|
| Status |
Public on Oct 01, 2009 |
| Title |
High throughput sequencing of mutants in the WAGO pathway |
| Organism |
Caenorhabditis elegans |
| Experiment type |
Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing
Other
|
| Summary |
Diverse naturally-occurring small RNA species interact with Argonaute proteins to mediate sequence-specific regulation in animals. In addition to micro-RNAs (miRNAs), which collectively regulate thousands of target mRNAs, other endogenous small RNA species include the Piwi-associated piRNAs that are important for fertility and a less well-characterized class of small RNAs often referred to simply as endo-siRNAs. Here we have utilized deep-sequencing technology and C. elegans genetics to explore the biogenesis and function of endo-siRNAs. We describe conditional alleles of the dicer-related helicase, drh-3, that implicate DRH-3 in both the response to foreign dsRNA as well as the RNA-dependent RNA Polymerase (RdRP)-dependent biogenesis of a diverse class of endogenous small RNAs, termed 22G-RNAs. We show that 22G-RNAs are abundantly expressed in the germline and maternally inherited and are the products of at least two distinct 22G-RNA systems. One system is dependent on worm-specific AGOs, including WAGO-1, which localizes to germline nuage-related structures termed P-granules. The WAGO 22G-RNA system silences transposons, pseudogenes and cryptic loci as well as a number of genes. Finally, we demonstrate that components of the nonsense-mediated decay pathway function in at least one of the multiple, distinct WAGO surveillance pathways. These findings broaden our understanding of the biogenesis and diversity of 22G-RNA species and suggest potential novel regulatory functions for these small RNAs.
|
| |
|
| Overall design |
18 samples examined. Small RNA libraries generated from: C. elegans animals with mutations in the WAGO pathway and a WAGO-1 immunopercipitate.
|
| |
|
| Contributor(s) |
Gu W, Mello CC |
| Citation(s) |
19800275, 29456136 |
| Submission date |
Sep 22, 2009 |
| Last update date |
Jul 26, 2019 |
| Contact name |
Craig Mello |
| Organization name |
University of Massachusetts Medical School
|
| Department |
Program in Molecular Medicine
|
| Lab |
Craig Mello
|
| Street address |
368 Plantatoin Street, Suite AS5-2047
|
| City |
Worcester |
| State/province |
MA |
| ZIP/Postal code |
01605 |
| Country |
USA |
| |
|
| Platforms (1) |
| GPL9269 |
Illumina Genome Analyzer II (Caenorhabditis elegans) |
|
| Samples (18)
|
|
| This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries: |
|
| Relations |
| SRA |
SRP001449 |
| BioProject |
PRJNA123493 |
Less...
More...