China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2021, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (12): 4508-4519.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2021.12.019

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Identification of Biological Pathways and Candidate Genes Related to Porcine Intramuscular Fat Deposition Using Transcriptome Sequencing

SUN Jingxi, PANG Shilong, SUN Jingchun, CHU Guiyan   

  1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
  • Received:2021-07-04 Online:2021-12-20 Published:2021-12-02

Abstract: The aim of this study was using transcriptome to analyze the deposition mechanism of porcine intramuscular fat (IMF) content, in order to find the pathways and candidate genes related to IMF deposition.The whole sib individuals with large differences in IMF content were selected for double terminal chain specific transcriptome sequencing, and the related genes were screened by edgeR software.ClusterProfiler software was used to perform GO function enrich and KEGG pathway analysis on differential genes, and molecular module (MCODE) analysis was used to mine the intramuscular fat-related candidate genes.The results showed that a total of 474 differentially expressed genes were screened, of which 329 were significantly up-regulated and 145 were significantly down-regulated, enriched and involved in 20 biological processes.Combined with GO network analysis, a total of 15 IMF-related processes were screened, mainly including:Regulation of ion transmembrane transport, regulation of glucose transmembrane transport membrane potential and fatty acid metabolism.MCODE analysis results showed that the differentially expressed genes PPP1CB, CLCA1, COX4I1, SGK1, PAK, PC, KRAS, MAST1, VWC2, CACNG family genes, especially PPP1CB, CLCA1, COX4I1, KRAS and CACNG family genes, might be key genes for regulating IMF, and could be used as IMF candidate gene for further study.In conclusion, this study had identified some new pathways for the action of IMF and screened out candidate genes related to IMF content, which could provide materials for the study of IMF deposition mechanism and reference for the breeding of high-quality meat quality in pigs.

Key words: pigs; IMF; deposition; transcriptome sequencing

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