Transcriptomic changes in Pelteobagrus vachelli muscle and brain induced by hypoxia

The present NGST, iTRAQ and Q-TOF MS platform should provide unprecedented resources to address such questions as to how hypoxic condition affects gene, miRNA, protein, and metabolite expression and changes the molecular pathways, and whether miRNAs participate in this process. For this purpose, we characterise transcriptomic, miRNAomic, proteomic and metabonomic sequencing of control- and hypoxia-treated P. vachelli muscles and brains to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of hypoxia adaptation. We were able to find the predicted miRNA-mRNA-protein-metabolite regulatory network using bioinformatics analysis and miRNA prediction algorithms (Fig. 1). This is the first report on integrated analysis of transcriptome, miRNAome, and proteome, and metabolome in fishes and as such offers deeper insight into the hypoxia molecular mechanisms. We provide a good case study with which to analyse mRNA, miRNA, protein ,and metabolite expression and profile non-model fish species.