Metabolomics,Unknown,Transcriptomics,Genomics,Proteomics

Dataset Information

Identification of Interferon Regulated Genes (IRGs) in the chicken lung and spleen

ABSTRACT: 8 weeks old Chickens (White leghorn (LSL), 4 per group), were i.v. injected every three hours with 1x10^7 Units recombinant chicken interferon alpha to obtain a plasma concentration similar to the amount of type I IFN produced during natural infection. Three (1 IFN injection), six (2 injections) and nine (three injections) hours after the first injection spleen and lung of the birds were sampled and subjected to microarray analysis using Agilent 4x44k chicken arrays customized with a multitude of immune genes (e.g. chemokines and chemokine receptors, cytokines and cytokine receptors). Birds receiving buffer only served as control.

ORGANISM(S): Gallus gallus

SUBMITTER: Sonja HÃ¤rtle

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-5567 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

ACCESS DATA

Similar Datasets

Project description:Background: Adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs) bind to double-stranded and structured RNAs and deaminate adenosines to inosines. This A to I editing is widespread and required for normal life and development. Besides mRNAs and repetitive elements, ADARs can target miRNA precursors. Editing of miRNA precursors can affect processing efficiency and alter target specificity. Interestingly, ADARs can also influence miRNA abundance independent of RNA-editing. In mouse embryos where editing levels are low, ADAR2 was found to be the major ADAR protein that affects miRNA abundance. Here we extend our analysis to adult mouse brains where high editing levels are observed. Results: Using Illumina deep sequencing we compare the abundances of mature miRNAs and editing events within them, between wild-type and ADAR2 knockout mice in the adult mouse brain. Reproducible changes in abundance of specific miRNAs are observed in ADAR2 deficient mice. Most of these quantitative changes seem unrelated to A to I editing events. However, many A to G transitions in cDNAs prepared from mature miRNA sequences, reflecting A to I editing events in the RNA, are observed with frequencies reaching up to 80%. About half of these editing events are primarily caused by ADAR2 while a few miRNAs show increased editing in the absence of ADAR2, suggesting preferential editing by ADAR1. Moreover, novel, previously unknown editing events were identified in several miRNAs. In general 64% of all editing events are located within the seed region of mature miRNAs. In one of these cases retargeting of the edited miRNA could be verified in reporter assays. Also, altered processing efficiency upon editing near a processing site could be experimentally verified. Conclusions: ADAR2 can significantly influence the abundance of certain miRNAs in the brain. Only in a few cases changes in miRNA abundance can be explained by miRNA editing. Thus, ADAR2 binding to miRNA precursors, without editing them, may influence their processing and thereby abundance. ADAR1 and ADAR2 have both overlapping and distinct specificities for editing of miRNA editing sites. Over 60% of editing occurs in the seed region possibly changing target specificities for many edited miRNAs. Examination of the effect of ADAR2 on gene expression in mature mouse wildtype and ADAR2 knockout brain using AffymetrixM-BM-. GeneChipM-BM-. Whole Transcript (WT) Expression Arrays (Analysis by KFB Regensburg, Germany)

Dataset Information

Identification of Interferon Regulated Genes (IRGs) in the chicken lung and spleen

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure