Samorowska Klaudia, Wanowska Elżbieta, Szcześniak Michał Wojciech
Faculty of Biology, Institute of Human Biology and Evolution, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
Int J Mol Sci. 2025 May 26;26(11):5108. doi: 10.3390/ijms26115108.
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts over 200 nucleotides long that do not encode proteins. Although many lncRNAs remain uncharacterized, they are known to play diverse regulatory roles in gene expression. A group of lncRNAs called natural antisense transcripts can form double-stranded structures with their sense partners due to sequence complementarity. These duplexes can become substrates for A-to-I RNA editing, an epitranscriptomic modification mediated by ADAR enzymes. RNA editing is known to influence transcript splicing, affect the resulting gene expression product or alter RNA stability, all of which can impact cancer cell biology. Here, we show a novel natural antisense transcript, , that we have identified and characterized in terms of its cellular localization and sense partner interactions. Furthermore, we demonstrate that affects cell proliferation and regulates the stability of the sense transcript. Finally, using publicly available RNA sequencing data, we identify A-to-I RNA editing events in the protein-coding gene and further confirm them by RT-PCR and Sanger sequencing in MCF7 cell lines. We hypothesize that may act as a triggering factor for the A-to-I RNA editing process in its sense partner. Our findings highlight the regulatory role of and suggest its involvement in RNA editing and cancer biology.
长链非编码RNA(lncRNAs)是长度超过200个核苷酸且不编码蛋白质的转录本。尽管许多lncRNAs的功能仍未明确,但已知它们在基因表达中发挥多种调节作用。一类被称为天然反义转录本的lncRNAs可因其序列互补性与其正义链伙伴形成双链结构。这些双链体可成为A-to-I RNA编辑的底物,A-to-I RNA编辑是一种由ADAR酶介导的表观转录组修饰。已知RNA编辑会影响转录本剪接、影响最终的基因表达产物或改变RNA稳定性,所有这些都会影响癌细胞生物学特性。在此,我们展示了一种新的天然反义转录本,我们已对其细胞定位和正义链伙伴相互作用进行了鉴定和表征。此外,我们证明该转录本会影响细胞增殖并调节其正义链转录本的稳定性。最后,利用公开的RNA测序数据,我们在蛋白质编码基因中鉴定出A-to-I RNA编辑事件,并通过RT-PCR和桑格测序在MCF7细胞系中进一步证实了这些事件。我们假设该转录本可能作为其正义链伙伴中A-to-I RNA编辑过程的触发因子。我们的研究结果突出了该转录本的调节作用,并表明其参与了RNA编辑和癌症生物学过程。
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