Dynamic alternative polyadenylation during iPSC differentiation into cardiomyocytes.

ABSTRACT: Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is an important post-transcription regulatory mechanism widely occurring in eukaryotes and has been associated with special traits/diseases by several studies. However, the dynamic roles and patterns of APA in cell differentiation remain largely unknown. Here, we systematically characterized the APA profiles during the differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to cardiomyocytes by the previously published RNA-seq data across 16 time points. We identified 950 differential APA events and found five dynamic APA patterns with fuzzy c-means clustering analysis. Among them, 3'UTR progressive lengthening is the main APA pattern over time, the genes of which are enriched in cell cycle and mRNA metabolic process pathways. By constructing the linear

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9636549 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature