Expression Marker-Based Strategy to Improve Beef Quality

Table 2

Expression markers of tenderness, juiciness, and flavour in the longissimus thoracis of young Charolais bulls (adapted from [9]).

Symbol	Gene name	Tenderness	Juiciness	Flavour
Upregulated transcripts
C:6970	Homo sapiens chromosome 5 clone CTD-2151N11
CACNA1C	Calcium channel, voltage-dependent, L type, R 1C subunit
Cbr2	Carbonyl reductase 2
CCNA1	Cyclin A1
CGREF1	Cell growth regulator with EF-hand domain 1
CPT1B	Carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1B (muscle)
FLJ12193	Hypothetical protein FLJ12193
Ireb2	Iron-responsive element binding protein 2
JMJD1B	Jumonji domain containing 1B
LAMA3	Laminin, R 3
MPDZ	Multiple PDZ domain protein
NDUFB4	NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) 1 f3 subcomplex, 4, 15 kDa
Npm3	Nucleophosmin/nucleoplasmin, 3
OTOR	Otoraplin
PRKAG1	Protein kinase, AMP-activated, γ 1 non catalytic subunit
PRRX2	Paired related homeobox 2
TRIM55	Tripartite motif-containing 55
Downregulated transcripts
CSRP3	Cysteine- and glycine-rich protein 3 (cardiac LIM protein)
DNAJA1	DnaJ (Hsp40) homologue, subfamily A, member 1

Only differentially expressed transcripts of which the abundance was correlated with a quality attribute (asterisk) are presented in the table. ; ; ; (−): negative correlation.