Identification and characterization of ERV transcripts in goat embryos
Identification and characterization of ERV transcripts in goat embryos
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山羊胚胎中 ERV 转录本的鉴定和表征
DOI:
10.1530/rep-18-0336
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发表时间:
2019-01-01
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影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Liu, Jun
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作者:
Deng, Ruizhi;Han, Chengquan;Liu, Jun
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), which are abundant in mammalian genomes, can modulate the expression of nearby genes, and their expression is dynamic and stage-specific during early embryonic development in mice and humans. However, the functions and mechanisms of ERV elements in regulating embryonic development remain unclear. Here, we utilized several methods to determine the contribution of ERVs to the makeup and regulation of transcripts during embryonic genome activation (EGA). We constructed an ERV library and embryo RNA-seq library (IVF_2c and IVF_8c) of goat to serve as our research basis. The GO and KEGG analysis of nearby ERV genes revealed that some ERV elements may be associated with embryonic development. RNA-seq results were consistent with the features of EGA. To obtain the transcripts derived from the ERV sequences, we blasted the ERV sequences with embryonic transcripts and identified three IncRNAs and one mRNA that were highly expressed in IVF-8c rather than in IVF-2c (q-value