Journal: Science Advances
Article Title: Soma-derived 30-nt small RNAs are coupled with chromosome breakage and precisely target nontransposon DNA against elimination in Euplotes vannus
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adx3690
Figure Lengend Snippet: ( A ) Distributions of sRNA sizes from 0 to 75 hpm. The top illustrations approximately represent the conjugating process of each sample. Colored bars represent the proportional contributions of sRNA reads. “mRNA-seq” represents the de novo–assembled transcripts that could not align with the MAC genome. ( B ) The sequence coverage of MAC chromosomes by 30-nt sRNAs (bottom) and the proportion of chromosomes producing 30-nt sRNAs (pie charts in the top panel). “All” refers to integrated sRNA reads of all samples. ( C ) The abundance correlation between 30-nt sRNA reads (normalized to transcripts per million) and genomic DNA (gDNA) reads (top) or RNA-seq reads (bottom). ( D ) Visualization of 30-nt sRNA read alignments to MAC (top) and MIC chromosomes (bottom) using Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). ( E ) Coverage of exons, introns, MDSs, and GSSs by 30-nt sRNAs. ( F ) Retention scores of GSSs and introns by 30-nt sRNAs. ( G ) Sequence logos of 29- to 33-nt sRNAs. ( H ) Base-wise matching frequencies of sRNAs. ( I ) Hexagonal binned plots showing sequence coverage of MAC chromosomes by sRNAs of diverse sizes. The red dashed line has a slope of 1.
Article Snippet: Before mRNA library preparation, polyadenylated RNA was isolated using magnetic beads coupling of oligo(dT) (catalog no. N401-01/02, VAHTS mRNA Capture Beads, Vazyme, China).
Techniques: Sequencing, RNA Sequencing