Identification and characterization of new plant microRNAs using EST analysis

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    摘要 Seventy-fivepreviouslyknownplantmicroRNAs(miRNAs)wereclassifiedinto14familiesaccordingtotheirgenesequenceidentity.Atotalof18,694plantexpressedsequencetags(EST)werefoundintheGenBankESTdatabasesbycomparingallpreviouslyknownArabidopsismiRNAstoGenBank'splantESTdatabaseswithBLASTalgorithms.AfterremovingtheESTsequenceswithhighnumbers(morethan2)ofmismatchednucleotides,atotalof812ESTcontigswereidentified.AfterpredictingandscoringtheRNAsecondarystructureofthe812ESTsequencesusingmFoldsoftware,338newpotentialmiRNAswereidentifiedin60plantspecies,miRNAsarewidespread.SomemicroRNAsmayhighlyconserveintheplantkingdom,andtheymayhavethesameancestorinveryearlyevolution.ThereisnonucleotidesubstitutioninmostmiRNAsamongmanyplantspecies.SomeofthenewidentifiedpotentialmiRNAsmaybeinducedandregulatedbyenvironmentalbioticandabioticstresses.Somemaybepreferentiallyexpressedinspecifictissues,andareregulatedbydevelopmentalswitching.ThesefindingssuggestthatESTanalysisisagoodalternativestrategyforidentifyingnewmiRNAcandidates,theirtargets,andothergenes.AlargenumberofmiRNAsexistindifferentplantspeciesandplayimportantrolesinplantdevelopmentalswitchingandplantresponsestoenvironmentalabioticandbioticstressesaswellassignaltransduction.EnvironmentalstressesanddevelopmentalswitchingmaybethesignalsforsynthesisandregulationofmiRNAsinplants.AmodelformiRNAinductionandexpression,andgeneregulationbymiRNAishypothesized.
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    出处 《细胞研究:英文版》 2005年5期
    出版日期 2005年05月15日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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