an epigenetic modulator, vitamin-C.
Project description:Minipigs are animal models widely used in biomedical studies due to their physiological and anatomical similarities to humans. However, a comprehensive resource for the Korean minipig (Sus scrofa) transcriptome remains unavailable. In this study, we constructed a de novo transcriptome of the Korean minipig using RNA-seq data obtained from ten tissues across ten samples. The final assembly comprised 57,085 coding transcripts with an average length of 3,075 nucleotides and an N50 of 4,258 nucleotides. In total, 65.4% of the transcripts were annotated, and biological functions were assigned. Transcript expression profiling and principal component analysis showed that samples clustered by tissue type, reflecting transcriptomic features shared across tissues. Comparative analysis demonstrated that the novel transcriptome assembly had contiguity and completeness comparable to those available for pig and minipig breeds. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive transcriptomic resource for the Korean minipig, facilitating further functional analyses.
Project description:Minipigs are animal models widely used in biomedical studies due to their physiological and anatomical similarities to humans. However, a comprehensive resource for the Korean minipig (Sus scrofa) transcriptome remains unavailable. In this study, we constructed a de novo transcriptome of the Korean minipig using RNA-seq data obtained from ten tissues across ten samples. The final assembly comprised 57,085 coding transcripts with an average length of 3,075 nucleotides and an N50 of 4,258 nucleotides. In total, 65.4% of the transcripts were annotated, and biological functions were assigned. Transcript expression profiling and principal component analysis showed that samples clustered by tissue type, reflecting transcriptomic features shared across tissues. Comparative analysis demonstrated that the novel transcriptome assembly had contiguity and completeness comparable to those available for pig and minipig breeds. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive transcriptomic resource for the Korean minipig, facilitating further functional analyses.
Project description:Genome-wide CpG island methylation and gene expression patterns in nuclear transfer donor cells in relation to cloning efficiency in swine