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Zhao T, Ma L, Xu S, Cai W, Li H, Duan Y. Narrowing down the candidates of beneficial A-to-I RNA editing by comparing the recoding sites with uneditable counterparts. Nucleus 2024; 15:2304503. [PMID: 38286757 PMCID: PMC10826634 DOI: 10.1080/19491034.2024.2304503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
Abstract
Adar-mediated adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing mainly occurs in nucleus and diversifies the transcriptome in a flexible manner. It has been a challenging task to identify beneficial editing sites from the sea of total editing events. The functional Ser>Gly auto-recoding site in insect Adar gene has uneditable Ser codons in ancestral nodes, indicating the selective advantage to having an editable status. Here, we extended this case study to more metazoan species, and also looked for all Drosophila recoding events with potential uneditable synonymous codons. Interestingly, in D. melanogaster, the abundant nonsynonymous editing is enriched in the codons that have uneditable counterparts, but the Adar Ser>Gly case suggests that the editable orthologous codons in other species are not necessarily edited. The use of editable versus ancestral uneditable codon is a smart way to infer the selective advantage of RNA editing, and priority might be given to these editing sites for functional studies due to the feasibility to construct an uneditable allele. Our study proposes an idea to narrow down the candidates of beneficial recoding sites. Meanwhile, we stress that the matched transcriptomes are needed to verify the conservation of editing events during evolution.
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- Tianyou Zhao
- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Zak H, Rozenfeld E, Levi M, Deng P, Gorelick D, Pozeilov H, Israel S, Paas Y, Paas Y, Li JB, Parnas M, Shohat-Ophir G. A highly conserved A-to-I RNA editing event within the glutamate-gated chloride channel GluClα is necessary for olfactory-based behaviors in Drosophila. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadi9101. [PMID: 39231215 PMCID: PMC11373593 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi9101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/29/2024] [Indexed: 09/06/2024]
Abstract
A-to-I RNA editing is a cellular mechanism that generates transcriptomic and proteomic diversity, which is essential for neuronal and immune functions. It involves the conversion of specific adenosines in RNA molecules to inosines, which are recognized as guanosines by cellular machinery. Despite the vast number of editing sites observed across the animal kingdom, pinpointing critical sites and understanding their in vivo functions remains challenging. Here, we study the function of an evolutionary conserved editing site in Drosophila, located in glutamate-gated chloride channel (GluClα). Our findings reveal that flies lacking editing at this site exhibit reduced olfactory responses to odors and impaired pheromone-dependent social interactions. Moreover, we demonstrate that editing of this site is crucial for the proper processing of olfactory information in projection neurons. Our results highlight the value of using evolutionary conservation as a criterion for identifying editing events with potential functional significance and paves the way for elucidating the intricate link between RNA modification, neuronal physiology, and behavior.
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- Hila Zak
- The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
- Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
- The Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
- Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
- The Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
- Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
- The Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
- Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
- The Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
- Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
- Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
- The Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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Bortoletto E, Rosani U, Sakaguchi A, Yoon J, Nagasawa K, Venier P. Insights into ADAR gene complement, expression patterns, and RNA editing landscape in Chlamys farreri. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2024; 151:109743. [PMID: 38964433 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2024.109743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2024] [Revised: 06/26/2024] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/06/2024]
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Adenosine Deaminases Acting on RNA (ADARs) are evolutionarily conserved enzymes known to convert adenosine to inosine in double-stranded RNAs and participate in host-virus interactions. Conducting a meta-analysis of available transcriptome data, we identified and characterised eight ADAR transcripts in Chlamys farreri, a farmed marine scallop susceptible to Acute viral necrosis virus (AVNV) infections and mortality outbreaks. Accordingly, we identified six ADAR genes in the Zhikong scallop genome, revised previous gene annotations, and traced alternative splicing variants. In detail, each ADAR gene encodes a unique combination of functional domains, always including the Adenosine deaminase domain, RNA binding domains and, in one case, two copies of a Z-DNA binding domain. After phylogenetic analysis, five C. farreri ADARs clustered in the ADAR1 clade along with sequences from diverse animal phyla. Gene expression analysis indicated CF051320 as the most expressed ADAR, especially in the eye and male gonad. The other four ADAR1 genes and one ADAR2 gene exhibited variable expression levels, with CF105370 and CF051320 significantly increasing during early scallop development. ADAR-mediated single-base editing, evaluated across adult C. farreri tissues and developmental stages, was mainly detectable in intergenic regions (83 % and 85 %, respectively). Overall, the expression patterns of the six ADAR genes together with the editing and hyper-editing values computed on scallops RNA-seq samples support the adaptive value of ADAR1-mediated editing, particularly in the pre-settling larval stages.
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, 35121, Padova, Italy
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- Laboratory of Aquaculture Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8572, Japan
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- Laboratory of Aquaculture Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8572, Japan
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- Laboratory of Aquaculture Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8572, Japan
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, 35121, Padova, Italy.
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Schneider N, Steinberg R, Ben-David A, Valensi J, David-Kadoch G, Rosenwasser Z, Banin E, Levanon EY, Sharon D, Ben-Aroya S. A pipeline for identifying guide RNA sequences that promote RNA editing of nonsense mutations that cause inherited retinal diseases. MOLECULAR THERAPY. NUCLEIC ACIDS 2024; 35:102130. [PMID: 38375504 PMCID: PMC10875612 DOI: 10.1016/j.omtn.2024.102130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
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Adenosine deaminases acting on RNA (ADARs) are endogenous enzymes catalyzing the deamination of adenosines to inosines, which are then read as guanosines during translation. This ability to recode makes ADAR an attractive therapeutic tool to edit genetic mutations and reprogram genetic information at the mRNA level. Using the endogenous ADARs and guiding them to a selected target has promising therapeutic potential. Indeed, different studies have reported several site-directed RNA-editing approaches for making targeted base changes in RNA molecules. The basic strategy has been to use guide RNAs (gRNAs) that hybridize and form a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) structure with the desired RNA target because of ADAR activity in regions of dsRNA formation. Here we report on a novel pipeline for identifying disease-causing variants as candidates for RNA editing, using a yeast-based screening system to select efficient gRNAs for editing of nonsense mutations, and test them in a human cell line reporter system. We have used this pipeline to modify the sequence of transcripts carrying nonsense mutations that cause inherited retinal diseases in the FAM161A, KIZ, TRPM1, and USH2A genes. Our approach can serve as a basis for gene therapy intervention in knockin mouse models and ultimately in human patients.
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- Nina Schneider
- Division of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Building 206, Room B-840, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Building 206, Room B-840, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Building 206, Room B-840, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Building 206, Room B-840, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Building 206, Room B-840, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Building 206, Room B-840, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
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Liu J, Zhao T, Zheng C, Ma L, Song F, Tian L, Cai W, Li H, Duan Y. An orthology-based methodology as a complementary approach to retrieve evolutionarily conserved A-to-I RNA editing sites. RNA Biol 2024; 21:29-45. [PMID: 39256954 PMCID: PMC11404581 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2024.2397757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 08/14/2024] [Accepted: 08/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/12/2024] Open
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Adar-mediated adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) mRNA editing is a conserved mechanism that exerts diverse regulatory functions during the development, evolution, and adaptation of metazoans. The accurate detection of RNA editing sites helps us understand their biological significance. In this work, with an improved genome assembly of honeybee (Apis mellifera), we used a new orthology-based methodology to complement the traditional pipeline of (de novo) RNA editing detection. Compared to the outcome of traditional pipeline, we retrieved many novel editing sites in CDS that are deeply conserved between honeybee and other distantly related insects. The newly retrieved sites were missed by the traditional de novo identification due to the stringent criteria for controlling false-positive rate. Caste-specific editing sites are identified, including an Ile>Met auto-recoding site in Adar. This recoding was even conserved between honeybee and bumblebee, suggesting its putative regulatory role in shaping the phenotypic plasticity of eusocial Hymenoptera. In summary, we proposed a complementary approach to the traditional pipeline and retrieved several previously unnoticed CDS editing sites. From both technical and biological aspects, our works facilitate future researches on finding the functional editing sites and advance our understanding on the connection between RNA editing and the great phenotypic diversity of organisms.
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- Jiyao Liu
- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Entomology and MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Xu Y, Liu J, Zhao T, Song F, Tian L, Cai W, Li H, Duan Y. Identification and Interpretation of A-to-I RNA Editing Events in Insect Transcriptomes. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:17126. [PMID: 38138955 PMCID: PMC10742984 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242417126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2023] [Revised: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/03/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is the most prevalent RNA modification in the nervous systems of metazoans. To study the biological significance of RNA editing, we first have to accurately identify these editing events from the transcriptome. The genome-wide identification of RNA editing sites remains a challenging task. In this review, we will first introduce the occurrence, regulation, and importance of A-to-I RNA editing and then describe the established bioinformatic procedures and difficulties in the accurate identification of these sit esespecially in small sized non-model insects. In brief, (1) to obtain an accurate profile of RNA editing sites, a transcriptome coupled with the DNA resequencing of a matched sample is favorable; (2) the single-cell sequencing technique is ready to be applied to RNA editing studies, but there are a few limitations to overcome; (3) during mapping and variant calling steps, various issues, like mapping and base quality, soft-clipping, and the positions of mismatches on reads, should be carefully considered; (4) Sanger sequencing of both RNA and the matched DNA is the best verification of RNA editing sites, but other auxiliary evidence, like the nonsynonymous-to-synonymous ratio or the linkage information, is also helpful for judging the reliability of editing sites. We have systematically reviewed the understanding of the biological significance of RNA editing and summarized the methodology for identifying such editing events. We also raised several promising aspects and challenges in this field. With insightful perspectives on both scientific and technical issues, our review will benefit the researchers in the broader RNA editing community.
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- MOA Key Lab of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; (Y.X.); (J.L.); (T.Z.); (F.S.); (L.T.); (W.C.); (H.L.)
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Vallecillo-Viejo IC, Voss G, Albertin CB, Liscovitch-Brauer N, Eisenberg E, Rosenthal JJC. Squid express conserved ADAR orthologs that possess novel features. Front Genome Ed 2023; 5:1181713. [PMID: 37342458 PMCID: PMC10278661 DOI: 10.3389/fgeed.2023.1181713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023] Open
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The coleoid cephalopods display unusually extensive mRNA recoding by adenosine deamination, yet the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Because the adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADAR) enzymes catalyze this form of RNA editing, the structure and function of the cephalopod orthologs may provide clues. Recent genome sequencing projects have provided blueprints for the full complement of coleoid cephalopod ADARs. Previous results from our laboratory have shown that squid express an ADAR2 homolog, with two splice variants named sqADAR2a and sqADAR2b and that these messages are extensively edited. Based on octopus and squid genomes, transcriptomes, and cDNA cloning, we discovered that two additional ADAR homologs are expressed in coleoids. The first is orthologous to vertebrate ADAR1. Unlike other ADAR1s, however, it contains a novel N-terminal domain of 641 aa that is predicted to be disordered, contains 67 phosphorylation motifs, and has an amino acid composition that is unusually high in serines and basic amino acids. mRNAs encoding sqADAR1 are themselves extensively edited. A third ADAR-like enzyme, sqADAR/D-like, which is not orthologous to any of the vertebrate isoforms, is also present. Messages encoding sqADAR/D-like are not edited. Studies using recombinant sqADARs suggest that only sqADAR1 and sqADAR2 are active adenosine deaminases, both on perfect duplex dsRNA and on a squid potassium channel mRNA substrate known to be edited in vivo. sqADAR/D-like shows no activity on these substrates. Overall, these results reveal some unique features in sqADARs that may contribute to the high-level RNA recoding observed in cephalopods.
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- The Eugene Bell Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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- The Eugene Bell Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Avram-Shperling A, Kopel E, Twersky I, Gabay O, Ben-David A, Karako-Lampert S, Rosenthal JJC, Levanon EY, Eisenberg E, Ben-Aroya S. Identification of exceptionally potent adenosine deaminases RNA editors from high body temperature organisms. PLoS Genet 2023; 19:e1010661. [PMID: 36877730 PMCID: PMC10019624 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 03/07/2023] Open
Abstract
The most abundant form of RNA editing in metazoa is the deamination of adenosines into inosines (A-to-I), catalyzed by ADAR enzymes. Inosines are read as guanosines by the translation machinery, and thus A-to-I may lead to protein recoding. The ability of ADARs to recode at the mRNA level makes them attractive therapeutic tools. Several approaches for Site-Directed RNA Editing (SDRE) are currently under development. A major challenge in this field is achieving high on-target editing efficiency, and thus it is of much interest to identify highly potent ADARs. To address this, we used the baker yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an editing-naïve system. We exogenously expressed a range of heterologous ADARs and identified the hummingbird and primarily mallard-duck ADARs, which evolved at 40-42°C, as two exceptionally potent editors. ADARs bind to double-stranded RNA structures (dsRNAs), which in turn are temperature sensitive. Our results indicate that species evolved to live with higher core body temperatures have developed ADAR enzymes that target weaker dsRNA structures and would therefore be more effective than other ADARs. Further studies may use this approach to isolate additional ADARs with an editing profile of choice to meet specific requirements, thus broadening the applicability of SDRE.
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- Adi Avram-Shperling
- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- The Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Eugene Bell Center, The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- The Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- * E-mail: (EE); (SB-A)
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- The Nano Center, The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- * E-mail: (EE); (SB-A)
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Zhang P, Zhu Y, Guo Q, Li J, Zhan X, Yu H, Xie N, Tan H, Lundholm N, Garcia-Cuetos L, Martin MD, Subirats MA, Su YH, Ruiz-Trillo I, Martindale MQ, Yu JK, Gilbert MTP, Zhang G, Li Q. On the origin and evolution of RNA editing in metazoans. Cell Rep 2023; 42:112112. [PMID: 36795564 PMCID: PMC9989829 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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Extensive adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing of nuclear-transcribed mRNAs is the hallmark of metazoan transcriptional regulation. Here, by profiling the RNA editomes of 22 species that cover major groups of Holozoa, we provide substantial evidence supporting A-to-I mRNA editing as a regulatory innovation originating in the last common ancestor of extant metazoans. This ancient biochemistry process is preserved in most extant metazoan phyla and primarily targets endogenous double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) formed by evolutionarily young repeats. We also find intermolecular pairing of sense-antisense transcripts as an important mechanism for forming dsRNA substrates for A-to-I editing in some but not all lineages. Likewise, recoding editing is rarely shared across lineages but preferentially targets genes involved in neural and cytoskeleton systems in bilaterians. We conclude that metazoan A-to-I editing might first emerge as a safeguard mechanism against repeat-derived dsRNA and was later co-opted into diverse biological processes due to its mutagenic nature.
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- Pei Zhang
- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China; Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China; College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- BGI Research-Wuhan, BGI, Wuhan 430074, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China; College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway; Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institute of Evolutionary Biology, UPF-CSIC Barcelona, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; ICREA, Passeig Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Facultat de Bilogia, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL 32080, USA
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- Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Marine Research Station, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Yilan 26242, Taiwan
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- Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway; Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center of Evolutionary and Organismal Biology, & Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University Medical Center, 1369 West Wenyi Road, Hangzhou 311121, China; State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China; Villum Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China; College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Rosenthal JJC, Eisenberg E. Extensive Recoding of the Neural Proteome in Cephalopods by RNA Editing. Annu Rev Anim Biosci 2023; 11:57-75. [PMID: 36790891 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-animal-060322-114534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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The coleoid cephalopods have the largest brains, and display the most complex behaviors, of all invertebrates. The molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie these remarkable advancements remain largely unexplored. Early molecular cloning studies of squid ion channel transcripts uncovered an unusually large number of A→I RNA editing sites that recoded codons. Further cloning of other neural transcripts showed a similar pattern. The advent of deep-sequencing technologies and the associated bioinformatics allowed the mapping of RNA editing events across the entire neural transcriptomes of various cephalopods. The results were remarkable: They contained orders of magnitude more recoding editing sites than any other taxon. Although RNA editing sites are abundant in most multicellular metazoans, they rarely recode. In cephalopods, the majority of neural transcripts are recoded. Recent studies have focused on whether these events are adaptive, as well as other noncanonical aspects of cephalopod RNA editing.
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- Joshua J C Rosenthal
- The Eugene Bell Center, The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA;
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Niescierowicz K, Pryszcz L, Navarrete C, Tralle E, Sulej A, Abu Nahia K, Kasprzyk ME, Misztal K, Pateria A, Pakuła A, Bochtler M, Winata C. Adar-mediated A-to-I editing is required for embryonic patterning and innate immune response regulation in zebrafish. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5520. [PMID: 36127363 PMCID: PMC9489775 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33260-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Adenosine deaminases (ADARs) catalyze the deamination of adenosine to inosine, also known as A-to-I editing, in RNA. Although A-to-I editing occurs widely across animals and is well studied, new biological roles are still being discovered. Here, we study the role of A-to-I editing in early zebrafish development. We demonstrate that Adar, the zebrafish orthologue of mammalian ADAR1, is essential for establishing the antero-posterior and dorso-ventral axes and patterning. Genome-wide editing discovery reveals pervasive editing in maternal and the earliest zygotic transcripts, the majority of which occurred in the 3'-UTR. Interestingly, transcripts implicated in gastrulation as well as dorso-ventral and antero-posterior patterning are found to contain multiple editing sites. Adar knockdown or overexpression affect gene expression by 12 hpf. Analysis of adar-/- zygotic mutants further reveals that the previously described role of Adar in mammals in regulating the innate immune response is conserved in zebrafish. Our study therefore establishes distinct maternal and zygotic functions of RNA editing by Adar in embryonic patterning along the zebrafish antero-posterior and dorso-ventral axes, and in the regulation of the innate immune response, respectively.
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.,Institute of Human Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. .,Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warsaw, Poland.
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- International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
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Chesnokova E, Beletskiy A, Kolosov P. The Role of Transposable Elements of the Human Genome in Neuronal Function and Pathology. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:5847. [PMID: 35628657 PMCID: PMC9148063 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23105847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Revised: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Transposable elements (TEs) have been extensively studied for decades. In recent years, the introduction of whole-genome and whole-transcriptome approaches, as well as single-cell resolution techniques, provided a breakthrough that uncovered TE involvement in host gene expression regulation underlying multiple normal and pathological processes. Of particular interest is increased TE activity in neuronal tissue, and specifically in the hippocampus, that was repeatedly demonstrated in multiple experiments. On the other hand, numerous neuropathologies are associated with TE dysregulation. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of literature about the role of TEs in neurons published over the last three decades. The first chapter of the present review describes known mechanisms of TE interaction with host genomes in general, with the focus on mammalian and human TEs; the second chapter provides examples of TE exaptation in normal neuronal tissue, including TE involvement in neuronal differentiation and plasticity; and the last chapter lists TE-related neuropathologies. We sought to provide specific molecular mechanisms of TE involvement in neuron-specific processes whenever possible; however, in many cases, only phenomenological reports were available. This underscores the importance of further studies in this area.
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- Ekaterina Chesnokova
- Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology of Learning, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117485 Moscow, Russia; (A.B.); (P.K.)
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Bar Yaacov D. Functional analysis of ADARs in planarians supports a bilaterian ancestral role in suppressing double-stranded RNA-response. PLoS Pathog 2022; 18:e1010250. [PMID: 35041722 PMCID: PMC8797187 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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ADARs (adenosine deaminases acting on RNA) are known for their adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing activity, and most recently, for their role in preventing aberrant dsRNA-response by activation of dsRNA sensors (i.e., RIG-I-like receptor homologs). However, it is still unclear whether suppressing spurious dsRNA-response represents the ancestral role of ADARs in bilaterians. As a first step to address this question, we identified ADAR1 and ADAR2 homologs in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, which is evolutionarily distant from canonical lab models (e.g., flies and nematodes). Our results indicate that knockdown of either planarian adar1 or adar2 by RNA interference (RNAi) resulted in upregulation of dsRNA-response genes, including three planarian rig-I-like receptor (prlr) homologs. Furthermore, independent knockdown of adar1 and adar2 reduced the number of infected cells with a dsRNA virus, suggesting they suppress a bona fide anti-viral dsRNA-response activity. Knockdown of adar1 also resulted in lesion formation and animal lethality, thus attesting to its essentiality. Simultaneous knockdown of adar1 and prlr1 rescued adar1(RNAi)-dependent animal lethality and rescued the dsRNA-response, suggesting that it contributes to the deleterious effect of adar1 knockdown. Finally, we found that ADAR2, but not ADAR1, mediates mRNA editing in planarians, suggesting at least in part non-redundant activities for planarians ADARs. Our results underline the essential role of ADARs in suppressing activation of harmful dsRNA-response in planarians, thus supporting it as their ancestral role in bilaterians. Our work also set the stage to study further and better understand the regulatory mechanisms governing anti-viral dsRNA-responses from an evolutionary standpoint using planarians as a model. Today, more than ever, it is crucial to gain a deep understating of our anti-viral defenses. One of the ways to accomplish it is to study the principles governing anti-viral responses across various organisms. ADARs are a group of proteins that act on RNA molecules and alter their sequence compared to the genes that encode them (a process termed RNA editing). In recent years, ADARs have been shown to suppress abnormal anti-viral responses triggered by self-components of the cell (RNA encoded by the cell). Here, we show that the involvement of ADARs in anti-viral response regulation is conserved in planarians (free-living flatworms). We identified two ADAR proteins in planarians and showed that eliminating one (ADAR1) results in animal death and that an anti-viral response commenced in the absence of either ADAR1 or ADAR2. We further identified one of the proteins (PRLR1) that participate in initiating this anti-viral response in planarians, which its mammalian homolog (MDA5) serves a similar role. Thus, our work suggests that ADARs involvement in suppressing aberrant anti-viral response is an ancient evolutionary invention and is likely shared across multicellular organisms with bilateral symmetry.
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- Dan Bar Yaacov
- The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Buckley KM, Dooley H. Immunological Diversity Is a Cornerstone of Organismal Defense and Allorecognition across Metazoa. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2022; 208:203-211. [PMID: 35017209 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2100754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 10/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The ongoing arms race between hosts and microbes has fueled the evolution of novel strategies for diversifying the molecules involved in immune responses. Characterization of immune systems from an ever-broadening phylogenetic range of organisms reveals that there are many mechanisms by which this diversity can be generated and maintained. Diversification strategies operate at the level of populations, genomes, genes, and even individual transcripts. Lineage-specific innovations have been cataloged within the immune systems of both invertebrates and vertebrates. Furthermore, somatic diversification of immune receptor genes has now been described in jawless vertebrates and some invertebrate species. In addition to pathogen detection, immunological diversity plays important roles in several distinct allorecognition systems. In this Brief Review, we highlight some of the evolutionary innovations employed by a variety of metazoan species to generate the molecular diversity required to detect a vast array of molecules in the context of both immune response and self/nonself-recognition.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology, Baltimore, MD
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Schneider N, Sundaresan Y, Gopalakrishnan P, Beryozkin A, Hanany M, Levanon EY, Banin E, Ben-Aroya S, Sharon D. Inherited retinal diseases: Linking genes, disease-causing variants, and relevant therapeutic modalities. Prog Retin Eye Res 2021; 89:101029. [PMID: 34839010 DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2021.101029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Revised: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a clinically complex and heterogenous group of visual impairment phenotypes caused by pathogenic variants in at least 277 nuclear and mitochondrial genes, affecting different retinal regions, and depleting the vision of affected individuals. Genes that cause IRDs when mutated are unique by possessing differing genotype-phenotype correlations, varying inheritance patterns, hypomorphic alleles, and modifier genes thus complicating genetic interpretation. Next-generation sequencing has greatly advanced the identification of novel IRD-related genes and pathogenic variants in the last decade. For this review, we performed an in-depth literature search which allowed for compilation of the Global Retinal Inherited Disease (GRID) dataset containing 4,798 discrete variants and 17,299 alleles published in 31 papers, showing a wide range of frequencies and complexities among the 194 genes reported in GRID, with 65% of pathogenic variants being unique to a single individual. A better understanding of IRD-related gene distribution, gene complexity, and variant types allow for improved genetic testing and therapies. Current genetic therapeutic methods are also quite diverse and rely on variant identification, and range from whole gene replacement to single nucleotide editing at the DNA or RNA levels. IRDs and their suitable therapies thus require a range of effective disease modelling in human cells, granting insight into disease mechanisms and testing of possible treatments. This review summarizes genetic and therapeutic modalities of IRDs, provides new analyses of IRD-related genes (GRID and complexity scores), and provides information to match genetic-based therapies such as gene-specific and variant-specific therapies to the appropriate individuals.
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- Nina Schneider
- Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91120, Israel
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91120, Israel
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91120, Israel
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91120, Israel
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91120, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91120, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91120, Israel.
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Piontkivska H, Wales-McGrath B, Miyamoto M, Wayne ML. ADAR Editing in Viruses: An Evolutionary Force to Reckon with. Genome Biol Evol 2021; 13:evab240. [PMID: 34694399 PMCID: PMC8586724 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/21/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Adenosine Deaminases that Act on RNA (ADARs) are RNA editing enzymes that play a dynamic and nuanced role in regulating transcriptome and proteome diversity. This editing can be highly selective, affecting a specific site within a transcript, or nonselective, resulting in hyperediting. ADAR editing is important for regulating neural functions and autoimmunity, and has a key role in the innate immune response to viral infections, where editing can have a range of pro- or antiviral effects and can contribute to viral evolution. Here we examine the role of ADAR editing across a broad range of viral groups. We propose that the effect of ADAR editing on viral replication, whether pro- or antiviral, is better viewed as an axis rather than a binary, and that the specific position of a given virus on this axis is highly dependent on virus- and host-specific factors, and can change over the course of infection. However, more research needs to be devoted to understanding these dynamic factors and how they affect virus-ADAR interactions and viral evolution. Another area that warrants significant attention is the effect of virus-ADAR interactions on host-ADAR interactions, particularly in light of the crucial role of ADAR in regulating neural functions. Answering these questions will be essential to developing our understanding of the relationship between ADAR editing and viral infection. In turn, this will further our understanding of the effects of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, as well as many others, and thereby influence our approach to treating these deadly diseases.
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- Helen Piontkivska
- Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, Ohio, USA
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State University, Ohio, USA
- Brain Health Research Institute, Kent State University, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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Li M, Larsen PA. Primate-specific retrotransposons and the evolution of circadian networks in the human brain. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 131:988-1004. [PMID: 34592258 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The circadian rhythm of the human brain is attuned to sleep-wake cycles that entail global alterations in neuronal excitability. This periodicity involves a highly coordinated regulation of gene expression. A growing number of studies are documenting a fascinating connection between primate-specific retrotransposons (Alu elements) and key epigenetic regulatory processes in the primate brain. Collectively, these studies indicate that Alu elements embedded in the human neuronal genome mediate post-transcriptional processes that unite human-specific neuroepigenetic landscapes and circadian rhythm. Here, we review evidence linking Alu retrotransposon-mediated posttranscriptional pathways to circadian gene expression. We hypothesize that Alu retrotransposons participate in the organization of circadian brain function through multidimensional neuroepigenetic pathways. We anticipate that these pathways are closely tied to the evolution of human cognition and their perturbation contributes to the manifestation of human-specific neurological diseases. Finally, we address current challenges and accompanying opportunities in studying primate- and human-specific transposable elements.
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- Manci Li
- University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States
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- University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, United States.
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Rengaraj P, Obrdlík A, Vukić D, Varadarajan NM, Keegan LP, Vaňáčová Š, O'Connell MA. Interplays of different types of epitranscriptomic mRNA modifications. RNA Biol 2021; 18:19-30. [PMID: 34424827 PMCID: PMC8677042 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2021.1969113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Eukaryotic mRNAs are modified by several chemical marks which have significant impacts on mRNA biology, gene expression, and cellular metabolism as well as on the survival and development of the whole organism. The most abundant and well-studied mRNA base modifications are m6A and ADAR RNA editing. Recent studies have also identified additional mRNA marks such as m6Am, m5C, m1A and Ψ and studied their roles. Each type of modification is deposited by a specific writer, many types of modification are recognized and interpreted by several different readers and some types of modifications can be removed by eraser enzymes. Several works have addressed the functional relationships between some of the modifications. In this review we provide an overview on the current status of research on the different types of mRNA modifications and about the crosstalk between different marks and its functional consequences.
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- Praveenkumar Rengaraj
- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), CEITEC, Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), CEITEC, Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), CEITEC, Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), CEITEC, Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), CEITEC, Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), CEITEC, Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), CEITEC, Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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Shoshan Y, Liscovitch-Brauer N, Rosenthal JJC, Eisenberg E. Adaptive Proteome Diversification by Nonsynonymous A-to-I RNA Editing in Coleoid Cephalopods. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:3775-3788. [PMID: 34022057 PMCID: PMC8382921 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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RNA editing by the ADAR enzymes converts selected adenosines into inosines, biological mimics for guanosines. By doing so, it alters protein-coding sequences, resulting in novel protein products that diversify the proteome beyond its genomic blueprint. Recoding is exceptionally abundant in the neural tissues of coleoid cephalopods (octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes), with an over-representation of nonsynonymous edits suggesting positive selection. However, the extent to which proteome diversification by recoding provides an adaptive advantage is not known. It was recently suggested that the role of evolutionarily conserved edits is to compensate for harmful genomic substitutions, and that there is no added value in having an editable codon as compared with a restoration of the preferred genomic allele. Here, we show that this hypothesis fails to explain the evolutionary dynamics of recoding sites in coleoids. Instead, our results indicate that a large fraction of the shared, strongly recoded, sites in coleoids have been selected for proteome diversification, meaning that the fitness of an editable A is higher than an uneditable A or a genomically encoded G.
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- Yoav Shoshan
- Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Mutation profiling of a limbless pig reveals genome-wide regulation of RNA processing related to bone development. J Appl Genet 2021; 62:643-653. [PMID: 34278546 DOI: 10.1007/s13353-021-00653-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Mutation is the basis of phenotypic changes and serves as the source of natural selection. The development of limbs has been the milestone in vertebrate evolution. Several limb and bone-related genes were verified experimentally, but other indirect and regulatory factors of limb development remained untested, especially very few cases were observed in natural environment. We report a naturally born serpentized pig without hindlimbs. Whole genome sequencing followed by comparative genomic analysis revealed multiple interesting patterns on the handicapped pig-specific mutations. Although the bone-related genes are not directly subjected to mutations, other regulatory factors such as the RNA deaminase genes Adar are damaged in the handicapped pig, leading to the abolished A-to-I deamination in many functional, conserved genes as well as the bone-related genes. This is a precious case that the limbless phenotype is observed in naturally born non-model organisms. Our study broadened the generality of the limbless phenotype across mammals and extended the regulation of hindlimb development to other non-bone-related genes. Our knowledge of limb and bone-related mutations and regulation would also contribute to human genetics.
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Buchumenski I, Holler K, Appelbaum L, Eisenberg E, Junker JP, Levanon EY. Systematic identification of A-to-I RNA editing in zebrafish development and adult organs. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:4325-4337. [PMID: 33872356 PMCID: PMC8096273 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Revised: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A-to-I RNA editing is a common post transcriptional mechanism, mediated by the Adenosine deaminase that acts on RNA (ADAR) enzymes, that increases transcript and protein diversity. The study of RNA editing is limited by the absence of editing maps for most model organisms, hindering the understanding of its impact on various physiological conditions. Here, we mapped the vertebrate developmental landscape of A-to-I RNA editing, and generated the first comprehensive atlas of editing sites in zebrafish. Tens of thousands unique editing events and 149 coding sites were identified with high-accuracy. Some of these edited sites are conserved between zebrafish and humans. Sequence analysis of RNA over seven developmental stages revealed high levels of editing activity in early stages of embryogenesis, when embryos rely on maternal mRNAs and proteins. In contrast to the other organisms studied so far, the highest levels of editing were detected in the zebrafish ovary and testes. This resource can serve as the basis for understanding of the role of editing during zebrafish development and maturity.
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- Ilana Buchumenski
- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- The Faculty of Life Sciences and the Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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Duan Y, Tang X, Lu J. Evolutionary driving forces of A-to-I editing in metazoans. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-RNA 2021; 13:e1666. [PMID: 33998151 DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Revised: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that converts adenosines to inosines in metazoans' transcriptomes. However, the landscapes of editomes have considerably changed during evolution. Here, we review some of our current knowledge of A-to-I editing in the metazoan transcriptomes, focusing on the possible evolutionary driving forces underlying the editing events. First, we review the evolution of ADAR gene family in animals. Then, we summarize the recent advances in characterizing the editomes of various metazoan species. Next, we highlight several factors contributing to the interspecies differences in editomes, including variations in copy number and expression patterns of ADAR genes, the differences in genomic architectures and contents, and the differences in the efficacy of natural selection. After that, we review the possible diversifying and restorative effects of the editing (recoding) events that change the protein sequences. Finally, we discuss the possible convergent evolution of RNA editing in distantly related clades. This article is categorized under: RNA Evolution and Genomics > RNA and Ribonucleoprotein Evolution RNA Processing > RNA Editing and Modification.
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- Yuange Duan
- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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RNA editing is an RNA modification that alters the RNA sequence relative to its genomic blueprint. The most common type of RNA editing is A-to-I editing by double-stranded RNA-specific adenosine deaminase (ADAR) enzymes. Editing of a protein-coding region within the RNA molecule may result in non-synonymous substitutions, leading to a modified protein product. These editing sites, also known as "recoding" sites, contribute to the complexity and diversification of the proteome. Recent computational transcriptomic studies have identified thousands of recoding sites in multiple species, many of which are conserved within (but not usually across) lineages and have functional and evolutionary importance. In this chapter we describe the recoding phenomenon across species, consider its potential utility for diversity and adaptation, and discuss its evolution.
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Following A-to-I editing of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) molecules, sequencing reactions interpret the edited inosine (I) as guanosine (G). For this reason, current methods to detect A-to-I editing sites work to align RNA sequences to their reference DNA sequence in order to reveal A-to-G mismatches. However, areas with heavily edited reads produce dense clusters of A-to-G mismatches that hinder alignment, and complicate correct identification of the sites. The presented approach employs prudent alignment and examination of excessive mismatch events, enabling high-accuracy detection of hyper-edited reads and sites.
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Duan Y, Dou S, Porath HT, Huang J, Eisenberg E, Lu J. A-to-I RNA editing in honeybees shows signals of adaptation and convergent evolution. iScience 2021; 24:101983. [PMID: 33458624 PMCID: PMC7797907 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Revised: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Social insects exhibit extensive phenotypic diversities among the genetically similar individuals, suggesting a role for the epigenetic regulations beyond the genome level. The ADAR-mediated adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing, an evolutionarily conserved mechanism, facilitates adaptive evolution by expanding proteomic diversities. Here, we characterize the A-to-I RNA editome of honeybees (Apis mellifera), identifying 407 high-confidence A-to-I editing sites. Editing is most abundant in the heads and shows signatures for positive selection. Editing behavior differs between foragers and nurses, suggesting a role for editing in caste differentiation. Although only five sites are conserved between bees and flies, an unexpectedly large number of genes exhibit editing in both species, albeit at different locations, including the nonsynonymous auto-editing of Adar. This convergent evolution, where the same target genes independently acquire recoding events in distant diverged clades, together with the signals of adaptation observed in honeybees alone, further supports the notion of recoding being adaptive. Nonsynonymous editing sites in honeybees were under positive selection Differential editing may contribute to the phenotypic diversity between sub-castes Target genes acquire editing in different clades, suggesting convergent evolution
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- Yuange Duan
- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.,Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
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- Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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Erdmann EA, Mahapatra A, Mukherjee P, Yang B, Hundley HA. To protect and modify double-stranded RNA - the critical roles of ADARs in development, immunity and oncogenesis. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 2020; 56:54-87. [PMID: 33356612 DOI: 10.1080/10409238.2020.1856768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs) are present in all animals and function to both bind double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and catalyze the deamination of adenosine (A) to inosine (I). As inosine is a biological mimic of guanosine, deamination by ADARs changes the genetic information in the RNA sequence and is commonly referred to as RNA editing. Millions of A-to-I editing events have been reported for metazoan transcriptomes, indicating that RNA editing is a widespread mechanism used to generate molecular and phenotypic diversity. Loss of ADARs results in lethality in mice and behavioral phenotypes in worm and fly model systems. Furthermore, alterations in RNA editing occur in over 35 human pathologies, including several neurological disorders, metabolic diseases, and cancers. In this review, a basic introduction to ADAR structure and target recognition will be provided before summarizing how ADARs affect the fate of cellular RNAs and how researchers are using this knowledge to engineer ADARs for personalized medicine. In addition, we will highlight the important roles of ADARs and RNA editing in innate immunity and cancer biology.
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- Emily A Erdmann
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Medical Sciences Program, Indiana University School of Medicine-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Medical Sciences Program, Indiana University School of Medicine-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA
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Brachova P, Alvarez NS, Hong X, Gunewardena S, Vincent KA, Latham KE, Christenson LK. Inosine RNA modifications are enriched at the codon wobble position in mouse oocytes and eggs†. Biol Reprod 2020; 101:938-949. [PMID: 31346607 DOI: 10.1093/biolre/ioz130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 07/07/2019] [Accepted: 07/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Mammalian oocytes and eggs are transcriptionally quiescent and depend on post-transcriptional mechanisms for proper maturation. Post-transcriptional mRNA modifications comprise an important regulatory mechanism that can alter protein and miRNA recognition sites, splicing, stability, secondary structure, and protein coding. We discovered that fully grown mouse germinal vesicle oocytes and metaphase II eggs display abundant inosine mRNA modifications compared to growing oocytes from postnatal day 12 oocytes. These inosines were enriched in mRNA protein coding regions (CDS) and specifically located at the third codon base, or wobble position. Inosines, observed at lower frequencies in CDS of somatic tissues, were similarly enriched at the codon wobble position. In oocytes and eggs, inosine modifications lead primarily to synonymous changes in mRNA transcripts. Inosines may ultimately affect maternal mRNA stability by changing codon usage, thereby altering translational efficiency and translationally coupled mRNA degradation. These important observations advance our understanding of post-transcriptional mechanisms contributing to mammalian oocyte maturation.
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- Pavla Brachova
- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.,De Novo Genomics, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Animal Science and Reproductive and Developmental Sciences Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Animal Science and Reproductive and Developmental Sciences Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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Jiang D, Zhang J. The preponderance of nonsynonymous A-to-I RNA editing in coleoids is nonadaptive. Nat Commun 2019; 10:5411. [PMID: 31776345 PMCID: PMC6881472 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13275-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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A-to-I editing enzymatically converts the base adenosine (A) in RNA molecules to inosine (I), which is recognized as guanine (G) in translation. Exceptionally abundant A-to-I editing was recently discovered in the neural tissues of coleoids (octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes), with a greater fraction of nonsynonymous sites than synonymous sites subject to high levels of editing. Although this phenomenon is thought to indicate widespread adaptive editing, its potential advantage is unknown. Here we propose an alternative, nonadaptive explanation. Specifically, increasing the cellular editing activity permits some otherwise harmful G-to-A nonsynonymous substitutions, because the As are edited to Is at sufficiently high levels. These high editing levels are constrained upon substitutions, resulting in the predominance of nonsynonymous editing at highly edited sites. Our evidence for this explanation suggests that the prevalent nonsynonymous editing in coleoids is generally nonadaptive, as in species with much lower editing activities. The neural tissues of coleoids have a greater fraction of nonsynonymous sites than synonymous sites subject to high levels of A-to-I RNA editing, a pattern thought to indicate widespread adaptive editing. Here the authors propose and provide evidence for an alternative, nonadaptive explanation.
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- Daohan Jiang
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
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Mai TL, Chuang TJ. A-to-I RNA editing contributes to the persistence of predicted damaging mutations in populations. Genome Res 2019; 29:1766-1776. [PMID: 31515285 PMCID: PMC6836733 DOI: 10.1101/gr.246033.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is a very common co-/posttranscriptional modification that can lead to A-to-G changes at the RNA level and compensate for G-to-A genomic changes to a certain extent. It has been shown that each healthy individual can carry dozens of missense variants predicted to be severely deleterious. Why strongly detrimental variants are preserved in a population and not eliminated by negative natural selection remains mostly unclear. Here, we ask if RNA editing correlates with the burden of deleterious A/G polymorphisms in a population. Integrating genome and transcriptome sequencing data from 447 human lymphoblastoid cell lines, we show that nonsynonymous editing activities (prevalence/level) are negatively correlated with the deleteriousness of A-to-G genomic changes and positively correlated with that of G-to-A genomic changes within the population. We find a significantly negative correlation between nonsynonymous editing activities and allele frequency of A within the population. This negative editing-allele frequency correlation is particularly strong when editing sites are located in highly important genes/loci. Examinations of deleterious missense variants from the 1000 Genomes Project further show a significantly higher proportion of rare missense mutations for G-to-A changes than for other types of changes. The proportion for G-to-A changes increases with increasing deleterious effects of the changes. Moreover, the deleteriousness of G-to-A changes is significantly positively correlated with the percentage of editing enzyme binding motifs at the variants. Overall, we show that nonsynonymous editing is associated with the increased burden of G-to-A missense mutations in healthy individuals, expanding RNA editing in pathogenomics studies.
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- Te-Lun Mai
- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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Rosani U, Bai CM, Maso L, Shapiro M, Abbadi M, Domeneghetti S, Wang CM, Cendron L, MacCarthy T, Venier P. A-to-I editing of Malacoherpesviridae RNAs supports the antiviral role of ADAR1 in mollusks. BMC Evol Biol 2019; 19:149. [PMID: 31337330 PMCID: PMC6651903 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-019-1472-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background Adenosine deaminase enzymes of the ADAR family are conserved in metazoans. They convert adenine into inosine in dsRNAs and thus alter both structural properties and the coding potential of their substrates. Acting on exogenous dsRNAs, ADAR1 exerts a pro- or anti-viral role in vertebrates and Drosophila. Results We traced 4 ADAR homologs in 14 lophotrochozoan genomes and we classified them into ADAD, ADAR1 or ADAR2, based on phylogenetic and structural analyses of the enzymatic domain. Using RNA-seq and quantitative real time PCR we demonstrated the upregulation of one ADAR1 homolog in the bivalve Crassostrea gigas and in the gastropod Haliotis diversicolor supertexta during Ostreid herpesvirus-1 or Haliotid herpesvirus-1 infection. Accordingly, we demonstrated an extensive ADAR-mediated editing of viral RNAs. Single nucleotide variation (SNV) profiles obtained by pairing RNA- and DNA-seq data from the viral infected individuals resulted to be mostly compatible with ADAR-mediated A-to-I editing (up to 97%). SNVs occurred at low frequency in genomic hotspots, denoted by the overlapping of viral genes encoded on opposite DNA strands. The SNV sites and their upstream neighbor nucleotide indicated the targeting of selected adenosines. The analysis of viral sequences suggested that, under the pressure of the ADAR editing, the two Malacoherpesviridae genomes have evolved to reduce the number of deamination targets. Conclusions We report, for the first time, evidence of an extensive editing of Malacoherpesviridae RNAs attributable to host ADAR1 enzymes. The analysis of base neighbor preferences, structural features and expression profiles of molluscan ADAR1 supports the conservation of the enzyme function among metazoans and further suggested that ADAR1 exerts an antiviral role in mollusks. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12862-019-1472-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Umberto Rosani
- Department of Biology, University of Padova, 32121, Padova, Italy. .,Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Wadden Sea Station, 25992, List auf Sylt, Germany.
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- Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, 32121, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, 35020, Legnaro, Italy
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- Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, 32121, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, 32121, Padova, Italy.
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Modifications of RNA affect its function and stability. RNA editing is unique among these modifications because it not only alters the cellular fate of RNA molecules but also alters their sequence relative to the genome. The most common type of RNA editing is A-to-I editing by double-stranded RNA-specific adenosine deaminase (ADAR) enzymes. Recent transcriptomic studies have identified a number of 'recoding' sites at which A-to-I editing results in non-synonymous substitutions in protein-coding sequences. Many of these recoding sites are conserved within (but not usually across) lineages, are under positive selection and have functional and evolutionary importance. However, systematic mapping of the editome across the animal kingdom has revealed that most A-to-I editing sites are located within mobile elements in non-coding parts of the genome. Editing of these non-coding sites is thought to have a critical role in protecting against activation of innate immunity by self-transcripts. Both recoding and non-coding events have implications for genome evolution and, when deregulated, may lead to disease. Finally, ADARs are now being adapted for RNA engineering purposes.
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Sinigaglia K, Wiatrek D, Khan A, Michalik D, Sambrani N, Sedmík J, Vukić D, O'Connell MA, Keegan LP. ADAR RNA editing in innate immune response phasing, in circadian clocks and in sleep. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2019; 1862:356-369. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2018.10.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Revised: 10/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Rosani U, Shapiro M, Venier P, Allam B. A Needle in A Haystack: Tracing Bivalve-Associated Viruses in High-Throughput Transcriptomic Data. Viruses 2019; 11:v11030205. [PMID: 30832203 PMCID: PMC6466128 DOI: 10.3390/v11030205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2019] [Revised: 02/25/2019] [Accepted: 02/25/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Bivalve mollusks thrive in environments rich in microorganisms, such as estuarine and coastal waters, and they tend to accumulate various particles, including viruses. However, the current knowledge on mollusk viruses is mainly centered on few pathogenic viruses, whereas a general view of bivalve-associated viromes is lacking. This study was designed to explore the viral abundance and diversity in bivalve mollusks using transcriptomic datasets. From analyzing RNA-seq data of 58 bivalve species, we have reconstructed 26 nearly complete and over 413 partial RNA virus genomes. Although 96.4% of the predicted viral proteins refer to new viruses, some sequences belong to viruses associated with bivalve species or other marine invertebrates. We considered short non-coding RNAs (sncRNA) and post-transcriptional modifications occurring specifically on viral RNAs as tools for virus host-assignment. We could not identify virus-derived small RNAs in sncRNA reads obtained from the oyster sample richest in viral reads. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) analysis revealed 938 A-to-G substitutions occurring on the 26 identified RNA viruses, preferentially impacting the AA di-nucleotide motif. Under-representation analysis revealed that the AA motif is under-represented in these bivalve-associated viruses. These findings improve our understanding of bivalve viromes, and set the stage for targeted investigations on the specificity and dynamics of identified viruses.
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- Umberto Rosani
- Department of Biology, University of Padua, 35121 Padua, Italy.
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA.
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- Department of Biology, University of Padua, 35121 Padua, Italy.
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA.
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Montiel-Gonzalez MF, Diaz Quiroz JF, Rosenthal JJC. Current strategies for Site-Directed RNA Editing using ADARs. Methods 2019; 156:16-24. [PMID: 30502398 PMCID: PMC6814296 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2018.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2018] [Revised: 11/22/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Adenosine Deaminases that Act on RNA (ADARs) are a group of enzymes that catalyze the conversion of adenosines (A's) to inosines (I's) in a process known as RNA editing. Though ADARs can act on different types of RNA, editing events in coding regions of mRNA are of particular interest as I's base pair like guanosines (G's). Thus, every A-to-I change catalyzed by ADAR is read as an A-to-G change during translation, potentially altering protein sequence and function. This ability to re-code makes ADAR an attractive therapeutic tool to correct genetic mutations within mRNA. The main challenge in doing so is to re-direct ADAR's catalytic activity towards A's that are not naturally edited, a process termed Site-Directed RNA Editing (SDRE). Recently, a handful of labs have taken up this challenge and two basic strategies have emerged. The first involves redirecting endogenous ADAR to new sites by making editable structures using antisense RNA oligonucleotides. The second also utilizes antisense RNA oligonucleotides, but it uses them as guides to deliver the catalytic domain of engineered ADARs to new sites, much as CRISPR guides deliver Cas nucleases. In fact, despite the intense current focus on CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, SDRE offers a number of distinct advantages. In the present review we will discuss these strategies in greater detail, focusing on the concepts on which they are based, how they were developed and tested, and their respective advantages and disadvantages. Though the precise and efficient re-direction of ADAR activity still remains a challenge, the systems that are being developed lay the foundation for SDRE as a powerful tool for transient genome editing.
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MESH Headings
- Adenosine/metabolism
- Adenosine Deaminase/genetics
- Adenosine Deaminase/metabolism
- Animals
- CRISPR-Associated Protein 9/genetics
- CRISPR-Associated Protein 9/metabolism
- CRISPR-Cas Systems
- Genome, Human
- Humans
- Inosine/metabolism
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed/methods
- Oligoribonucleotides, Antisense/genetics
- Oligoribonucleotides, Antisense/metabolism
- Protein Domains
- RNA Editing
- RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems/genetics
- RNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
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Guo Y, Yu H, Samuels DC, Yue W, Ness S, Zhao YY. Single-nucleotide variants in human RNA: RNA editing and beyond. Brief Funct Genomics 2019; 18:30-39. [PMID: 30312373 PMCID: PMC7962770 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/ely032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Revised: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 09/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Through analysis of paired high-throughput DNA-Seq and RNA-Seq data, researchers quickly recognized that RNA-Seq can be used for more than just gene expression quantification. The alternative applications of RNA-Seq data are abundant, and we are particularly interested in its usefulness for detecting single-nucleotide variants, which arise from RNA editing, genomic variants and other RNA modifications. A stunning discovery made from RNA-Seq analyses is the unexpectedly high prevalence of RNA-editing events, many of which cannot be explained by known RNA-editing mechanisms. Over the past 6-7 years, substantial efforts have been made to maximize the potential of RNA-Seq data. In this review we describe the controversial history of mining RNA-editing events from RNA-Seq data and the corresponding development of methodologies to identify, predict, assess the quality of and catalog RNA-editing events as well as genomic variants.
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- Yan Guo
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, School of Life Sciences, Northwest University,Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
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Riemondy KA, Gillen AE, White EA, Bogren LK, Hesselberth JR, Martin SL. Dynamic temperature-sensitive A-to-I RNA editing in the brain of a heterothermic mammal during hibernation. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2018; 24:1481-1495. [PMID: 30065024 PMCID: PMC6191720 DOI: 10.1261/rna.066522.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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RNA editing diversifies genomically encoded information to expand the complexity of the transcriptome. In ectothermic organisms, including Drosophila and Cephalopoda, where body temperature mirrors ambient temperature, decreases in environmental temperature lead to increases in A-to-I RNA editing and cause amino acid recoding events that are thought to be adaptive responses to temperature fluctuations. In contrast, endothermic mammals, including humans and mice, typically maintain a constant body temperature despite environmental changes. Here, A-to-I editing primarily targets repeat elements, rarely results in the recoding of amino acids, and plays a critical role in innate immune tolerance. Hibernating ground squirrels provide a unique opportunity to examine RNA editing in a heterothermic mammal whose body temperature varies over 30°C and can be maintained at 5°C for many days during torpor. We profiled the transcriptome in three brain regions at six physiological states to quantify RNA editing and determine whether cold-induced RNA editing modifies the transcriptome as a potential mechanism for neuroprotection at low temperature during hibernation. We identified 5165 A-to-I editing sites in 1205 genes with dynamically increased editing after prolonged cold exposure. The majority (99.6%) of the cold-increased editing sites are outside of previously annotated coding regions, 82.7% lie in SINE-derived repeats, and 12 sites are predicted to recode amino acids. Additionally, A-to-I editing frequencies increase with increasing cold-exposure, demonstrating that ADAR remains active during torpor. Our findings suggest that dynamic A-to-I editing at low body temperature may provide a neuroprotective mechanism to limit aberrant dsRNA accumulation during torpor in the mammalian hibernator.
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- Kent A Riemondy
- RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
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- RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
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- RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
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- RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
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- RNA Bioscience Initiative, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
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Duan Y, Dou S, Zhang H, Wu C, Wu M, Lu J. Linkage of A-to-I RNA Editing in Metazoans and the Impact on Genome Evolution. Mol Biol Evol 2018; 35:132-148. [PMID: 29048557 PMCID: PMC5850729 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msx274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editomes have been systematically characterized in various metazoan species, and many editing sites were found in clusters. However, it remains unclear whether the clustered editing sites tend to be linked in the same RNA molecules or not. By adopting a method originally designed to detect linkage disequilibrium of DNA mutations, we examined the editomes of ten metazoan species and detected extensive linkage of editing in Drosophila and cephalopods. The prevalent linkages of editing in these two clades, many of which are conserved between closely related species and might be associated with the adaptive proteomic recoding, are maintained by natural selection at the cost of genome evolution. Nevertheless, in worms and humans, we only detected modest proportions of linked editing events, the majority of which were not conserved. Furthermore, the linkage of editing in coding regions of worms and humans might be overall deleterious, which drives the evolution of DNA sites to escape promiscuous editing. Altogether, our results suggest that the linkage landscape of A-to-I editing has evolved during metazoan evolution. This present study also suggests that linkage of editing should be considered in elucidating the functional consequences of RNA editing.
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- Yuange Duan
- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is an important post-transcriptional modification that affects the information encoded from DNA to RNA to protein. RNA editing can generate a multitude of transcript isoforms and can potentially be used to optimize protein function in response to varying conditions. In light of this and the fact that millions of editing sites have been identified in many different species, it is interesting to examine the extent to which these sites have evolved to be functionally important. In this review, we discuss results pertaining to the evolution of RNA editing, specifically in humans, cephalopods, and Drosophila. We focus on how comparative genomics approaches have aided in the identification of sites that are likely to be advantageous. The use of RNA editing as a mechanism to adapt to varying environmental conditions will also be reviewed.
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- Arielle L. Yablonovitch
- Stanford University, Department of Genetics, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Stanford University, Biophysics Program, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Stanford University, Department of Genetics, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Stanford University, Department of Genetics, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Stanford University, Department of Genetics, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Porath HT, Knisbacher BA, Eisenberg E, Levanon EY. Massive A-to-I RNA editing is common across the Metazoa and correlates with dsRNA abundance. Genome Biol 2017; 18:185. [PMID: 28969707 PMCID: PMC5625713 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1315-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Adenosine to inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is a post-transcriptional modification catalyzed by the ADAR (adenosine deaminase that acts on RNA) enzymes, which are ubiquitously expressed among metazoans. Technical requirements have limited systematic mapping of editing sites to a small number of organisms. Thus, the extent of editing across the metazoan lineage is largely unknown. RESULTS Here, we apply a computational procedure to search for RNA-sequencing reads containing clusters of editing sites in 21 diverse organisms. Clusters of editing sites are abundant in repetitive genomic regions that putatively form double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) structures and are rarely seen in coding regions. The method reveals a considerable variation in hyper-editing levels across species, which is partly explained by differences in the potential of sequences to form dsRNA structures and the variability of ADAR proteins. Several commonly used model animals exhibit low editing levels and editing levels in primates is not exceptionally high, as previously suggested. CONCLUSIONS Editing by ADARs is highly prevalent across the Metazoa, mostly targeting dsRNA structures formed by genomic repeats. The degree to which the transcriptome of a given species undergoes hyper-editing is governed by the repertoire of repeats in the underlying genome. The strong association of RNA editing with the long dsRNA regions originating from non-coding repetitive elements is contrasted by the almost non-existing signal seen in coding regions. Hyper-edited regions are rarely expressed in a non-edited form. These results support the notion that the main role of ADAR is to suppress the cellular response to endogenous dsRNA structures.
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- Hagit T Porath
- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
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- The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
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