编号
040025301
推送时间
20200824
研究领域
森林培育
年份
2020
类型
期刊
语种
英语
标题
pssRNAit-a web server for designing effective and specific plant siRNAs with genome-wide off-target assessment
来源期刊 Nature Plants
期
第253期
发表时间
20200710
关键词
Bioinformatics;
plant RNAi;
siRNA efficacy;
off-target gene silencing;
VIGS;
syntasiRNA;
摘要
We report an advanced web server named pssRNAit (plant specific small non-coding RNAi tool) that can be used to design a pool of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) for highly effective, specific, and non-toxic gene silencing in plants. In developing this tool, we integrated the transcript dataset of plants, several rules governing gene silencing, and a series of computational models of the biological mechanism of the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway. The designed pool of siRNAs can be used to construct a long double-stranded RNA (long-dsRNA) and expressed through virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) or synthetic trans-acting siRNA (syn-tasiRNA) vectors for gene silencing. We demonstrated the performance of pssRNAit by designing and expressing the VIGS constructs to silence Phytoene desaturase (PDS) or a ribosomal protein-encoding gene, RPL10 (QM), in Nicotiana benthamiana. We analyzed the expression levels of predicted intended target and off-target genes using RT-qPCR. We further conducted an RNA-seq-based transcriptome analysis to assess genome-wide off-target gene silencing triggered by the fragments that were designed by pssRNAit, targeting different homologous regions of the PDS gene. Our analyses confirmed the high accuracy of siRNA constructs designed using pssRNAit. The pssRNAit server, freely available at https://plantgrn.noble.org/pssRNAit/, supports the design of highly effective and specific RNAi, VIGS, or syn-tasiRNA constructs for high-throughput functional genomics and trait improvement in more than 160 plant species.
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孙小满
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