Project description:To identity the targets of miRNAs, we bundled 12 samples from different developing satages into four mixture samples. These samples were used to cosntruct degradome libraries and preform degradome sequencing on Illumina Hi-seq 2000 analyzer. More than 44.98 millions clean reads were obtained and 33.52 million reads were mapped to the soybean cDNA. The mapped reads were used to identity miRNA targets by CleaveLand4 pipeline. 4 degradome mixed samples, no replicates, but every degradome data consists of two parts data. Please note that every degradome sample has two processed and two raw data files. To have enough data, additional sequencing was performed from each sample library. And each sample raw data was processed separately (tissue_name*degradome.txt) and also combined (all_degradome*.txt).
Project description:The hydrolytic deamination of cytosine and 5-methylcytosine drives many of the transition mutations observed in human cancer. The deamination-induced mutagenic intermediates are either uracil or thymine adducts mispaired with guanine. While a substantial array of methods exists to measure other types of DNA adducts, the cytosine deamination adducts pose unusual analytical problems and adequate methods to measure them have not yet been developed. We describe here a novel hybrid thymine DNA glycosylase, hyTDG, which is comprised of a 29-amino acid sequence from human thymine DNA glycosylase linked to a thymine glycosylase found in an archaeal thermophilic bacterium. Using defined-sequence oligonucleotides, we show that hyTDG has robust mispair-selective activity against deaminated U:G and T:G mispairs. We have further developed a method for separating glycosylase-released free bases from oligonucleotides and DNA followed by GC-MS/MS identification and quantification. Using this approach, we have measured for the first time the levels of total Uracil (U), U:G and T:G in calf thymus DNA. The method presented here will allow the measurement of the formation, persistence, and repair of a biologically important class of deaminated cytosine adducts.