2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Transcriptomic profiling of skeletal muscle microRNA involved in muscle fiber type specification
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22580326
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Applied animal science
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| Research Institution | National Agriculture and Food Research Organization |
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Principal Investigator |
MUROYA Susumu 独立行政法人農業・食品産業技術総合研究機構, 畜産草地研究所畜産物研究領域, 上席研究員 (50355062)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | ウシ / 筋線維型 / 骨格筋 / マイクロRNA |
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| Research Abstract |
To elucidate roles of miRNA in bovine muscle type specification and maintenance, we sought to determine differentially expressed miRNA between semitendinosus (STD) and masseter (MS) muscles from 3 Japanese black cattle by massively parallel sequencing. Differential gene expression of myosin heavy chain (MyHC) isoforms confirmed that STD and MS were MyHC-2x- and MyHC-1-abundant muscles, respectively. In total, 192 known miRNA and 20 potential new bovine miRNA were obtained from the sequencing. The differentially expressed miRNA with more than 2-fold difference in each muscle were identified. In particular, miR-196a and miR-885 were exclusively expressed in STD muscle, which was validated by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (P=0.045 and P<0.001, respectively), whereas a slow type-directing miR-208b was highly expressed in MS compared with STD (false discovery rate<0.05). In addition, 16 potential novel miRNA were mapped and confirmed for their precursor structures by computational analyses.
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