Publikationsdatenbank

Discovery of the porcine intestinal miRNAome (2010)

Art

Poster

Autoren

Sharbati, S.

Friedländer, M.

Sharbati, J.

Hoeke, L.

Chen, W.

Keller, A.

Stähler, P. F.

Rajewsky, N.

Einspanier, R.

Forschungsprojekt

SFB 852-TP B04: Untersuchungen zum Einfluss von intestinalen Faktoren wie Zink oder Mikroorganismen auf regulierende mircoRNA und Charakterisierung d. nachgeschalteten Reaktionsmechanismen

Kongress

The Non Coding Genome

Heidelberg, 13. – 16.10.2010

Quelle

EMBO Symposium Booklet

Sprache

Englisch

Kontakt

Institut für Veterinär-Biochemie

Oertzenweg 19 b
14163 Berlin
+49 30 838 62225
biochemie@vetmed.fu-berlin.de

Abstract / Zusammenfassung

While more than 900 microRNAs (miRNAs) are known in human, a comparably low number has been identified in swine. Recent studies indicate that miRNAs are key regulators of intestinal development and their aberrant expression leads to intestinal malignancy. In this study, we present the identification of hundreds of apparently novel miRNAs in the porcine intestine. MiRNAs were first identified by means of deep sequencing followed by miRNA precursor prediction using the miRDeep algorithm as well as searching for conserved miRNAs. Second, the porcine miRNAome along the entire intestine (duodenum, proximal and distal jejunum, ileum, ascending and transverse colon) was unraveled using customized miRNA microarrays based on the identified sequences as well as known porcine and human ones. In total, the expression of 332 intestinal miRNAs was discovered, of which 201 represented assumed novel porcine miRNAs. The identified hairpin forming precursors were in part organized in genomic clusters, and most of the precursors were located on chromosomes 3 and 1, respectively. Hierarchical clustering of the expression data revealed subsets of miRNAs that are specific to distinct parts of the intestine pointing to their impact on cellular signaling networks. We have applied a straight forward approach to decipher the porcine intestinal miRNAome for the first time in mammals using a piglet model. The high number of identified novel miRNAs in the porcine intestine points out their crucial role in intestinal function as shown by pathway analysis. On the other hand, the reported miRNAs may share orthologs in other mammals such as human still to be discovered.