使用纳米孔离子电流信号和深度学习进行tRNA异解码器分析
Stuart Akeson1, Pooria Daneshvar Kakhaki2, Neda Ghohabi Esfahani1
1Department of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
|January 7, 2026
概括
我们开发了一种使用纳米孔测序和离子电流信号进行准确转移RNA (tRNA) 分析的深度学习方法. 这种方法改善了细菌和酵母中的异解码器识别和对齐,推动了生物发现.
科学领域:
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
背景情况:
- 转移RNA (tRNA) 在蛋白质合成和细胞调节中起着至关重要的作用.
- 精确分析tRNA序列及其修改对于理解生物过程至关重要.
- 目前用于tRNA分析的方法在分辨率和准确性方面存在局限性,特别是在异码编码器级别的区别方面.
研究的目的:
- 开发和验证一种新的计算策略,用于使用纳米孔直接测序进行高分辨率tRNA分析.
- 利用深度学习和离子电流信号来精确识别细菌和酵母tRNA中的异码编码器.
- 为了提高tRNA序列对齐的准确性,并探索离子电流数据的潜力,以检测tRNA修改.
主要方法:
- 纳米孔直接测序技术的应用,用于从tRNA分子捕获离子电流信号.
- 开发深度学习模型,从原始纳米孔离子电流数据直接预测tRNA异码编码器.
- 整合离子电流分析与对向序列对齐,以改善tRNA读取对齐和身份.
主要成果:
- 与现有的纳米孔策略相比,获得了 *E. coli* (2.6%) 和 *S. cerevisiae* (13.1%) 的tRNA读数的改进对齐率.
- 显示了对齐标识的显著增加,表明tRNA序列确定的准确性更高.
- 成功使用离子电流模型来确认实验样本中特定tRNA同型和分量的丰富.
- 展示了原始离子电流信号的信息丰富性质,用于解复杂的分子特征,包括化学修饰.
结论:
- 纳米孔直接tRNA测序与深度学习和离子电流分析相结合,为异解码器级tRNA表征提供了一个强大的工具.
- 这种先进的方法显著提高了 prokaryotes 和低级eukaryotes 中tRNA分析的准确性和效率.
- 这些发现对推进tRNA研究在发现生物学和人类健康应用方面具有广泛的影响.
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