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PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR
卷 8, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/psb.23932
关键词
miRNA; computational prediction; wheat; target prediction; EST
资金
- Indian Council of Agricultural (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, New Delhi [DWR/RP/10-5.3]
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short endogenous non-coding small RNA molecules of about 18-22 nucleotides in length. Their main function is to downregulate gene expression in different manners like translational repression, mRNA cleavage and epigenetic modification. Computational predictions have raised the number of miRNAs in wheat significantly using an EST based approach. Hence, a combinatorial approach which is amalgamation of bioinformatics software and perl script was used to identify new miRNA to add to the growing database of wheat miRNA. Identification of miRNAs was initiated by mining the EST (Expressed Sequence Tags) database available at National Center for Biotechnology Information. In this investigation, 4677 mature microRNA sequences belonging to 50 miRNA families from different plant species were used to predict miRNA in wheat. A total of five new abiotic stress-responsive miRNAs were predicted and named Ta-miR5653, Ta-miR855, Ta-miR819k, Ta-miR3708 and Ta-miR5156. In addition, four previously identified miRNA i.e., Ta-miR1122, miR1117,Ta-miR1134 and Ta-miR1133 were predicted in newly identified EST sequence and 14 potential target genes were subsequently predicted, most of which seems to encode ubiquitin carrier protein, serine/threonine protein kinase, 40S ribosomal protein, F-box/kelch-repeat protein, BTB/POZ domain-containing protein, transcription factors which are involved in growth, development, metabolism and stress response. Our result has increased the number of miRNAs in wheat, which should be useful for further investigation into the biological functions and evolution of miRNAs in wheat and other plant species.
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