Analyzing the Expression of the Transcriptome in Adipose Tissue of Fat- and Thin-tailed Sheep

Overview

Journal Vet Anim Sci

Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Date 2024 Sep 10

PMID 39253697

Authors

Sana Farhadi

Karim Hasanpur

Jalil Shodja Ghias

Valiollah Palangi

Maximilian Lackner

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Abstract

Significant efforts have been made to understand how fat deposition in sheep tail is regulated in genetic, transcriptomic, physiologic, biochemical, and metabolic levels in order to elucidate the complex mechanisms underlying the energy storage, lipid metabolism in adipose tissue, adaptability to harsh environments, and evolutionary domestication. Through RNA-seq data analysis, we are able to compare the gene expression of fat-tailed sheep versus thin-tailed sheep breeds in an acceptable resolution at transcriptome level. The purpose of this study was to compare the transcriptomes of Ghezel (fat-tailed) and Zel (thin-tailed) sheep. Total RNA from subcutaneous and tail tissue samples from healthy lambs was sequenced (150b PE) to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the two mentioned tissues and between the Ghezel and Zel sheep breeds. Further downstream pathway and network analyses were conducted afterwards. The results uncovered the association of the most important DEGs such as , and with cellular signaling pathways of lipids metabolism. It seems that the gene plays an important role in the differential deposition of lipid in the tails of two phenotypically different sheep breeds. Although the detail of gene expression in the tail and subcutaneous tissues of two morphologically different breeds was decoded here, to fully understand how differential expression of the gene affects the fat synthesis, further studies are needed.

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