Table 1.
Experimental design.
Table 2.
Ingredients and nutrient levels of experimental diets.
Table 3.
Analyzed AA composition of the experimental diets (mg/g, as-fed basis).
Table 4.
Primers used for real-time PCR.
Table 5.
Antibodies and dilution used for Western blot analyses.
Table 6.
Effects of genotype, diet, and developmental phase on amino acid concentrations in longissimus dorsi muscle of pigs (mg/g, as-fresh basis; n = 8).
Table 7.
Effects of genotype, diet, and developmental phase on amino acid concentrations in biceps femoris muscle of pigs (mg/g, as-fresh basis; n = 8).
Table 8.
Effects of genotype, diet, and phase on expression of muscle growth-related genes in muscle tissues of pigs (n = 8).
Table 9.
P-values of ratios of phosphorylated- to total-protein abundance of mTOR pathway in longissimus dorsi muscle of pigs.
Fig 1.
Representative Western blot analysis of total and phosphorylated (A) mTOR (Ser2448), (B) AKT (Ser473), (C) 4EBP1 (Thr70), (D) p70S6K, and β-actin in pig longissimus dorsi muscle.
GB diet, lower protein-Chinese conventional diet; NRC diet, higher protein-NRC diet.
Fig 2.
Representative Western blot analysis of the expression of the proteins listed in Fig 1 in pig biceps femoris muscle.
Table 10.
P-values of ratios of phosphorylated- to total-protein abundance of mTOR pathway in biceps femoris muscle of pigs.