PUBLICATION

Characterization of lncRNAs involved in cold acclimation of zebrafish ZF4 cells

Authors
Jiang, P., Hou, Y., Fu, W., Tao, X., Luo, J., Lu, H., Xu, Y., Han, B., Zhang, J.
ID
ZDB-PUB-180418-8
Date
2018
Source
PLoS One   13: e0195468 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Keywords
none
Datasets
GEO:GSE107369
MeSH Terms
  • Acclimatization/genetics*
  • Animals
  • Cold Temperature*
  • Fibroblasts/metabolism*
  • Gene Expression Profiling*
  • RNA, Long Noncoding/genetics*
  • Zebrafish/embryology*
  • Zebrafish/genetics
  • Zebrafish/physiology*
PubMed
29634734 Full text @ PLoS One
Abstract
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are increasingly regarded as a key role in regulating diverse biological processes in various tissues and species. Although the cold responsive lncRNAs have been reported in plants, no data is available on screening and functional prediction of lncRNAs in cold acclimation in fish so far. Here we compared the expression profile of lncRNAs in cold acclimated zebrafish embryonic fibroblast cells (ZF4) cultured at 18°C for 30 days with that of cells cultured at 28°C as control by high-throughput sequencing. Totally 8,363 novel lncRNAs were identified. Including known and novel lncRNAs, there are 347 lncRNAs up-regulated and 342 lncRNAs down-regulated in cold acclimated cells. Among the differentially expressed lncRNAs, 74 and 61 were detected only in control cells or cold-acclimated cells, respectively. The Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analyses of adjacent genes to the differentially expressed lncRNAs showed that the enriched genes are involved in electron transport, cell adhesion, oxidation-reduction process, and so on. We also predicted the target genes of the differentially expressed lncRNAs by looking for interactions between lncRNAs and mRNAs, and constructed an interaction network. In summary, our genome-wide systematic identification and functional prediction of cold responsive lncRNAs in zebrafish cells suggests a crucial role of lincRNAs in cold acclimation in fish.
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping