Article
Association of 3 polymorphisms in porcine troponin I genes (TNNI1 and TNNI2) with meat quality traits.
Journal of applied genetics - 1 Jan 2010
Yang H, Xu Z Y, Lei M G, Li F E, Deng C Y, Xiong Y Z, Zuo B
Abstract excerpt
The contractile protein troponin I (TnI), a constituent protein of the troponin complex located on the thin filaments of striated muscle, is involved in inhibition of calcium-induced myosin ATPase activity (and thus contraction). TnI-slow (slow-twitch skeletal muscle isoform, named TNNI1) and TnI-fast (fast-twitch skeletal muscle isoform, named TNNI2) are muscle-fiber-type-specific proteins, and expression of...
Topics
- Animals
- Genotype
- Meat
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Quantitative Trait, Heritable
- Swine
- Troponin I
