Genome‐Wide Identification of MicroRNAs Responsive to High Temperature in Rice (Oryza sativa) by High‐Throughput Deep Sequencing

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known to play important roles in plant growth and stress response. Heat stress is a severe abiotic stresses by adversely affecting plant growth and yield. To identify heat‐responsive miRNAs at the genome‐wide level in rice (Oryza sativa), we constructed two small RNA libraries from young panicles treated or not with heat conditions. Ion torrent sequencing of the two libraries identified 294 known miRNAs and 539 novel miRNAs. Differential expression analysis showed that 26 miRNAs were downregulated and 21 miRNAs were upregulated in response to heat stress. Among them, five heat‐responsive miRNAs, including miR162b, miR529a‐p5, PC‐5P‐62245‐9, miR171b and miR169n, were validated by quantitative real‐time polymerase chain reaction. A total of 44 target genes of the differentially expressed miRNAs were predicted. These target genes are most significantly overrepresented in the cell growth process. The results demonstrated that rice miRNAs play critical roles in the heat stress response. This study opens up a new avenue for understanding the regulatory mechanisms of miRNAs involvement in the heat stress response in rice.     

Analysis on Target Genes with Mutation in microRNA of Blue-shelled Chicken and White Leghorn

The study was conducted to explore the potential different characters between Blue-shelled chicken and White leghorn.Global genome microRNA was combined the identified microRNA with complementary lab-predicted microRNA.Then the two breed chicken's SNP data got by GGRS were mapped to the microRNA and focused on SNP that deliberately located in mature-microRNA.Bioinformatics method was adopted for target prediction on microRNA which had SNPs.By further gene enrichment analysis,the study found these genes enriched in 22 GO terms,10 KEGG pathways,and 3 IPA important networks.And they enriched in traits which associated with growth,such as mTOR signaling pathways,Wnt signaling pathways,growth hormone receptor networks and insulin-like growth factor Ⅰ receptor networks.And they also enriched in some laying traits,such as oocyte meiotic signaling pathways and progesterone mature oocytes signaling pathways.The methods and the results might provide references for further studies.     

Evolution Analysis About Soybean MIR166 Family

MicroRNA(miRNA) is a class of important regulating non-coding small molecular RNA. The gma-MIR166 gene family consists of 21 members and their expression patterns diversify widely. It is important to analyze the evolution of gma-MIR166 gene family in order to understand the evolutionary mechanisms of miRNAs in soybean. In this study, we implemented soybean wide genome block analysis, the molecular phylogeny of gma-MIR166 and block analysis of gma-MIR166 family. The results showed that both chromosome big segmental duplications and tandem duplications were main reasons contributed to the expanding of gmaMIR166 gene family. These findings suggested that gma-MIR166 gene family might originate from one or two ancient miRNA genes. The results of research provided a support for evolutionary study of miRNAs in soybean and related species in Fabaceae.     

lncRNA作为竞争性内源分子的作用机制及研究进展

竞争性内源RNA （competing endogenous RNA,ceRNA）假说提出具有相同短序列非编码微小（microRNA,miRNA）应答元件（microRNA response element,MRE）的转录物通过竞争的方式结合miRNA,从而影响转录物的表达水平。ceRNA假说颠覆了miRNA与靶基因单向调控的传统观念,在RNA调控网络中具有重要的生物学意义。在众多转录物中,长链非编码RNA （long non-coding RNA,lncRNA）是一类序列长度超过200个核苷酸的非编码RNA,对lncRNA的研究涉及到遗传、分子生物、基因调控、疾病（癌症、神经系统疾病等）等领域。miRNA与lncRNA形成了一个相互作用的调控网络,lncRNA可作为ceRNA抑制miRNA的功能,从而影响后续基因的表达。近年来,随着生物信息学技术的发展,科研人员发现ceRNA作用机制不仅涉及到人类癌症疾病,而且在各种复杂动物的肌细胞分化、脂肪细胞分化和颗粒细胞凋亡等生物过程中也发挥重要的调控作用。作者追溯了ceRNA调控机制,分析了ceRNA网络调控的影响因素,综述了ceRNA在不同动物中调控miRNA的研究进展,为进一步研究lncRNA与miRNA的调控网络提供参考,为畜牧业发展及复杂动物疾病治疗提供新的思路。     

家兔中microRNA的研究进展

microRNA(miRNA)是一类内源性非编码单链RNA分子,通过与靶基因mRNA配对以指导其功能表达,在动物中扮演着重要的基因调节作用。研究表明,miRNA广泛参与调节动物的生长发育、生殖调控、新陈代谢和疾病发生等生命过程。本文综述了miRNA在家兔中的研究,例如促进肌肉细胞增殖分化、调节脂肪代谢和影响疾病发生等,探讨miRNA在家兔中的研究现状和发展方向,旨在为家兔遗传育种与繁殖提供理论依据。     

鱼类microRNA研究进展

microRNA是一种大小为18~25个核苷酸的非编码RNA,调控靶基因的转录后表达,广泛参与多种生理过程。本研究简要综述了microRNA生物学特性、转录后调控机制,详细讨论了第二代测序技术的相关应用、microRNA在鱼类中的表达模式、功能研究,包括渗透压调节、生殖、发育、生长、免疫、代谢等。现有的研究表明,miR-200和miR-30具有调控血浆离子浓度和渗透压平衡的功能;Dicer1是胚胎发育所必需的,在原肠胚时期,miR-20a调节头、眼、脊柱、体节的形态发生,miR-92调控内胚层的形成,miR-10影响体轴形成,miR-219影响头部和尾部细胞的凋亡;miR-122、miR-30、miR-145分别影响肝细胞成熟、肝胆管和肠道发育,miR-138和miR-143调控心脏发育,miR-126、miR-150、miR-451调控血小板、血细胞的发育和成熟,miR-10和miR-126影响血管生成,miR-200、miR-183分别影响嗅觉、听觉系统的发育,多个microRNA参与视网膜、肌肉、鱼鳍、肝脏等器官的再生;miR-133a/b、miR-206抑制肌肉细胞分裂,miR-214、miR-499、miR-199、miR-3906调控快肌纤维和慢肌纤维的生成;miR-430促进原始生殖细胞的生成;多个microRNA参与到禁食和再投喂调控的分解代谢和合成代谢平衡;此外,microRNA通过对免疫因子的调控参与到先天免疫、低氧适应、体色调控、应激反应、肌间刺形成等生理过程中。本研究通过对这些结果进行总结和讨论分析,将有助于对鱼类microRNA研究领域现状的了解和把握,促进鱼类非编码RNA研究的深入。     

刺参响应灿烂弧菌侵染差异microRNAs鉴定及靶基因分析

microRNA参与基因的转录后调控,在真核生物的生长发育、细胞分化和免疫防御等过程中发挥重要作用。刺参(Apostichopus japonicus)病害问题已成为产业发展的主要限制因素之一,而其病害发生的分子机制尚待进一步完善。本研究以刺参重大疾病“腐皮综合征”的重要致病原灿烂弧菌(Vibrios splendidus)为侵染菌株,通过人工侵染实验制备患病刺参样本,采用miRNA-seq技术对侵染组(PT16S)和对照组(PT10H)各3头刺参的体壁组织进行miRNA测序,通过相关生物信息学软件对miRNAs进行鉴定和分析,筛选差异表达miRNAs (DEmiRNAs)并预测其靶基因,构建关键调控途径的miRNA-mRNA调控网络。结果显示,PT10H组平均得到5 902 588条有效序列,194个已知miRNA和19个新的miRNA;PT16S组平均得到5 053 529条有效序列,182个已知miRNA和42个新的miRNA。对2组鉴定到的miRNA进行差异表达分析,共筛选到2个上调和11个下调的具有显著差异的DEmiRNAs (P≤0.05),上调的DEmiRNAs靶基因预测结合到3010个靶基因,注释到585个GO terms及24条信号通路(P≤0.05),下调的DEmiRNAs靶基因预测到19 072个靶基因,注释到514个GO terms以及22条信号通路(P≤0.05)。对筛选到的DEmiRNAs进行实时荧光定量PCR (qRT-PCR)验证,显示miRNA-seq与qRT-PCR的一致率达到70%。根据KEGG分析结果构建泛素介导的蛋白水解途径和Notch信号通路的miRNA-mRNA调控网络,结果显示,13个DEmiRNAs分别靶向结合134个与泛素介导的蛋白水解相关的mRNAs和109个与Notch信号通路相关的mRNAs,Aja-miR-184、Aja-miR-2478和Aja-miR-9277p等DEmiRNAs可能参与对Notch信号通路和对泛素介导的蛋白水解的调控。相关研究结果将为刺参疾病发生调控网络建立和机制解析提供依据。     

The transition time from the juvenile phase to the adult phase differs in soybean cultivars ‘Enrei’ and ‘Peking’

Plants develop juvenile phase to adult phase in vegetative stage. Although soybean is a very important crop worldwide, there has been only one study of the juvenile–adult phase change. In this study, we determined that the juvenile–adult phase change occurred at different stages in two soybean cultivars that differ in their photosensitivity. Cultivar ‘Enrei’ (E1e2e3E4) is weakly photosensitive and cultivar ‘Peking’ (E1E2E3E4) is strongly photosensitive. In ‘Enrei’, the leaf size gradually increased at a constant leaf position regardless of the difference in day length. In ‘Peking’ plants transferred to short‐day conditions at several leaf development stages, leaf size gradually increased at different leaf positions. Expression of miR156 by ‘Enrei’ transferred to short‐day conditions had nearly the same pattern as that of ‘Enrei’ grown under long‐day conditions. In ‘Peking’, the expression of miR156 had different patterns in younger leaves of plants subjected to either a short‐day treatment or long‐day conditions. These results indicate that the E2 and E3 loci that regulate photosensitivity also regulate the expression of miR156 and the juvenile–adult phase change in soybean.