Project description:Extracellular RNAs (exRNAs) in blood and other biofluids have attracted great interest as potential biomarkers in liquid biopsy applications, as well as for their potential biological functions. Whereas it is well-established that extracellular microRNAs are present in human blood circulation, the degree to which messenger RNAs (mRNA) and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNA) are represented in plasma is less clear. Here we report that mRNA and lncRNA species are present as small fragments in plasma that are not detected by standard small RNA-seq methods, because they lack 5’-phosphorylation or carry 3’-phosphorylation. We developed a modified sequencing protocol (termed “phospho-sRNA-seq”) that incorporates upfront RNA treatment with T4 polynucleotide kinase (which also has 3’ phosphatase activity) and compared it to a standard small RNA-seq protocol, using as input both a pool of synthetic RNAs with diverse 5’ and 3’ end chemistries, as well exRNA isolated from human blood plasma. Using a custom, high-stringency pipeline for data analysis we identified mRNA and lncRNA transcriptome fingerprints in plasma, including multiple tissue-specific gene sets. In this cohort of healthy individuals, we demonstrate the improved capture of mRNA and lncRNA fragments using the phospho-sRNA-seq protocol. We find they primarily arise from mRNA exons, and that abundant fragments are consistently detected in multiple individuals.
Project description:The project aimed at investigating the impact of chronic low grade inflammation on plasma functions and plasma proteomes in healthy individuals.
Project description:Blood was collected from healthy individuals in the morning, afternoon and evening, and plasma analyzed by RNA-seq. Plasma from two donors were not included due to excessive hemolysis in samples from two data points. One datapoint -afternoon- from donor 3 was also not included due to excessive hemolysis.
Project description:Small RNA-Seq analysis of circulating small RNAs performed on plasma samples from an Italian cohort of 120 healthy individuals with three dietary habits. The cohort includes 72 women and 48 men included an equal proportion of vegetarians, vegans and omnivores.
Project description:RNA-Seq of polyA mRNA from rare types of cultured or uncultured primary cells of different haemopoetic lineages from healthy individuals in the BLUEPRINT epigenome project (Expression Atlas tissue view)
Project description:We sequenced 8 colorectal cancer patients' PBMC samples, and 6 healthy donors' PBMC samples. These individuals' plasma RNA have been profiled.
Project description:Plasma contains several bioactive molecules (RNA, DNA, proteins, lipids, and metabolites), which are well preserved in extracellular vesicles, that are involved in many types of cell-to-cell interactions, and are capable of modifying biological processes in recipient cells. To obtain information about the source of mRNA molecules present in the plasma, we analyzed the plasma extracellular RNA (exRNA) of healthy individuals using RNA-sequencing and compared it to that of the peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMCs) of the same individual. The resultant data indicates that large proportion of the transcripts in plasma are derived from cell types other than PBMCs. To assess aging-associated changes in the plasma exRNA composition, gene ontology enrichment analysis was performed, revealing a functional decline in biological processes as a result of aging. Additionally, plasma RNA levels were analyzed with differential expression analysis, revealing 10 transcripts with significant aging-associated changes. Thus, it seems that the plasma exRNA is not fully derived from the PBMCs. Instead, other cell types supply RNAs to constitute the plasma exRNA compartment. This was true in both the young and elderly individuals that were tested. Furthermore, the RNA content of the plasma showed significant changes due to aging, affecting important biological processes.
Project description:Background: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are increasingly implicated as gene regulators and may ultimately be more numerous than protein-coding genes in the human genome. Despite large numbers of reported lncRNAs, reference annotations are likely incomplete due to their lower and tighter tissue-specific expression compared to mRNAs. An unexplored factor potentially confounding lncRNA identification is inter-individual expression variability. Here, we characterize lncRNA natural expression variability in human primary granulocytes. Results: We annotate granulocyte lncRNAs and mRNAs in RNA-seq data from ten healthy individuals, identifying multiple lncRNAs absent from reference annotations, and use this to investigate three known features (higher tissue-specificity, lower expression, and reduced splicing efficiency) of lncRNAs relative to mRNAs. Expression variability was examined in seven individuals sampled three times at one or more than one month intervals. We show that lncRNAs display significantly more inter-individual expression variability compared to mRNAs. We confirm this finding in 2 independent human datasets by analyzing multiple tissues from the GTEx project and lymphoblastoid cell lines from the GEUVADIS project. Using the latter dataset we also show that including more human donors into the transcriptome annotation pipeline allows identification of an increasing number of lncRNAs, but minimally affects mRNA gene number. Conclusions: A comprehensive annotation of lncRNAs is known to require an approach that is sensitive to low and tight tissue-specific expression. Here we show that increased inter-individual expression variability is an additional general lncRNA feature to consider when creating a comprehensive annotation of human lncRNAs or proposing their use as prognostic or disease markers. We used PolyA+ RNA-seq data from human primary granulocytes of 10 healthy individuals to de novo annotate lncRNAs and mRNAs in this cell type and ribosomal depleted (total) RNA-seq data from seven of these individuals sampled three times to analyze lncRNA amd mRNA expression variability
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Project description:Plasma derived microbiome of melanoma patients and healthy individuals
Project description:Proteomic profiling of plasma and serum extracellular vesicles reveals the presence of tissue-specific proteins in healthy individuals