Background: The grading of Hanwoo (Korean native cattle) is based on four economic traits, and efforts have been continuously made to improve the genetic traits associated with these traits. There is a technology to predict the expected grade based on the 4 economic genetic SNP characteristics of Korean cattle calves using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) technology. Selection of highly proliferative, self-renewing, and differentiating satellite cells from cattle is a key technology in the cultured meat industry. Methods: We selected the Hanwoo with high and low-scored of genomic estimated breeding value (GEBV) by using the Hanwoo 50K SNP bead chip. We then isolated the bovine satellite cells from the chuck mass. We then conducted comparative analyses of cell proliferation, immunocytochemistry, qRT-PCR at short- and long-term culture. We also analyzed the differentiation capability at short term culture. Results: Our result showed that the proliferation was significantly high at High scored GEBV (Hs-GEBV) compared to Low scored GEBV (Ls-GEBV) at short- and long-term culture. The expression levels of Pax3 were significantly higher in Hs-GEBV bovine satellite cells at long-term culture. However, there were no significant differences in the expression levels of Pax7 between Hs- and Ls-GEBV bovine satellite cells at short- and long- term culture. The expression levels of MyoG and MyHC were significantly high at Ls-GEBV bovine satellite cells. Conclusions: Our results indicated that selection of bovine satellite cells by Hanwoo 50K SNP bead chip could be effective selection methods for massive producing of satellite cells.

근육의 줄기세포라고 알려진 근육위성세포(satellite cells, SCs)는 근육의 성장과 발달 및 구조적, 대사적 형질 형성에 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 연구는 근육에서 추출한 SCs의 in vitro분화 성상과 형질을 분석함으로써 SCs가 근육의 성장 및 재생시 형질 형성에 미치는 영향을 구명하기 위해 수행되었다. 6주령 자돈의 Semitendinosus(ST) 근육의 적색근(red semitendinosus; RST)과 백색근(whitesemitendinosus; WST)에서 SCs를 추출한 후 in vitro 상에서 배양하여 SCs의 증식율, 분화율, 근육 구조단백질인 myosin heavy chain (MyHC) isoforms의 발현 성상을 분석하였다. 추출된 SCs의 숫자는 WST(63 ± 2 × 103 cells/g)보다 RST(79 ± 2 × 103 cells/g)에서 높게 (P<0.01) 나타났다. Celldoubling time은 RST에서 추출된 SCs가 WST보다 낮았고, 분화도 빨라 WST보다 먼저 근섬유를 형성하였으나, 분화 24h 후에는 WST 유래 SCs의 분화율이 RST보다 높게 나타났다(P<0.05). 하지만, 분화48h 후 RST와 WST의 SCs간 분화율은 차이가 없는 것으로 나타났다. MyHC type I isoform의 발현은 RST 유래 SCs에서 WST에 비해 높았으나 (P<0.01), type II isoform은 WST 유래 SCs에서 높게 나타났다 (P<0.05). 이 결과는 in vitro에서 배양된 SCs 에서 분화한 근섬유의 성장패턴 및 형질이 유래 근육의 형질을 그대로 반영한다는 것을 보여주는데, 이는 근육 내에 존재하는 SCs는 유래 근육의 형질을 기억하고 있거나, 특정 형질로만 분화되도록 정해져 있다는 것을 의미한다.

Muscular satellite cell (SC), which is stem cell of postnatal pig, is an important for study of differentiation into adipogenesis, myogenesis, and osteoblastogenesis. In this study, we isolated and examined from pig muscle tissue to determine capacity in proliferate, differentiate, and expression of various genes. Porcine satellite cells (PSC) were isolated from semimembranosus (SM) muscles of 90∼100 days old pigs according to standard conditions. The cell proliferation increased in multi-potent cell by Masson’s, oil red O, and Alizarin red staining respectively. We per-formed the expression levels of differentiation related genes using real-time PCR. We found that the differentiation into adipocyte increased expression levels of both fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4) and peroxisome proliferator- acti-vated receptor gamma (PPARγ) genes (p<0.01). Myocyte increased the expression levels of the myosin heavy chain (MHC), myogenic factor 5 (Myf5), myogenic regulatory factor (MyoD), and Myogenic factor 4 (myogenin) (p<0.01). Osteo-blast increased the expression levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) (p<0.01). Finally, porcine satellite cells were indu-ced to differentiate towards adipogenic, myogenic, and osteoblastogenic lineages. Our results suggest that muscle satellite cell in porcine may influence cell fate. Understanding the progression of PSC may lead to improved strat-egies for augmenting meat quality.