Conserved and highly expressed tRNA derived fragments in zebrafish.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs) are a class of transcripts implicated in several eukaryotic regulatory mechanisms, namely gene silencing and chromatin regulation. Despite significant progress in their identification by next generation sequencing (NGS) we are still far from understanding their full diversity and functional repertoire.

Results

Here we report the identification of tRNA derived fragments (tRFs) by NGS of the sncRNA fraction of zebrafish. The tRFs identified are 18-30 nt long, are derived from specific 5' and 3' processing of mature tRNAs and are differentially expressed during development and in differentiated tissues, suggesting that they are likely produced by specific processing rather than random degradation of tRNAs. We further show that a highly

SUBMITTER: Soares AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4688932 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature