A novel class of small RNAs: tRNA-derived RNA fragments (tRFs)
Abstract
New types of small RNAs distinct from microRNAs (miRNAs) are progressively being discovered in various organisms. In order to discover such novel small RNAs, a library of 17- to 26-base-long RNAs was created from prostate cancer cell lines and sequenced by ultra-high-throughput sequencing. A significant number of the sequences are derived from precise processing at the 5′ or 3′ end of mature or precursor tRNAs to form three series of tRFs (tRNA-derived RNA fragments): the tRF-5, tRF-3, and tRF-1 series. These sequences constitute a class of short RNAs that are second most abundant to miRNAs. Northern hybridization, quantitative RT–PCR, and splinted ligation assays independently measured the levels of at least 17 tRFs. To demonstrate the biological importance of tRFs, we further investigated tRF-1001, derived from the 3′ end of a Ser-TGA tRNA precursor transcript that is not retained in the mature tRNA. tRF-1001 is expressed highly in a wide range of cancer cell lines but much less in tissues, and its expression in cell lines was tightly correlated with cell proliferation. siRNA-mediated knockdown of tRF-1001 impaired cell proliferation with the specific accumulation of cells in G2, phenotypes that were reversed specifically by cointroducing a synthetic 2′-O-methyl tRF-1001 oligoribonucleotide resistant to the siRNA. tRF-1001 is generated in the cytoplasm by tRNA 3′-endonuclease ELAC2, a prostate cancer susceptibility gene. Our data suggest that tRFs are not random by-products of tRNA degradation or biogenesis, but an abundant and novel class of short RNAs with precise sequence structure that have specific expression patterns and specific biological roles.
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tRNA fragments are not random by-products of tRNA degradation or biogenesis and have biological regulatory roles.
“These tRNA fragments are not random by-products of tRNA degradation or biogenesis and have biological regulatory roles [21].”
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tRFs are fragments of either mature or precursor tRNA molecules enzymatically cleaved by angiogenin, Dicer, RNaseZ, and RNaseP.
“fragments of either mature of precursor tRNA molecules enzymatically cleaved by angiogenin (Ang), Dicer, RNaseZ, and RNaseP (7, 53)”
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- Authors
- Lee, Y. S., Shibata, Y., Malhotra, A., & Dutta, A.
- Venue
- Genes & Development
- Publisher
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Published
- 2009-11-15
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 2639-2649
- ISSN
- 0890-9369
- 1549-5477
- Cited by
- 1,066
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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