Circulating miRNA diversity, origin and response to changing metabolic and reproductive states, new insights from the rainbow trout
Authors:
Emilie Cardona, Cervin Guyomar, Thomas Desvignes3, Jérôme Montfort , Samia Guendouz, John H. Postlethwait , Sandrine Skiba-Cassy, Julien Bobe
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The researchers conducted a comprehensive study of circulating miRNAs (c-mRNAs) in biological fluids of the rainbow trout, with the aim of using c-miRNAs as biomarkers of reproductive and metabolic states of the fish species. The authors demonstrate strong fluid-specific miRNA signatures in plasma and ovarian fluids in particular. They identify potential biomarkers in response to high feeding rates in plasma (indicating active myogenesis) and biomarkers in response to ovulation ane egg quality in ovarian fluid.
PippinHT was used to isolate miRNA libraries (126-169 bp) from NEXTFlex small RNA kits (Perkin Elmer/Bioo Scientific).
Author Affiliations:
INRAE, LPGP, Fish Physiology and Genomics, Rennes, France
INRAE, Univ. Pau & Pays Adour, Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, France
Institute of Neurosciences, University of Oregon, Eugene OR
MGX, UMR, Institute of Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France
GenPhySE, University of Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, Castanet-Tolosan, France
bioRxiv preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.09.434572
Chromosomal rearrangements but no change of genes and transposable elements repertoires in an invasive forest-pathogenic fungus
Authors:
Arthur Demené , Benoît Laurent , Sandrine Cros-Arteil , Christophe Boury , Cyril Dutech
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The authors present a high-quality de novo genome assembly of Cryphonectria parasitica, and invasive fungus that causes chestnut blight, using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing. The assembly was compared to a recently published reference genome. The comparison showed little difference in gene and transposable element repertoires but showed significant chromosomal rearrangements. The authors suggest that the differences likely have implications with regard to gene regulation and mating of invasive fungi.
BluePippin was used to High-Pass size select (>20KB) using the High Pass Plus cassettes prior to library preparation for the Oxford Nanopore GridION.
Author Affiliations:
BIOGECO, INRAE, Univ. Bordeaux, Cestas France
BGPI, INRAE, CIRAD, Montpellier FRANCE.
Citation:
bioRxiv preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.09.434572
Resetting of 24-nt siRNA landscape is initiated before the first zygotic division in rice
January 2021
Authors:
Chenxin Li, Jonathan I. Gent, Hengping Xu, Hong Fu, Scott D. Russell, and Venkatesan Sundaresan
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In this preprint, the authors report on a study of siRNA profiling in zygotes from the rice plant. They report that the zygote has widespread siRNA loci that correlate to the endosperm rather than the egg, and that these loci have abundant CHH methylation. A small fraction of siRNA “siren” loci correlate to the egg and account for 75% of the zygote siRNAs and are not associated with methylation. The results suggest that the resetting of the gametic epigenome toward the canonical vegetative profile initiates before the first embryonic division.
PippinHT is used to isolate the microRNA libraries from NEXTFlex small RNA kits (Perkin Elmer/Bioo Scientific) prior to Illumina sequencing.
Author Affiliations:
Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, CA
Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA
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bioRxiv preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.31.275958
A non-radioactive, improved PAR-CLIP and small RNA cDNA library preparation protocol
January 2021
Authors:
Dimitrios G Anastasakis, Alexis Jacob, Parthena Konstantinidou, Kazuyuki Meguro, Duncan Claypool, Pavol Cekan, Astrid D Haase, Markus Hafner
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The authors offer an improvement to the PAR-CLIP method that is more streamlined and does not require the use of radioactive labels. CLIP-seq (CrossLinking and ImmunoPrecipitation) is used to evaluate protein-RNA interactions during gene expression. PAR-CLIP uses in vivo labelling of RNA with photoreactive nucleosides . The method outlined in this protocol (fPAR-CLIP) uses direct ligation of fluorescent adapters to RNA/protein complexes, followed by the isolation of the RNA. The original PAR-CLIP method requires size fractionation on denaturing polyacrylamide gels. The fPAR-CLIP method presented here eliminates this requirement, is more sensitive, and is completed in 2 rather than 4 days.
Pippin Prep is used to size select PCR fragments and eliminate primers and adapters.
Author Affiliations:
Laboratory of Muscle Stem Cells and Gene Regulation, National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease, NIH, Bethesda MD
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, Bethesda MD
Laboratory of Clinical Immunology & Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda MD
MultiplexDX, Bratislava, Slovakia
Citation:
Nucleic Acids Research
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab011
isoCirc catalogs full-length circular RNA isoforms in human transcriptomes
January 2021
Authors:
Ruijiao Xin, Yan Gao, Yuan Gao, Robert Wang, Kathryn E. Kadash-Edmondson, Bo Liu, Yadong Wang, Lan Lin & Yi Xing
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The authors present a protocol, isoCirc, for the full-length sequence determination of circular RNAs. The method features rolling circle amplification followed by nanopore sequencing, and includes a description of an integrated computation pipeline. A catalogue of over 100,000 circular RNAs across 12 human tissues and the HEK293 cell line was produced, including ~40,000 isoforms.
BluePippin was used to size select the RCA products after debranching prior to ONT MinION library prep.
Author Affiliations:
Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA
Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Center for Bioinformatics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Citation:
Nature Communications
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20459-8