Detection of PIWI and piRNAs in the mitochondria of mammalian cancer cells
- Authors
- Kwon, ChangHyuk; Tak, Hyosun; Rho, Mina; Chang, Hae Ryung; Kim, Yon Hui; Kim, Kyung Tae; Balch, Curt; Lee, Eun Kyung; Nam, Seungyoon
- Issue Date
- Mar-2014
- Publisher
- ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
- Keywords
- Small RNA-Seq; Bioinformatics; Genomics; Sequence analysis; piRNA; Piwi; Mitochondria; Non-coding RNAs
- Citation
- BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS, v.446, no.1, pp.218 - 223
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
- Volume
- 446
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 218
- End Page
- 223
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/160553
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.02.112
- ISSN
- 0006-291X
- Abstract
- Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are 26-31 nt small noncoding RNAs that are processed from their longer precursor transcripts by Piwi proteins. Localization of Piwi and piRNA has been reported mostly in nucleus and cytoplasm of higher eukaryotes germ-line cells, where it is believed that known piRNA sequences are located in repeat regions of nuclear genome in germ-line cells. However, localization of PIWI and piRNA in mammalian somatic cell mitochondria yet remains largely unknown. We identified 29 piRNA sequence alignments from various regions of the human mitochondrial genome. Twelve out 29 piRNA sequences matched stem-loop fragment sequences of seven distinct tRNAs. We observed their actual expression in mitochondria subcellular fractions by inspecting mitochondrial-specific small RNA-Seq datasets. Of interest, the majority of the 29 piRNAs overlapped with multiple longer transcripts (expressed sequence tags) that are unique to the human mitochondrial genome. The presence of mature piRNAs in mitochondria was detected by qRT-PCR of mitochondrial subcellular RNAs. Further validation showed detection of Piwi by colocalization using anti-Piwil1 and mitochondria organelle-specific protein antibodies.
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