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LncRNA expression profiles of Schizosaccharomyces pombe in DNA damage inducing environments

  • Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China

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https://doi.org/10.52396/JUST-2021-0074
  • Received Date: 15 March 2021
  • Rev Recd Date: 02 May 2021
  • Publish Date: 31 August 2021
    Abstract

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    LncRNAs are pervasively transcribed in eukaryotic cells and dynamically regulated in response to environmental changes. Compared to mRNAs, roles of lncRNAs in DNA damage responses are poorly understood. The lncRNA expression profiles of Schizosaccharomyces pombe under the treatment of four kinds of DNA damage generating drugs (camptothecin, hydroxyurea, methyl methanesulfonate and phleomycin) were systematically characterized by RNA-seq. Similar to mRNAs, lncRNA repertoires underwent drastic changes in response to DNA damage inducing environments. A Core DNA Damage Response lncRNA set of 161 commonly induced and 194 commonly repressed lncRNAs was identified. The differences between lncRNA and mRNA transcription profiles suggested that lncRNAs might conduct critical functions in DNA damage responses independent from their associated mRNAs. This profiling on lncRNA expressions provided data and resources for further functional studies of the fission yeast lncRNAs.

    Abstract

    LncRNAs are pervasively transcribed in eukaryotic cells and dynamically regulated in response to environmental changes. Compared to mRNAs, roles of lncRNAs in DNA damage responses are poorly understood. The lncRNA expression profiles of Schizosaccharomyces pombe under the treatment of four kinds of DNA damage generating drugs (camptothecin, hydroxyurea, methyl methanesulfonate and phleomycin) were systematically characterized by RNA-seq. Similar to mRNAs, lncRNA repertoires underwent drastic changes in response to DNA damage inducing environments. A Core DNA Damage Response lncRNA set of 161 commonly induced and 194 commonly repressed lncRNAs was identified. The differences between lncRNA and mRNA transcription profiles suggested that lncRNAs might conduct critical functions in DNA damage responses independent from their associated mRNAs. This profiling on lncRNA expressions provided data and resources for further functional studies of the fission yeast lncRNAs.
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    [1]
    Djebali S, Davis C A, Merkel A, et al. Landscape of transcription in human cells. Nature, 2012, 489(7414): 101-108.
    [2]
    Hangauer M J, Vaughn I W, Mcmanus M T. Pervasive transcription of the human genome produces thousands of previously unidentified long intergenic noncoding RNAs. PLoS Genet., 2013, 9(6): e1003569.
    [3]
    Wilhelm B T, Marguerat S, Watt S, et al. Dynamic repertoire of a eukaryotic transcriptome surveyed at single-nucleotide resolution. Nature, 2008, 453(7199): 1239-1243.
    [4]
    Statello L, Guo C J, Chen L L, et al. Gene regulation by long non-coding RNAs and its biological functions. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol., 2021, 22(2): 96-118.
    [5]
    Hon C C, Ramilowski J A, Harshbarger J, et al. An atlas of human long non-coding RNAs with accurate 5' ends. Nature, 2017, 543(7644): 199-204.
    [6]
    Marguerat S, Schmidt A, Codlin S, et al. Quantitative analysis of fission yeast transcriptomes and proteomes in proliferating and quiescent cells. Cell, 2012, 151(3): 671-683.
    [7]
    Derrien T, Johnson R, Bussotti G, et al. The GENCODE v7 catalog of human long noncoding RNAs: Analysis of their gene structure, evolution, and expression. Genome Res., 2012, 22(9): 1775-1789.
    [8]
    Pauli A, Valen E, Lin M F, et al. Systematic identification of long noncoding RNAs expressed during zebrafish embryogenesis. Genome Res., 2012, 22(3): 577-591.
    [9]
    Kopp F, Mendell J T. Functional classification and experimental dissection of long noncoding RNAs. Cell, 2018, 172(3): 393-407.
    [10]
    Wang X, Arai S, Song X, et al. Induced ncRNAs allosterically modify RNA-binding proteins in cis to inhibit transcription. Nature, 2008, 454(7200): 126-130.
    [11]
    Wan G, Hu X, Liu Y, et al. A novel non-coding RNA lncRNA-JADE connects DNA damage signalling to histone H4 acetylation. EMBO J., 2013, 32(21): 2833-2847.
    [12]
    Sharma V, Khurana S, Kubben N, et al. A BRCA1-interacting lncRNA regulates homologous recombination. EMBO Rep., 2015, 16(11): 1520-1534.
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    [16]
    Hylton H M, Lucas B E, Petreaca R C. Schizosaccharomyces pombe assays to study mitotic recombination outcomes. Genes (Basel), 2020, 11(1): 79.
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    Veloso A, Biewen B, Paulsen M T, et al. Genome-wide transcriptional effects of the anti-cancer agent camptothecin. PLoS One, 2013, 8(10): e78190.
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    Schlackow M, Nojima T, Gomes T, et al. Distinctive patterns of transcription and RNA processing for human lincRNAs . Mol. Cell, 2017, 65(1): 25--8.
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    Wei S, Chen H, Dzakah E E, et al. Systematic evaluation of C. elegans lincRNAs with CRISPR knockout mutants. Genome Biol., 2019, 20(1): 7.
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    Chen D, Toone W M, Mata J, et al. Global transcriptional responses of fission yeast to environmental stress. Mol. Biol. Cell, 2003, 14(1): 214-229.
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    Brown A J P, Larcombe D E, Pradhan A. Thoughts on the evolution of Core Environmental Responses in yeasts. Fungal Biol., 2020, 124(5): 475-481.
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    Hallsworth J E. Stress-free microbes lack vitality. Fungal Biol., 2018, 122(6): 379-385.
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    Mellor J, Woloszczuk R, Howe F S. The interleaved genome. Trends Genet., 2016, 32(1): 57-71.
    [50]
    Jensen T H, Jacquier A, Libri D. Dealing with pervasive transcription. Mol. Cell, 2013, 52(4): 473-484.
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