The School of Medical Humanities, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang 453003, China.
Henan International Joint Laboratory of Aquatic Toxicology and Health Protection, College of Life Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, China.
Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Aug 11;23(16):8944. doi: 10.3390/ijms23168944.
Caudal fin regeneration is regulated by a variety of mechanisms, but the role of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) has rarely been studied. The present study aimed to describe the landscape of lncRNAs during caudal fin regeneration using whole transcriptome sequencing, and then to conduct a functional study on the target lncRNAs using real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR), in situ hybridization, and the CRISPR/Cas9 method for lncRNA gene knockout. The results of the transcriptome sequencing showed that a total of 381 lncRNAs were differentially expressed, among which ENSDART00000154324 (lincRNA-154324) was found to be highly related to caudal fin regeneration, and thus it was chosen as the target lncRNA for the subsequent functional study. The results regarding the temporal and spatial expression of lincRNA-154324 and the gene knockout results from CRISPR/Cas9 indicated that lincRNA-154324 is involved in the caudal fin regeneration of zebrafish. Importantly, we serendipitously discovered that the cis correlation coefficient between lincRNA-154324 and its neighboring gene vacuole membrane protein 1 () is extremely high, and they are essential for the process of caudal fin regeneration. Moreover, studies have found that plays an important role in protein secretion, organelle formation, multicellular development, and autophagy. Collectively, our result may provide a framework for the identification and analysis of lncRNAs involved in the regeneration of the zebrafish caudal fin.
尾部鳍再生受多种机制调控,但长链非编码 RNA(lncRNA)的作用很少被研究。本研究旨在通过全转录组测序描述尾部鳍再生过程中的 lncRNA 图谱,然后使用实时荧光定量 PCR(RT-qPCR)、原位杂交和 CRISPR/Cas9 方法进行 lncRNA 基因敲除,对靶 lncRNA 进行功能研究。转录组测序结果表明,共发现 381 个差异表达的 lncRNA,其中 ENSDART00000154324(lincRNA-154324)与尾部鳍再生高度相关,因此被选为后续功能研究的靶 lncRNA。lincRNA-154324 的时空表达和 CRISPR/Cas9 基因敲除结果表明,lincRNA-154324 参与了斑马鱼的尾部鳍再生。重要的是,我们偶然发现 lincRNA-154324 与其邻近基因液泡膜蛋白 1()之间的顺式相关系数极高,它们对尾部鳍再生过程至关重要。此外,研究发现在蛋白质分泌、细胞器形成、多细胞发育和自噬中发挥重要作用。总之,我们的结果可能为鉴定和分析参与斑马鱼尾部鳍再生的 lncRNA 提供了一个框架。