PUBLICATION
Deep sequencing of small RNA facilitates tissue and sex associated microRNA discovery in zebrafish
- Authors
- Vaz, C., Wee, C.W., Lee, G.P., Ingham, P.W., Tanavde, V., Mathavan, S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-151119-9
- Date
- 2015
- Source
- BMC Genomics 16: 950 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Ingham, Philip
- Keywords
- Zebrafish; Tissue associated miRNA; Sex associated miRNA; Novel miRNA prediction
- Datasets
- GEO:GSE57169
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Female
- Gene Expression Profiling
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing*
- Humans
- Male
- MicroRNAs/genetics*
- Organ Specificity
- Sequence Analysis, RNA*
- Sex Characteristics*
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish/physiology
- PubMed
- 26574018 Full text @ BMC Genomics
Citation
Vaz, C., Wee, C.W., Lee, G.P., Ingham, P.W., Tanavde, V., Mathavan, S. (2015) Deep sequencing of small RNA facilitates tissue and sex associated microRNA discovery in zebrafish. BMC Genomics. 16:950.
Abstract
Background The role of microRNAs in gene regulation has been well established. The extent of miRNA regulation also increases with increasing genome complexity. Though the number of genes appear to be equal between human and zebrafish, substantially less microRNAs have been discovered in zebrafish compared to human (miRBase Release 19). It appears that most of the miRNAs in zebrafish are yet to be discovered.
Results We sequenced small RNAs from brain, gut, liver, ovary, testis, eye, heart and embryo of zebrafish. In brain, gut and liver sequencing was done sex specifically. Majority of the sequenced reads (16-62 %) mapped to known miRNAs, with the exception of ovary (5.7 %) and testis (7.8 %). Using the miRNA discovery tool (miRDeep2), we discovered novel miRNAs from the unannotated reads that ranged from 7.6 to 23.0 %, with exceptions of ovary (51.4 %) and testis (55.2 %). The prediction tool identified a total of 459 novel pre-miRNAs. We compared expression of miRNAs between different tissues and between males and females to identify tissue associated and sex associated miRNAs respectively. These miRNAs could serve as putative biomarkers for these tissues. The brain and liver had highest number of tissue associated (22) and sex associated (34) miRNAs, respectively.
Conclusions This study comprehensively identifies tissue and sex associated miRNAs in zebrafish. Further, we have discovered 459 novel pre-miRNAs (~30 % seed homology to human miRNA) as a genomic resource which can facilitate further investigations to understand miRNA-mRNA gene regulatory networks in zebrafish which will have implications in understanding the function of human homologs.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping