TY - JOUR AU - Liu, Yingkai AU - Li, Mingzhou AU - Ma, Jideng AU - Zhang, Jie AU - Zhou, Chaowei AU - Wang, Tao AU - Gao, Xiaolian AU - Li, Xuewei PY - 2013 DA - 2013/02/18 TI - Identification of differences in microRNA transcriptomes between porcine oxidative and glycolytic skeletal muscles JO - BMC Molecular Biology SP - 7 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a type of non-coding small RNA ~22 nucleotides in length that regulate the expression of protein coding genes at the post-transcriptional level. Glycolytic and oxidative myofibers, the two main types of skeletal muscles, play important roles in metabolic health as well as in meat quality and production in the pig industry. Previous expression profile studies of different skeletal muscle types have focused on these aspects of mRNA and proteins; nonetheless, an explanation of the miRNA transcriptome differences between these two distinct muscles types is long overdue. SN - 1471-2199 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2199-14-7 DO - 10.1186/1471-2199-14-7 ID - Liu2013 ER -