Figure 1.
Cholesterol metabolism was modulated by Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) infection indicated by transcriptional profiling of piglet livers. (A) PEDV RNA expression was determined by Quantitative Real-Time PCR (qRT-PCR) analysis in the jejunum and liver tissues of PEDV-infected and control piglets. (B) Volcano plot visualization of the hepatic transcriptome measured by RNA-seq analysis. (C) Genes involved in the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway were among the most enriched pathways based on gene ontology (GO) analysis. (D) The gene-set enrichment analysis (GSEA) plot of the differentially expressed genes in the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway of livers from PEDV-infected piglets compared to the controls. False-discovery rate (FDR).