Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE23968: Large intergenic non-coding RNAs as novel modulators of reprogramming: ESCs, fibroblast, and fibroblast-derived iPSC (gene expression) GSE23970: Large intergenic non-coding RNAs as novel modulators of reprogramming: human embryonic stem cells, CD34+ cells, and CD34+ derived induced pluripotent stem cells (LincRNA expression) GSE23973: Large intergenic non-coding RNAs as novel modulators of reprogramming: siRNA (gene expression) GSE24181: Large intergenic non-coding RNAs as novel modulators of reprogramming: human embryonic stem cells, fibroblasts, and fibroblast-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (LincRNA expression) Refer to individual Series
Project description:Our study is focused on the characterization of the Arabidopsis flower peptidome, using the floral homeotic mutants apetala1, apetala2, apetala3, pistillata, and agamous in comparison to the wild type. For peptide identification by LC-MS/MS, an extensive database of hypothetical novel Arabidopsis peptides was created. It comprised putative sORF-encoded peptides (SEPs) from intergenic regions, UTRs, ‘non-coding’ RNAs and other transcripts.
Project description:Recent advances in genome-wide techniques allowed the identification of thousands of non-coding RNAs with various sizes in eukaryotes, some of which have further been shown to serve important functions in many biological processes. However, in model plant Arabidopsis, novel intermediate-sized ncRNAs (im-ncRNAs) (50~300nt) have very limited information. By using a modified isolation strategy combined with deep-sequencing technology, we identified 838 im-ncRNAs in Arabidopsis globally. More than half (58%) are new ncRNA species, mostly evolutionary divergent. Interestingly, annotated protein-coding genes with 5’-UTR derived novel im-ncRNAs tend to be highly expressed. For intergenic im-ncRNAs, their average abundances were comparable to mRNAs in seedlings, but subsets exhibited significantly lower expression in senescing leaves. Further, intergenic im-ncRNAs were regulated by similar genetic and epigenetic mechanisms as those of protein-coding genes, and some showed developmentally-regulated expression patterns. Large-scale reverse genetic screening showed that the down-regulation of a number of im-ncRNAs resulted in either obvious molecular changes or abnormal developmental phenotypes in vivo, indicating the functional importance of im-ncRNAs in plant growth and development. Together, our results demonstrate that novel Arabidopsis im-ncRNAs are developmentally-regulated and functional components discovered in the transcriptome. Genome-wide maps of Intermediate-size Non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis