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Widespread formation of double-stranded RNAs in testis

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GENOME RESEARCH
卷 31, 期 7, 页码 1174-+

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COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gr.265603.120

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  1. Northern Counties Kidney Research Fund [18.011]
  2. Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education
  3. Higher Committee for Education Development in Iraq
  4. University of Baghdad

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The transcriptome of testis is highly complex, with distinct patterns of dsRNA formation compared to liver, and is significantly less complex in juvenile mice. Genes generating dsRNA are significantly expressed in male germ cells and show enrichment in pachytene spermatocytes, with a lower formation rate on sex chromosomes. Testis dsRNAs are associated with natural antisense genes, contributing to a testis-specific mechanism involving the RNA interference pathway.
The testis transcriptome is highly complex and includes RNAs that potentially hybridize to form double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). We isolated dsRNA using the monoclonal J2 antibody and deep-sequenced the enriched samples from testes of juvenile Dicer1 knockout mice, age-matched controls, and adult animals. Comparison of our data set with recently published data from mouse liver revealed that the dsRNA transcriptome in testis is markedly different from liver: In testis, dsRNA-forming transcripts derive from mRNAs including promoters and immediate downstream regions, whereas in somatic cells they originate more often from introns and intergenic transcription. The genes that generate dsRNA are significantly expressed in isolated male germ cells with particular enrichment in pachytene spermatocytes. dsRNA formation is lower on the sex (X and Y) chromosomes. The dsRNA transcriptome is significantly less complex in juvenile mice as compared to adult controls and, possibly as a consequence, the knockout of Dicer1 has only a minor effect on the total number of transcript peaks associated with dsRNA. The comparison between dsRNA-associated genes in testis and liver with a reported set of genes that produce endogenous siRNAs reveals a significant overlap in testis but not in liver. Testis dsRNAs also significantly associate with natural antisense genes-again, this feature is not observed in liver. These findings point to a testis-specific mechanism involving natural antisense transcripts and the formation of dsRNAs that feed into the RNA interference pathway, possibly to mitigate the mutagenic impacts of recombination and transposon mobilization.

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