Project description:To characterize breed-specific difference among four Korean native chicken breeds and White Leghorn, we measured their transcriptomes at liver tissue using Affymetrix Chicken gene 1.0 ST array platform.
2015-12-31 | GSE63389 | GEO
Project description:Whole genome sequencing analysis of Korean native chicken
Project description:Anim Genet. 2009 Feb;40(1):115-8. Epub 2008 Oct 17. Differentially expressed transcripts in adipose tissue between Korean native pig and Yorkshire breeds. Moon JK, Kim KS, Kim JJ, Choi BH, Cho BW, Kim TH, Lee CK. Division of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. We measured and compared the transcripts of adipose tissue from Korean native pig (KNP) and Yorkshire (YS) breeds to investigate breed-specific transcription changes. We employed both the Affymetrix porcine genome array and quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). We found eight genes showing significant changes between the two breeds. Based on a literature review, these genes were indicative of differences in extracellular structure density and differences in the potential to metabolize xenobiotic chemicals and lipids. The differentially expressed genes indicated that KNP has a lower extracellular structure density and a lower potential to metabolize xenobiotic chemicals than YS. PMID: 18945290
Project description:The coat color of mammals is determined by the melanogenesis pathway, which is responsible for maintaining the balance between black-brown eumelanin and yellow-reddish phaeomelanin. It is also believed that the color of the bovine nose is regulated in a similar manner; however, the molecular mechanism underlying pigment deposition in the black nose has yet to be elucidated. The aim of the present study was to identify melanogenesis-associated genes that are differentially expressed in the black vs. yellow nose of native Korean cows. Experiment, Yellow nose vs. Black nose HanWoo
Project description:The human iris tissue is a thin, circular structure in the eye and it is made up of a pigmented epithelial structure. It is a protected internal organ of the eye, located behind the cornea and the aqueous humour. Iris serves main function to control the diameter, size of the pupil and regulation of light exposure to the internal eye structures. Damage or absent iris always results in allowing excess amount of light into the eye which causes medical problem for the patient and also a psychological problem due to strange eye with black hole. A damaged or congenitally defective iris does not function well which results in poor quality of vision. Although different efforts have been made to elucidate the different parts of the human eye proteome in depth, the protein composition of the human iris tissue remains largely unexplored. We have performed a comprehensive analysis of the human iris tissue employing protein and peptide fractionation methods followed by LC-MS/MS identifying 4918 proteins. Bioinformatics analysis revealed that protein components of the iris tissue participated in a plethora of biological process highlighting cell signal transduction, communication, metabolism, energy pathways protein metabolism cell growth and maintenance, transport and immune response activities. We also compared the proteins of iris tissue with high throughput studies on other parts of eye and plasma proteome, which resulted in identifying proteins unique to iris. To our knowledge, this study is the first attempt to profile the global proteome of the human iris tissue. Taken together, these results increase our knowledge about the molecular composition of the human iris tissue and may be useful to understand the molecular basis of the iris and the baseline proteome described in this study should serve as a resource for future research in iris tissue