测序深度对RNA编辑识别算法的影响

RNA编辑是重要的转录后修饰过程,目前已有多种算法用于识别RNA编辑,本文主要研究小鼠中测序深度对RNA编辑识别算法的影响,从而为RNA编辑的研究给出建议的方法. 本文使用STAR比对软件将小鼠的RNA-seq数据进行序列比对,然后使用GATK识别SNV,并用Separate Method、GIREMI、RNAEditor 3种方法识别出RNA编辑位点. 最后对3种方法识别RNA编辑位点的共同部分、识别效率、识别稳定性、识别与测序深度的关系进行分析. 结果发现3种方法识别的编辑位点数目差异大,共有位点较少,随着测序深度的增加,识别的RNA编辑位点数也在增加. 结果表明RNA编辑识别算法在小鼠中的识别性能与测序深度呈正相关.     

Deep Sequencing of the Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi Transcriptome Reveals Flavonoid Biosynthetic Profiling and Organ-Specific Gene Expression

Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi has long been used in traditional medicine to treat various such widely varying diseases and has been listed in the Chinese Pharmacopeia, the Japanese Pharmacopeia, the Korean Pharmacopoeia and the European Pharmacopoeia. Flavonoids, especially wogonin, wogonoside, baicalin, and baicalein, are its main functional ingredients with various pharmacological activities. Although pharmaological studies for these flavonoid components have been well conducted, the molecular mechanism of their biosynthesis remains unclear in S. baicalensis. In this study, Illumina/Solexa deep sequencing generated more than 91 million paired-end reads and 49,507 unigenes from S. baicalensis roots, stems, leaves and flowers. More than 70% unigenes were annotated in at least one of the five public databases and 13,627 unigenes were assigned to 3,810 KEGG genes involved in 579 different pathways. 54 unigenes that encode 12 key enzymes involved in the pathway of flavonoid biosynthesis were discovered. One baicalinase and three baicalein 7-O-glucuronosyltransferases genes potentially involved in the transformation between baicalin/wogonoside and baicalein/wogonin were identified. Four candidate 6-hydroxylase genes for the formation of baicalin/baicalein and one candidate 8-O-methyltransferase gene for the biosynthesis of wogonoside/wogonin were also recognized. Our results further support the conclusion that, in S. baicalensis, 3,5,7-trihydroxyflavone was the precursor of the four above compounds. Then, the differential expression models and simple sequence repeats associated with these genes were carefully analyzed. All of these results not only enrich the gene resource but also benefit research into the molecular genetics and functional genomics in S. baicalensis.