Identification of aberrant tRNA-halves expression patterns in clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

ABSTRACT: Small non-coding RNAs (sncRNA; <200 nt) regulate various cellular processes and modify gene expression. Under nutritional, biological or physiochemical stress some mature sncRNAs (e.g. tRNAs) are cleaved into halves (30-50 nt) and smaller fragments (18-22 nt); the significance and functional role of these tRNA fragments is unknown, but their existence has been linked to carcinogenesis. We used small RNA sequencing to determine the expression of sncRNAs. Subsequently the findings were validated for miR-122-5p, miR-142-3p and 5'tRNA4-Val-AAC using qPCR. We identified differential expression of 132 miRNAs (upregulated: 61, downregulated: 71) and 32 tRNAs (upregulated: 13, downregulated: 19). Read length analysis showed that miRNAs mapped in the 20-24 nt fraction, whereas tRNA reads mapped in

SUBMITTER: Nientiedt M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5121638 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature