Publication Date:
2014-01-28
Description:
Only a very small fraction of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are well characterized. The evolutionary history of lncRNAs can provide insights into their functionality, but the absence of lncRNA annotations in non-model organisms has precluded comparative analyses. Here we present a large-scale evolutionary study of lncRNA repertoires and expression patterns, in 11 tetrapod species. We identify approximately 11,000 primate-specific lncRNAs and 2,500 highly conserved lncRNAs, including approximately 400 genes that are likely to have originated more than 300 million years ago. We find that lncRNAs, in particular ancient ones, are in general actively regulated and may function predominantly in embryonic development. Most lncRNAs evolve rapidly in terms of sequence and expression levels, but tissue specificities are often conserved. We compared expression patterns of homologous lncRNA and protein-coding families across tetrapods to reconstruct an evolutionarily conserved co-expression network. This network suggests potential functions for lncRNAs in fundamental processes such as spermatogenesis and synaptic transmission, but also in more specific mechanisms such as placenta development through microRNA production.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Necsulea, Anamaria -- Soumillon, Magali -- Warnefors, Maria -- Liechti, Angelica -- Daish, Tasman -- Zeller, Ulrich -- Baker, Julie C -- Grutzner, Frank -- Kaessmann, Henrik -- 099175/Z/12/Z/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2014 Jan 30;505(7485):635-40. doi: 10.1038/nature12943. Epub 2014 Jan 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland [2] Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland [3] Laboratory of Developmental Genomics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland (A.N.); Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA, and Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA (M.S.). ; 1] Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland [2] Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. ; The Robinson Institute, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia. ; Department of Systematic Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt University Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany. ; Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24463510" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Anura/genetics
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Chickens/genetics
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Conserved Sequence/genetics
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*Evolution, Molecular
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Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/genetics
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Genomics
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Humans
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Mice
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MicroRNAs/genetics
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Multigene Family
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Primates/genetics
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Proteins/genetics
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RNA Precursors/genetics
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RNA, Long Noncoding/*genetics
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Transcriptome
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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