The AMPK signaling pathway is associated with the intramuscular fat trait in pigs
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- Subject Areas
- Agricultural Science, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology
- Keywords
- AMPK, PIg, Intramuscular fat, qRT-PCR arrays, Data mining
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- © 2018 Yao et al.
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- 2018. The AMPK signaling pathway is associated with the intramuscular fat trait in pigs. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26976v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26976v1
Abstract
Background. Intramuscular fat (IMF) is an important economic trait for pork quality and a complex quantitative trait regulated by multiple genes. The objective of this work was to investigate the novel transcriptional effects of a multigene pathways on IMF deposition in the longissimus dorsi(LD) muscles of pigs.
Methods. Potential signaling pathways were screened by mining data from three gene expression profiles in the GEO database. We designed quantitative real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) arrays for the candidate signaling pathways to verify the results in the LD muscles of three pig breeds with different IMF contents(Large White, Berkshire and Min).
Results. The AMPK signaling pathway was screened via bioinformatic analysis. Ten key hub genes of this signaling pathway(AMPK, ADIPOR1, ADIPOR2, LKB1, CAMKKβ, CPT1A, CPT1B, PGC-1α, CD36 and ACC1) were differentially expressed. Statistical analyses revealed that AMPK pathway activity clearly varied among the three pig breeds.
Conclusion. Based on these results, we concluded that the activation of the AMPK signaling pathway plays a positive role in reducing IMF deposition in pigs.
Author Comment
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