Analysis of the miR482 Gene Family in Plants
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Data Preparation of miR482 Family Members for Bioinformatic Analysis
2.2. Molecular Characterization of miR482 Family Members
2.3. Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Estimation
2.4. Expression Profiling of miR482
2.5. Target Gene Prediction and GO Enrichment Analysis
2.6. CeRNA Network Construction
3. Results
3.1. Statistical Analysis of Members of the miR482 Family in Plants
3.2. Molecular Characterization of the Mature and Precursor Sequences of the miR482 Family
3.3. Phylogenetic Analysis of the miR482 Family in Plants
3.4. Tissue-Specific Expression Analysis of miR482
3.5. Prediction and Function Annotation of the Targets
3.6. CeRNA Network of miR482
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Families | Species | Name | Number of 5′ End | Number of 3′ End | Evidence |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liliaceae | Asparagus officinalis | aof-miR482 | 0 | 3 | 3 (experimental) |
Myrtaceae | Aquilegia caerulea | aqc-miR482 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Rutaceae | C. sinensis | csi-miR482 | 7 | 7 | 14 (experimental) |
Myrtaceae | Eugenia uniflora | eun-miR482 | 3 | 3 | 6 (experimental) |
Rosaceae | F. vesca | fve-miR482 | 0 | 4 | 4 (experimental) |
Malvaceae | Gossypium hirsutum | ghr-miR482 | 0 | 2 | 2 (experimental) |
Fabaceae | G. max | gma-miR482 | 4 | 5 | 9 (experimental) |
Malvaceae | Gossypium raimondii | gra-miR482 | 0 | 3 | 3 (experimental) |
Fabaceae | Glycine soja | gso-miR482 | 0 | 2 | 2 (experimental) |
Euphorbiaceae | Hevea brasiliensis | hbr-miR482 | 2 | 0 | 2 (experimental) |
Rosaceae | Malus domestica | mdm-miR482 | 1 | 4 | 4 (experimental) |
Euphorbiaceae | M. esculenta | mes-miR482 | 0 | 5 | 4 (experimental) |
Fabaceae | M. truncatula | mtr-miR482 | 1 | 1 | 2 (experimental) |
Solanaceae | N. tabacum | nta-miR482 | 1 | 4 | 3 (experimental) |
Pinaceae | P. abies | pab-miR482 | 1 | 24 | 25 (experimental) |
Pinaceae | Pinus densata | pde-miR482 | 0 | 4 | 4 (experimental) |
Araliaceae | Panax ginseng | pgi-miR482 | 1 | 1 | 2 (experimental) |
Rosaceae | P. persica | ppe-miR482 | 4 | 6 | 10 (experimental) |
Pinaceae | Pinus taeda | pta-miR482 | 0 | 4 | 4 (by similarity) |
Salicaceae | P. trichocarpa | ptc-miR482 | 3 | 5 | 8 (experimental) |
Fabaceae | P. vulgaris | pvu-miR482 | 1 | 1 | 2 (experimental) |
Solanaceae | S. lycopersicum | sly-miR482 | 2 | 5 | 5 (experimental) |
Solanaceae | Solanum tuberosum | stu-miR482 | 4 | 5 | 8 (experimental) |
Fabaceae | V. unguiculata | vun-miR482 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Vitaceae | V. vinifera | vvi-miR482 | 0 | 1 | 1 (experimental) |
Poaceae | Z. mays | zma-miR482 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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Kuang, W.; Qin, D.; Huang, Y.; Liu, Y.; Cao, X.; Xu, M. Analysis of the miR482 Gene Family in Plants. Genes 2024, 15, 1043. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15081043
Kuang W, Qin D, Huang Y, Liu Y, Cao X, Xu M. Analysis of the miR482 Gene Family in Plants. Genes. 2024; 15(8):1043. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15081043
Chicago/Turabian StyleKuang, Wei, Danfeng Qin, Ying Huang, Yihua Liu, Xue Cao, and Meng Xu. 2024. "Analysis of the miR482 Gene Family in Plants" Genes 15, no. 8: 1043. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15081043