TE-TSS:人类和小鼠可转移元素 (TE) 衍生的转录起点 (TSS) 的综合数据资源
Xiaobing Gu1, Mingdong Wang1, Xiao-Ou Zhang1
1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Clinical and Translational Research Center of Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, Frontier Science Center for Stem Cell Research, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Nucleic acids research
|November 13, 2023
概括
可转移元素 (TE) 作为促进体,产生调节基因表达的转录起始位 (TSSs). 新的TE-TSS数据库对人类和小鼠中的这些TE衍生TSS进行了目录,帮助研究它们的基因组作用.
科学领域:
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
背景情况:
- 可转移元素 (TE) 是重要的基因组组件,可以作为调节元素发挥作用.
- 来自TE的转录起点 (TSSs) 是由表观遗传控制的,并在癌症和胚胎发生等过程中影响基因表达.
- 对 TE 衍生的 TSS 缺乏集中数据,阻碍了研究.
研究的目的:
- 建立TE-TSS,一个针对人类和小鼠TE衍生的TSS的综合数据库.
- 为探索 TE-derived TSS 在各种生物样本和物种中的使用提供一个全面的资源.
- 促进对技术实验的监管作用和进化意义的研究.
主要方法:
- 从人类和小鼠样本中编制了2681个RNA测序数据集.
- 鉴定了5768种人类和2797种小鼠TE衍生的TSS.
- 在实验中验证了显著比例的TE衍生TSS.
- 在15种哺乳动物物种中比较TE衍生的TSS区域.
主要成果:
- 现在可以使用TE-TSS数据库 (http://xozhanglab.com/TETSS).
- 确定了成千上万的人类和小鼠TE衍生的TSS,实验验证率很高.
- TE-TSS允许探索TSS的使用,揭示组织特异性表达和调节元素.
- 跨物种比较为TE衍生TSS提供了进化见解.
结论:
- TE-TSS为研究由TEs塑造的转录学景观提供了宝贵的资源.
- 该数据库有助于理解TE在各种生物过程和疾病中的参与.
- 有助于进一步研究TE衍生调节元件的功能和进化作用.
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