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Elucidation of the small RNA component of the transcriptome 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Lu C Tej SS Luo S Haudenschild CD Meyers BC Green PJ 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,309(5740):1567-1569
Small RNAs play important regulatory roles in most eukaryotes, but only a small proportion of these molecules have been identified. We sequenced more than two million small RNAs from seedlings and the inflorescence of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Known and new microRNAs (miRNAs) were among the most abundant of the nonredundant set of more than 75,000 sequences, whereas more than half represented lower abundance small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) that match repetitive sequences, intergenic regions, and genes. Individual or clusters of highly regulated small RNAs were readily observed. Targets of antisense RNA or miRNA did not appear to be preferentially associated with siRNAs. Many genomic regions previously considered featureless were found to be sites of numerous small RNAs. 相似文献
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In the Drosophila germline, repeat-associated small interfering RNAs (rasiRNAs) ensure genomic stability by silencing endogenous selfish genetic elements such as retrotransposons and repetitive sequences. Whereas small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) derive from both the sense and antisense strands of their double-stranded RNA precursors, rasiRNAs arise mainly from the antisense strand. rasiRNA production appears not to require Dicer-1, which makes microRNAs (miRNAs), or Dicer-2, which makes siRNAs, and rasiRNAs lack the 2',3' hydroxy termini characteristic of animal siRNA and miRNA. Unlike siRNAs and miRNAs, rasiRNAs function through the Piwi, rather than the Ago, Argonaute protein subfamily. Our data suggest that rasiRNAs protect the fly germline through a silencing mechanism distinct from both the miRNA and RNA interference pathways. 相似文献
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依赖于RNA的RNA聚合酶(RDR)能够以单链RNA为模版合成互补RNA链,产生双链RNA。双链RNA在细胞内被类似RNaseⅢ的酶DCL加工成20～24 nt的小分子干扰RNA(siRNA)。siRNA可以在转录水平或转录后水平抑制靶基因的表达。RDR通过基因沉默途径参与植物的生长发育调节、逆境应答以及表观遗传修饰等许多生物学过程。加深对植物RDR表达模式、生化活性及生物学功能等方面的理解将有利于植物基因沉默的发展和运用。 相似文献
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RNAi(RNA interference,RNA干扰)是一种高度保守的由小分子RNA介导的基因沉默过程。根据介导RNAi的小RNA长度以及结合Argonaute(AGO)蛋白家族成员的不同,将小RNA分为miRNA(microRNA)、siRNA(small interfering RNA)和piRNA(Piwi-interacting RNA)3类。根据近年来取得的研究进展,系统地阐述了这3类小RNA的基因组来源及其加工产生机制,归纳总结了这3类小RNA之间的区别和联系,并结合当前RNAi应用于疾病治疗存在的问题提出了自己的看法。RNAi机制的完善对于生物进化、生长发育及癌症等重大疑难疾病治疗具有重要的应用价值。 相似文献
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Increasingly complex networks of small RNAs act through RNA-interference (RNAi) pathways to regulate gene expression, to mediate antiviral responses, to organize chromosomal domains, and to restrain the spread of selfish genetic elements. Historically, RNAi has been defined as a response to double-stranded RNA. However, some small RNA species may not arise from double-stranded RNA precursors. Yet, like microRNAs and small interfering RNAs, such species guide Argonaute proteins to silencing targets through complementary base-pairing. Silencing can be achieved by corecruitment of accessory factors or through the activity of Argonaute itself, which often has endonucleolytic activity. As a specific and adaptive regulatory system, RNAi is used throughout eukarya, which indicates a long evolutionary history. A likely function of RNAi throughout that history is to protect the genome from both pathogenic and parasitic invaders. 相似文献
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A microRNA in a multiple-turnover RNAi enzyme complex 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
In animals, the double-stranded RNA-specific endonuclease Dicer produces two classes of functionally distinct, tiny RNAs: microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). miRNAs regulate mRNA translation, whereas siRNAs direct RNA destruction via the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. Here we show that, in human cell extracts, the miRNA let-7 naturally enters the RNAi pathway, which suggests that only the degree of complementarity between a miRNA and its RNA target determines its function. Human let-7 is a component of a previously identified, miRNA-containing ribonucleoprotein particle, which we show is an RNAi enzyme complex. Each let-7-containing complex directs multiple rounds of RNA cleavage, which explains the remarkable efficiency of the RNAi pathway in human cells. 相似文献
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Methylation as a crucial step in plant microRNA biogenesis 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Yu B Yang Z Li J Minakhina S Yang M Padgett RW Steward R Chen X 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,307(5711):932-935
Methylation on the base or the ribose is prevalent in eukaryotic ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) and is thought to be crucial for ribosome biogenesis and function. Artificially introduced 2'-O-methyl groups in small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) can stabilize siRNAs in serum without affecting their activities in RNA interference in mammalian cells. Here, we show that plant microRNAs (miRNAs) have a naturally occurring methyl group on the ribose of the last nucleotide. Whereas methylation of rRNAs depends on guide RNAs, the methyltransferase protein HEN1 is sufficient to methylate miRNA/miRNA* duplexes. Our studies uncover a new and crucial step in plant miRNA biogenesis and have profound implications in the function of miRNAs. 相似文献
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Role of the protein moiety of ribonuclease P, a ribonucleoprotein enzyme 总被引：39，自引：0，他引：39
The Bacillus subtilis ribonuclease P consists of a protein and an RNA. At high ionic strength the reaction is protein-independent; the RNA alone is capable of cleaving precursor transfer RNA, but the turnover is slow. Kinetic analyses show that high salt concentrations facilitate substrate binding in the absence of the protein, probably by decreasing the repulsion between the polyanionic enzyme and substrate RNAs, and also slow product release and enzyme turnover. It is proposed that the ribonuclease P protein, which is small and basic, provides a local pool of counter-ions that facilitates substrate binding without interfering with rapid product release. 相似文献
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Kato H Goto DB Martienssen RA Urano T Furukawa K Murakami Y 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,309(5733):467-469
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The expression of short hairpin RNAs in several organisms silences gene expression by targeted mRNA degradation. This RNA interference (RNAi) pathway can also affect the genome, as DNA methylation arises at loci homologous to the target RNA in plants. We demonstrate in fission yeast that expression of a synthetic hairpin RNA is sufficient to silence the homologous locus in trans and causes the assembly of a patch of silent Swi6 chromatin with cohesin. This requires components of the RNAi machinery and Clr4 histone methyltransferase for small interfering RNA generation. A similar process represses several meiotic genes through nearby retrotransposon long terminal repeats (LTRs). These analyses directly implicate interspersed LTRs in regulating gene expression during cellular differentiation. 相似文献
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In Caenorhabditis elegans, an effective RNA interference (RNAi) response requires the production of secondary short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) by RNA-directed RNA polymerases (RdRPs). We cloned secondary siRNAs from transgenic C. elegans lines expressing a single 22-nucleotide primary siRNA. Several secondary siRNAs start a few nucleotides downstream of the primary siRNA, indicating that non-RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex)-cleaved mRNAs are substrates for secondary siRNA production. In lines expressing primary siRNAs with single-nucleotide mismatches, secondary siRNAs do not carry the mismatch but contain the nucleotide complementary to the mRNA. We infer that RdRPs perform unprimed RNA synthesis. Secondary siRNAs are only of antisense polarity, carry 5' di- or triphosphates, and are only in the minority associated with RDE-1, the RNAi-specific Argonaute protein. Therefore, secondary siRNAs represent a distinct class of small RNAs. Their biogenesis depends on RdRPs, and we propose that each secondary siRNA is an individual RdRP product. 相似文献
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A cellular microRNA mediates antiviral defense in human cells 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
Lecellier CH Dunoyer P Arar K Lehmann-Che J Eyquem S Himber C Saïb A Voinnet O 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,308(5721):557-560
In eukaryotes, 21- to 24-nucleotide-long RNAs engage in sequence-specific interactions that inhibit gene expression by RNA silencing. This process has regulatory roles involving microRNAs and, in plants and insects, it also forms the basis of a defense mechanism directed by small interfering RNAs that derive from replicative or integrated viral genomes. We show that a cellular microRNA effectively restricts the accumulation of the retrovirus primate foamy virus type 1 (PFV-1) in human cells. PFV-1 also encodes a protein, Tas, that suppresses microRNA-directed functions in mammalian cells and displays cross-kingdom antisilencing activities. Therefore, through fortuitous recognition of foreign nucleic acids, cellular microRNAs have direct antiviral effects in addition to their regulatory functions. 相似文献
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Ghildiyal M Seitz H Horwich MD Li C Du T Lee S Xu J Kittler EL Zapp ML Weng Z Zamore PD 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2008,320(5879):1077-1081
Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) direct RNA interference (RNAi) in eukaryotes. In flies, somatic cells produce siRNAs from exogenous double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) as a defense against viral infection. We identified endogenous siRNAs (endo-siRNAs), 21 nucleotides in length, that correspond to transposons and heterochromatic sequences in the somatic cells of Drosophila melanogaster. We also detected endo-siRNAs complementary to messenger RNAs (mRNAs); these siRNAs disproportionately mapped to the complementary regions of overlapping mRNAs predicted to form double-stranded RNA in vivo. Normal accumulation of somatic endo-siRNAs requires the siRNA-generating ribonuclease Dicer-2 and the RNAi effector protein Argonaute2 (Ago2). We propose that endo-siRNAs generated by the fly RNAi pathway silence selfish genetic elements in the soma, much as Piwi-interacting RNAs do in the germ line. 相似文献
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《农业科学学报》2016,(11)
Rice stripe virus(RSV) often causes severe rice yield loss in temperate regions of East Asia. Although the correlation of small interfering RNAs(si RNAs) with transgenic virus resistance of plants using RNA interference(RNAi) is known for decades, no systematical research has been done on the profiling of si RNAs from a genomic scale. Our research is aiming to systematically study the RNAi impact in RSV-resistant transgenic rice, which was generated by introducing an inverted repeat construct that targets RSV nucleocapsid protein(NCP) gene. In this paper, three independent RSV-retsistant transgenic rice lines were generated, their stable integration of the T-DNA fragment and the expression of si RNAs were confirmed by Southern blotting and Northern blotting analyses, and the majority of si RNAs were in lengths of 21, 22, and 24 nucleotides(nt), which have validated a connection between the presence of the RSV NCP homologous si RNAs and the RSV resistance in those transgenic rice lines. In one of these transgenic lines(T4-B1), the T-DNA fragment was found to have been inserted at chromosome 1 of the rice genome, substituting the rice genome fragment from 32 158 773 to 32 158 787 nt. Bioinformatics analysis of small RNA-Seq data on the T4-B1 line also confirmed the large population of NCP-derived si RNAs in transgenic plants, and the RSV-infected library(T4-B1-V) possessed more si RNAs than its mock inoculated libraries(T4-B1-VF), these results indicating the inverted repeat construct and RSV could introduce abundance of si RNAs in transgenic rice. Moreover, a varied expression level of specific si RNAs was found among different segments of the NCP gene template, about 47% of NCP-derived si RNAs reads aligned with the fragment from 594 to 832 nt(239 nt in length) in NCP gene(969 nt in length) in the T4-B1-V, indicating a potential usage of hotspot regions for RNAi silencing in future research. In conclusion, as the first study to address the si RNA profile in RSV-resistant transgenic plant using next generation sequencing(NGS) technique, we confirmed that the massive abundance of si RNA derived from the inverted repeat of NCP is the major reason for RSV-resistance. 相似文献
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FAN Shan-shan LI Qian-nan GUO Guang-jun GAO Jian-chang WANG Xiao-xuan GUO Yanmei John C. Snyder DU Yong-chen 《农业科学学报》2015,14(1):42-49
Micro RNAs(mi RNAs) are ~21 nucleotide(nt), endogenous RNAs that regulate gene expression in plants. Increasing evidence suggests that mi RNAs play an important role in species-specific development in plants. However, the detailed mi RNA profile divergence has not been performed among tomato species. In this study, the small RNA(s RNA) profiles of Solanum lycopersicum cultivar 9706 and Solanum habrochaites species PI 134417 were obtained by deep sequencing. Sixty-three known mi RNA families were identified from these two species, of which 39 were common. Further mi RNA profile comparison showed that 24 known non-conserved mi RNA families were species-specific between these two tomato species. In addition, six conserved mi RNA families displayed an apparent divergent expression pattern between the two tomato species. Our results suggested that species-specific, non-conserved mi RNAs and divergent expression of conserved mi RNAs might contribute to developmental changes and phenotypic variation between the two tomato species. Twenty new mi RNAs were also identified in S. lycopersicum. This research significantly increases the number of known mi RNA families in tomato and provides the first set of small RNAs in S. habrochaites. It also suggests that mi RNAs have an important role in species-specific plant developmental regulation. 相似文献