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In the present study, we determined the complete mitochondrial genome of Huananpotamon lichuanense (Decapoda: Brachyura) for the first time. The genome is 15,380bp in length and typically consists of 37 genes. When the gene order was compared to the ancestral crustacean type, two tRNA genes (tRNAHis and tRNAGln) were rearranged in H. lichuanense, and the translocation of tRNAGln appeared only in Potamoidea...
Adipokines are secreted by adipose tissue and play an important role in the regulation of lipid metabolism. However, the information regarding adipokines in goats is limited. PPARγ is a key gene in adipocyte differentiation and activates adipokine genes. Rosiglitazone is a PPARγ agonist and can promote the expression of PPARγ to increase the expression of lipogenesis-related genes. Therefore, investigation...
The contribution of risk alleles to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may vary between populations. This study aimed to investigate the role of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in HHIP on COPD susceptibility in the Chinese Mongolian and Han populations from Inner Mongolia autonomous region. In this case-control study, five SNPs in HHIP gene were detected in 700 COPD patients (350...
Increasing evidence has demonstrated that aberrant microRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in the pathogenesis of most human malignancies. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of miR-30b-5p in human RCC. In the current study, we firstly found that the expression levels of miR-30b-5p were lower in both RCC tissues and cell lines. Then, we found that enforced miR-30b-5p expression and knockdown...
Accumulating evidence indicates that human circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) could serve as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in various cancers. We aimed to explore novel miRNA biomarkers in the blood of breast cancer patients based on miRNA profiling. A miRCURY™ LNA Array was used to identify differentially altered miRNAs in the whole blood of breast cancer patients (n=6) and healthy controls (n=6)...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most prevalent and malignant type of liver cancer. Besides the high incidence, the resistance to chemotherapy is a major problem that leads to the high mortality of HCC. Recently, aberrant expression of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) has been considered as a primary feature of many types of cancer. However, the genome-wide expression pattern and associated functional...
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) has been recognized as a cause of severe, sometimes life-threatening disease in congenitally infected newborns as well as in immunocompromised individuals. However, the molecular mechanisms of the host-virus interaction remain poorly understood. Here, we profiled the expression of mRNAs and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in THP-1 cells using the emerging RNA-seq to investigate...
Neural stem cells (NSCs) are self-renewing, multipotent and undifferentiated precursors that retain the capacity for differentiation into both glial and neuronal lineages. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that play important roles in cell development, differentiation and apoptosis. Recent studies have shown that TCF3 affects neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation. In this study,...
The emerin protein is a nuclear membrane protein and has important functions in muscle development, regeneration, and cell signal transduction. However, knowledge regarding emerin in the domestic animal is limited. In this study, we cloned and characterized the pig emerin (EMD) gene. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis revealed that the EMD gene was expressed at the highest level in the heart and fat...
The MyoD1, MyoG, Myf5, and Mrf4 proteins belong to the family of muscle regulatory factors (MRFs) and play important roles in skeletal muscle hyperplasia and hypertrophy. We hypothesized that exercise would affect MRF mRNA and protein abundance in postnatal chicken skeletal muscle driving molecular changes that could ultimately lead to increased muscle fiber diameter. At day (d) 43, twelve hundred...
In the present study, we investigated the genetic polymorphisms of 20 novel STR loci and one previously studied locus in the Xibe ethnic group from China, as well as its genetic relationships with neighboring populations. Totally 226 unrelated healthy Xibe individuals were involved in the study. At least 5 alleles were observed for each locus, with the minimum and maximum allelic frequencies of 0...
TBC1D1 plays an important role in numerous fundamental physiological processes including muscle metabolism, regulation of whole body energy homeostasis and lipid metabolism. The objective of the present study was to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in chicken TBC1D1 using 128 Erlang mountainous chickens and to determine if these SNPs are associated with carcass traits. The approach...
Gene encoding for α-carbonic anhydrases (α-CAs) and their functions in fundamental metabolism and biomineralization are widely identified in mollusks. However, the transcriptional regulation of α-CA genes in response to various environmental conditions remains unknown. In the present study, we characterized a cDNA encoding for an α-CA (HcCA) from the freshwater pearl mussel Hyriopsis cumingii. The...
Actin capping protein beta (CAPZB) protein was identified with considerable differences in the longissimus dorsi muscle between Large White and Meishan pigs using proteomics approach. However, in pigs, the information on CAPZB is very limited. In this study, we cloned and characterized the porcine actin capping protein beta (CAPZB) gene. In addition, we present two novel porcine CAPZB splice variants...
Apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic subunit 2 (APOBEC2) plays an important role in regulating and maintaining muscle development in mammals. In this study, we evaluated APOBEC2 mRNA abundance and protein expression and the results indicated that APOBEC2 mRNA was most abundant in skeletal and cardiac muscle, with relatively low expression in the gonads, gizzard and subcutaneous fat tissues...
The actinin-associated LIM protein (ALP) subfamily has important functions in cell signal transduction, cell proliferation, and integration of cytoskeletal architecture. To detect their functions in pig skeletal muscle, we cloned and characterized the pig ALP subfamily genes, drew their genomic structure maps, and detected their tissue expression patterns. We identified a new spliced variant of PDLIM3...
The protein nucleobindin-2 (NUCB2) was identified over a decade ago and recently raised great interest as its derived peptide nesfatin-1 was shown to reduce food intake and body weight in rodents. However, the involvement of NUCB2 in feeding behavior has not well been studied in fish. In the present study, we characterized the structure, distribution, and meal responsive of NUCB2A/nesfatin-1 in Ya-fish...
Few genome-wide association studies have considered interactions between multiple genetic variants and environmental factors associated with disease. The interaction was examined between a glucagon gene (GCG) polymorphism and smoking, alcohol consumption and physical activity and the association with risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in a case–control study of Chinese Han subjects. The rs12104705...
Ghrelin is a gut/brain hormone with a unique acyl modification and various biological functions in fish and mammals. The objectives of this project were to identify ghrelin gene organization, study tissue specific ghrelin mRNA expression and investigate the short- (0, 0.5, 1.5, 3, 6, 9, 12h post-fasting) and long- (1, 3, 5, 7days) term fasting as well as refeeding after a 7day fasting induced changes...
Melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) has an important role in the regulation of energy homeostasis in both mammals and fish. In this study, MC4R was characterized in S. prenanti (Schizothorax prenanti) and designated as SpMC4R. SpMC4R cDNA is composed of 1004 nucleotides with a 978 nucleotide open reading frame encoding a protein of 326 amino acids. The SpMC4R contained predicted regions that were structural...
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