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Kuo WT, Su MW, Lee YL, Chen CH, Wu CW, Fang WL, Huang KH, Lin WC. Bioinformatic Interrogation of 5p-arm and 3p-arm Specific miRNA Expression Using TCGA Datasets. J Clin Med 2015; 4:1798-814. [PMID: 26389959 PMCID: PMC4600160 DOI: 10.3390/jcm4091798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Revised: 08/25/2015] [Accepted: 09/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in cellular functions and developmental processes. They are also implicated in oncogenesis mechanisms and could serve as potential cancer biomarkers. Using high-throughput miRNA sequencing information, expression of both the 5p-arm and 3p-arm mature miRNAs were demonstrated and generated from the single miRNA hairpin precursor. However, current miRNA annotations lack comprehensive 5p-arm/3p-arm feature annotations. Among known human mature miRNAs, only half of them are annotated with arm features. This generated ambiguous results in many miRNA-Sequencing (miRNA-Seq) studies. In this report, we have interrogated the TCGA (the Cancer Genome Atlas) miRNA expression datasets with an improved, fully annotated human 5p-arm and 3p-arm miRNA reference list. By utilizing this comprehensive miRNA arm-feature annotations, enhanced determinations and clear annotations were achieved for the miRNA isoforms (isomiRs) recognized from the sequencing reads. In the gastric cancer (STAD) dataset, as an example, 32 5p-arm/3p-arm OPEN ACCESS J. Clin. Med. 2015, 4 1799 specific miRNAs were found to be down-regulated and 24 5p-arm/3p-arm specific miRNAs were found to be up-regulated. We have further extended miRNA biomarker discoveries to additional TCGA miRNA-Seq datasets and provided extensive expression information on 5p-arm/3p-arm miRNAs across multiple cancer types. Our results identified several miRNAs that could be potential common biomarkers for human cancers.
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Affiliation(s)
- Wei-Ting Kuo
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.
- Institute of Biotechnology in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.
- Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.
- Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 100, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.
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- Department of Surgery, Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112,Taiwan.
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- Department of Surgery, Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112,Taiwan.
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- Department of Surgery, Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112,Taiwan.
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.
- Institute of Biotechnology in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan.
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Kuo WT, Ho MR, Wu CW, Fang WL, Huang KH, Lin WC. Interrogation of microRNAs involved in gastric cancer using 5p-arm and 3p-arm annotated microRNAs. Anticancer Res 2015; 35:1345-1352. [PMID: 25750284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
MicroRNAs are derived from endogenous stem-loop precursors, and play important roles in various biological processes. From next-generation sequencing data, it is suggested that both the 5p-arm and 3p-arm of mature miRNAs could be generated from a single miRNA hairpin precursor; however, the current miRNA databases fail to provide comprehensive arm annotation features, which could result in ambiguous and incomplete analyses. In the present report, we have annotated over 99.7% of miRNAs with the correct 5p-arm and 3p-arm features. The length distribution of all annotated miRNAs is around 22 nucleotides; however, the 5p-arm miRNAs seem to be longer than those of the 3p-arm, which is evident in the 23-nucleotide group. Our study effort generates comprehensive miRNA arm-feature annotation which can be utilized for better interrogation of miRNAs. In further analysis of human gastric cancer tissues, we identified 38 down-regulated miRNAs and 22 up-regulated arm-specific miRNAs using this new comprehensives miRNA list.
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Affiliation(s)
- Wei-Ting Kuo
- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Institute of Biotechnology in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Surgery, Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Surgery, Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Department of Surgery, Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Institute of Biotechnology in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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