Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 213-224. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193704

Special Issue: Animal husbandry

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Screening and Characterization of Hypothalamic Differential lncRNA Associated with Residual Feed Intake in Beef Cattle

SU Zonghua, ZHOU Xiaonan, WANG Xiaowei, YANG Chaoyun, DING Yanling, ZHANG Yanfeng, LI Chenglong, ZENG Ling, MING Wenxuan, SHI Yuangang, KANG Xiaolong   

  1. College of Animal Science and Technology,Ningxia University,Yinchuan 750021,China
  • Received:2023-03-26 Published:2023-08-28

Abstract:

Residual feed intake is one of the most important indicators used to evaluate the efficiency of feed utilization in livestock,which is regulated by various factors such as digestive metabolism,intestinal immunity,locomotion and hypothalamic feeding center.lncRNAs are a class of non-coding RNA molecules involved in numerous biological processes and have been extensively studied in phenotypic studies such as diseases,but it is still unclear about the characteristics of hypothalamic lncRNA expression and how it is linked to the regulation of feed intake in cattle.The aim of this study was to screen for RFI-related lncRNAs in the hypothalamus and to investigate the previous regulatory relationship between lncRNAs and feed utilization.The experiment selected extremely high and low RFI Angus cattle as the material,collected hypothalamic tissue samples,and carried out RFI-related differentially expressed lncRNA screening and regulatory pathway analysis after total RNA extraction,library construction and high-throughput sequencing.105 differentially expressed lncRNAs were identified,of which 46 lncRNAs were down-regulated and 59 were up-regulated in the low RFI group.These differentially expressed lncRNAs were predicted to target genes mainly enriched in mitochondria-related oxidative phosphorylation and thermogenesis pathways;these differential lncRNA predicted target genes were mainly enriched in mitochondria-related oxidative phosphorylation and thermogenesis pathways;meanwhile the related genes(ATPase,respiratory chain complex)in the above pathways were mainly associated with differentially expressed lncRNAs(LNC_006637,LNC_007569,LNC_012079,LNC_005449).Some genes(NDUFA4,SDHD,UQCRH)in the network constructed by protein interaction network analysis had also been reported to be associated with livestock feed efficiency.The above results suggested that the hypothalamic tissue associated with residual feed intake in cattle might regulate mitochondrial function and energy utilization in the body mainly through thermogenesis and oxidative phosphorylation signaling pathways,but more cellular experiments were needed to verify this.

Key words: Beef cattle, Residual feed intake, lncRNA, Hypothalamus, Bioinformatics

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SU Zonghua, ZHOU Xiaonan, WANG Xiaowei, YANG Chaoyun, DING Yanling, ZHANG Yanfeng, LI Chenglong, ZENG Ling, MING Wenxuan, SHI Yuangang, KANG Xiaolong. Screening and Characterization of Hypothalamic Differential lncRNA Associated with Residual Feed Intake in Beef Cattle[J]. Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica, 2023, 38(4): 213-224. doi: 10.7668/hbnxb.20193704.

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