單細胞測序技術服務 單細胞全轉錄組測序 |
NGS測序技術服務 DRIP-seq |
基因芯片技術服務 Small RNA修飾芯片 m6A單堿基分辨率芯片 mRNA&lncRNA表觀轉錄組芯片 circRNA表觀轉錄組芯片 |
NGS測序技術服務 RNA m6A甲基化測序(MeRIP Seq) |
LC-MS mRNA堿基修飾檢測 tRNA堿基修飾檢測 |
PCR技術服務 MeRIP-PCR技術服務 m6A絕對定量RT-PCR技術服務 m6A單堿基位點PCR(MazF酶切法)技術服務 |
基因芯片技術服務 DNA甲基化芯片 DNA羥甲基化芯片 ChIP-chip |
NGS測序技術服務 DNA甲?;奏?5fc)修飾測序 DNA 5hmC 測序(化學法) DNA甲基化測序 DNA羥甲基化測序 染色質免疫共沉淀測序 |
PCR技術服務 MeDIP-qPCR hMeDIP-qPCR ChIP-qPCR |
蛋白相對定量 TMT標記定量技術 非標定量技術 |
蛋白修飾 TMT標記定量磷酸化 非標定量磷酸化 |
RNA/蛋白-蛋白相互作用 RNA-蛋白相互作用 蛋白-蛋白相互作用 |
相關產品
Arraystar SYBR? Green Real-time qPCR Master Mix相關服務
microRNA測序相關資源
Arraystar nrStar? Canonical Conserved miRNA PCR芯片(H)旨在通過qPCR技術檢測372個經典的、進化過程保守且具有顯著功能的mature miRNAs。此款PCR芯片能很好地消除miRNA前體、家族其他成員和isomiRs的干擾,同時還能夠準確地對低量樣本進行檢測,為科研人員提供一種準確、簡單和快捷的miRNA研究方案。
產品列表
產品名稱 | 貨號 | 規格 | 描述 |
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nrStar? Human Canonical Conserved miRNA PCR Array | AS-NR-005 | 384 well / plate | 包含372個經典的、進化過程保守且具有顯著功能的mature miRNAs |
nrStar? Human Canonical Conserved (Roche Light Cycler 480) | AS-NR-005-R | 384 well / plate |
優勢
? 專注于經典、進化保守且具有顯著功能的mature miRNAs
? 關注于具有更高表達水平的mature miRNAs而非star miRNAs
? 通過Two-tailed qPCR技術高效地消除前體、isomiRs及家族其他成員的干擾
? 詳細地注釋了miRNA啟動子、初級轉錄本及宿主基因等信息
? 方便快捷的預擴增步驟幫助準確地檢測低量樣本
為保證準確地檢測miRNA表達水平,消除前體、isomiRs及家族其他成員的影響,推薦使用rtStar? First-Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit (3’and 5’adaptor) (Cat# AS-FS-003)進行cDNA合成。針對低量樣本(100pg至200ng RNA),建議使用rtStar? PreAMP cDNA Synthesis Kit (Cat# AS-FS-006)進行cDNA合成及預擴增步驟。
嚴謹的目標miRNA篩選收錄流程
圖1.嚴謹地篩選經典、進化保守的miRNAs用于PCR芯片檢測。首先分析miRBase中所有pre-miRNA條目,挑選出經典pre-miRNA分子;其次將這些pre-miRNA進行系統發生學分析,找出進化過程中保守的miRNA;最后根據成熟miRNA的表達量,挑選出具有更高表達水平的mature miRNAs用于PCR芯片檢測。
專注于經典的miRNAs
miRBase收錄的miRNAs中,大約僅有1/3的人類miRNA基因、1/6的后生動物miRNA基因被認為是真實的miRNA基因(authentic miRNAs)[1]。經典miRNAs(Canonical miRNAs)擁有更為廣譜的表達,同時也能在不同樣本中具有差異性的表達(圖2)[2]。反之,大部分的非經典miRNAs(Noncanonical miRNAs)具有很差的保守性以及更低的表達水平,這預示著它們不具備顯著的基因表達調控能力[3]。故而,我們有理由在miRNA研究過程中關注于這些具有顯著功能的miRNA類群——經典miRNAs。
圖2. 經典miRNAs及mirtrons在不同樣本中的表達分布。
研究進化保守的miRNAs
與進化后期出現的miRNA基因相比,保守的miRNA(Conserved miRNAs)擁有更高的表達水平[3, 4]。在進化過程中新出現的miRNA基因往往對機體發揮中性亦或不利的調控功能,并且它們中的大部分在進化過程中慢慢地消失了[5]。然而保守的miRNAs的生物學功能則經歷了進化篩選,是生物體正常運轉所必需的。實際上保守的miRNAs能夠調控比非保守miRNAs更多的靶基因,并且這些靶基因中很大一部分行使轉錄因子功能(圖3)[6-8]。
圖3. 保守miRNAs(左)及非保守miRNAs(右)的靶基因功能統計分析。保守miRNAs主要調控轉錄因子的基因表達,而非保守miRNAs的靶基因功能則相對彌散。
聚焦于mature miRNAs而非star miRNAs
miRNA前體在Dicer酶的作用下產生雙鏈RNA,一條指導鏈和一條隨從鏈。當兩條鏈的表達水平相差2倍以上時,更高的成為mature miRNAs,而另一條則為star miRNAs;如若兩條鏈表達水平相當,則兩條鏈均稱為mature miRNAs[1]。再者,Star miRNAs發揮更為微弱的生物學功能。進化分析發現,star miRNAs擁有比mature miRNAs更高的堿基替代率,這種現象在seed區域顯得更為明顯(>46倍的差異)(圖4)。
圖4. Mature miRNAs和Star miRNAs的堿基替代率。n為所有堿基替代次數統計。
可區分前體、isomiRs及family members的two-tailed qPCR技術
由于miRNA有長度短小、isomiRs的存在、家族成員間高度同源以及特定樣品中低表達豐度等特點,使得miRNA的表達檢測顯得更為困難。雖然qPCR作為miRNA表達檢測中的“金標準”,然而傳統的qPCR方法也不能夠解決miRNA檢測中的困難。這是由于qPCR方法依賴于引物3’末端的差異,然而對于5’端的差異則愛莫能助[9, 10]。而傳統miRNA qPCR檢測方法僅僅依賴一條上游引物進行區分,下游多為通用引物。而生命體內有眾多RNAs與miRNAs在5’端存在單堿基差異,例如isomiRs以及同一家族其他miRNA成員。再者Seed序列位于5’區域,是miRNA識別靶基因的關鍵所在。Arraystar開發的two-tailed qPCR技術通過延伸miRNA兩端,使得區分前體、isomiRs以及家族其他成員更為容易。再者,該技術能夠方便快捷地進行低量樣本(低至100pg RNA)的預擴增操作(圖5)。
圖5. 利用Two-tailed qPCR技術及Poly-A qPCR技術分別對人工合成的miR-515家族miRNAs進行交叉檢測。
針對目標miRNAs進行全面注釋
Annotation | Implications |
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Tissue-specific | The miRNAs can have the tissue-specific functions in the corresponding tissue. |
Cell-specific | Cell-type specific miRNAs tend to target proteins at crucial bottleneck positions in the corresponding regulatory networks. |
Detection in Serum/plasma | miRNAs in serum/plasma having good potentials in biomarker applications. |
Promoter name |
Information about the miRNA biogenesis. Also, many miRNA host genes are associated with the target gene activity either synergistically or antagonistically. |
Promoter Annotation | |
Primary miRNA | |
Host Gene | |
Intronic/intergenic | |
Seed family | miRNAs in the same seed family are evolutionarily closer and have at least partially redundant functions. |
Clustered miRNAs | miRNAs clustered in the genome generally have a similar expression level. They may regulate overlapping sets of target genes through convergent evolution. |
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適用的qPCR儀:
ABI ViiA? 7
ABI 7500 & ABI 7500 FAST
ABI 7900HT
ABI QuantStudio? 6 Flex Real-Time PCR system
ABI QuantStudio? 7 Flex Real-Time PCR system
ABI QuantStudio? 12K Flex Real-Time PCR System
Bio-Rad CFX384
Bio-Rad iCycler & iQ Real-Time PCR Systems
Eppendorf Realplex
QIAGEN Rotor Gene Q 100
Roche LightCycler 480
Stratagene Mx3000
Roche LightCycler 480
Human Canonical Conserved miRNA列表 (372 miRNAs) |
非常高度進化保守miRs (6): miR-31-5p, miR-96-5p, miR-182-5p, miR-184, miR-210-3p, miR-375-3p 高度進化保守miRs (162): let-7a-5p, let-7b-5p, let-7c-5p, let-7d-5p, let-7e-5p, let-7f-5p, let-7g-5p, let-7i-5p, miR-1-3p, miR-7-5p, miR-9-5p, miR-10a-5p, miR-10b-5p, miR-15a-5p, miR-15b-5p, miR-16-5p, miR-17-5p, miR-18a-5p, miR-18b-5p, miR-19a-3p, miR-19b-3p, miR-20a-5p, miR-20b-5p, miR-21-5p, miR-22-3p, miR-23a-3p, miR-23b-3p, miR-24-3p, miR-25-3p, miR-26a-5p, miR-26b-5p, miR-27a-3p, miR-27b-3p, miR-29a-3p, miR-29b-3p, miR-29c-3p, miR-30a-5p, miR-30b-5p, miR-30c-5p, miR-30d-5p, miR-30e-5p, miR-32-5p, miR-33a-5p, miR-33b-5p, miR-34a-5p, miR-34b-5p, miR-34c-5p, miR-92a-3p, miR-92b-3p, miR-93-5p, miR-98-5p, miR-99a-5p, miR-99b-5p, miR-100-5p, miR-101-3p, miR-103a-3p, miR-106a-5p, miR-106b-3p, miR-106b-5p, miR-107, miR-122-5p, miR-125a-5p, miR-125b-5p, miR-126-3p, miR-126-5p, miR-128-3p, miR-129-5p, miR-130a-3p, miR-130b-3p, miR-132-3p, miR-133a-3p, miR-133b, miR-135a-5p, miR-135b-5p, miR-137-3p, miR-138-5p, miR-139-5p, miR-140-3p, miR-141-3p, miR-142-3p, miR-142-5p, miR-143-3p, miR-144-5p, miR-145-5p, miR-146a-5p, miR-146b-5p, miR-147b-3p, miR-148a-3p, miR-148b-3p, miR-150-5p, miR-152-3p, miR-153-3p, miR-155-5p, miR-181a-5p, miR-181b-5p, miR-181c-5p, miR-181d-5p, miR-183-5p, miR-187-3p, miR-190a-5p, miR-191-5p, miR-192-5p, miR-193a-5p, miR-193b-3p, miR-193b-5p, miR-194-5p, miR-195-5p, miR-196a-5p, miR-196b-5p, miR-199a/b-3p, miR-200a-3p, miR-200b-3p, miR-200c-3p, miR-202-3p, miR-202-5p, miR-203a-3p, miR-204-5p, miR-205-5p, miR-206, miR-208a-3p, miR-208b-3p, miR-211-5p, miR-212-5p, miR-214-3p, miR-215-5p, miR-216b-5p, miR-217-5p, miR-218-5p, miR-219a-2-3p, miR-219a-5p, miR-221-3p, miR-222-3p, miR-223-3p, miR-301a-3p, miR-301b-3p, miR-302a-3p, miR-302b-3p, miR-302c-3p, miR-302d-3p, miR-338-3p, miR-363-3p, miR-365a-3p, miR-383-5p, miR-424-5p, miR-425-5p, miR-429, miR-449a, miR-449b-5p, miR-449c-5p, miR-451a, miR-454-3p, miR-455-3p, miR-455-5p, miR-489-3p, miR-490-3p, miR-497-5p, miR-499a-5p, miR-503-5p, miR-551a, miR-551b-3p, miR-802, miR-875-5p 進化保守miRs (204): miR-28-3p, miR-105-5p, miR-127-3p, miR-134-5p, miR-136-3p, miR-149-5p, miR-151a-3p, miR-151a-5p, miR-154-3p, miR-154-5p, miR-185-5p, miR-186-5p, miR-188-5p, miR-197-3p, miR-224-5p, miR-296-5p, miR-299-3p, miR-299-5p, miR-323a-3p, miR-323b-3p, miR-324-5p, miR-326, miR-329-3p, miR-330-3p, miR-331-3p, miR-335-5p, miR-337-3p, miR-339-3p, miR-339-5p, miR-340-5p, miR-342-3p, miR-345-5p, miR-346, miR-361-3p, miR-361-5p, miR-362-5p, miR-369-3p, miR-369-5p, miR-370-3p, miR-371a-5p, miR-372-3p, miR-373-3p, miR-374a-3p, miR-374a-5p, miR-374b-5p, miR-376a-3p, miR-376b-3p, miR-376c-3p, miR-377-3p, miR-377-5p, miR-378a-3p, miR-379-5p, miR-380-3p, miR-380-5p, miR-381-3p, miR-382-3p, miR-382-5p, miR-409-3p, miR-410-3p, miR-411-5p, miR-412-5p, miR-421, miR-423-3p, miR-423-5p, miR-431-5p, miR-432-5p, miR-433-3p, miR-448, miR-450a-5p, miR-450b-5p, miR-452-5p, miR-483-5p, miR-485-5p, miR-486-5p, miR-487a-5p, miR-487b-3p, miR-488-3p, miR-488-5p, miR-491-5p, miR-493-5p, miR-494-3p, miR-495-3p, miR-496, miR-498-5p, miR-500a-3p, miR-500b-5p, miR-501-3p, miR-502-3p, miR-504-5p, miR-506-3p, miR-506-5p, miR-507, miR-508-3p, miR-510-5p, miR-511-3p, miR-511-5p, miR-513b-5p, miR-514a-3p, miR-514b-5p, miR-516b-5p, miR-518b, miR-518c-3p, miR-518d-5p, miR-518f-3p, miR-519c-3p, miR-520a-3p, miR-520d-3p, miR-522-3p, miR-523-3p, miR-524-3p, miR-524-5p, miR-525-3p, miR-525-5p, miR-532-5p, miR-539-3p, miR-541-5p, miR-542-3p, miR-543, miR-545-5p, miR-574-3p, miR-576-5p, miR-577, miR-579-5p, miR-582-3p, miR-584-5p, miR-589-5p, miR-590-3p, miR-597-3p, miR-598-3p, miR-605-3p, miR-624-5p, miR-628-5p, miR-651-5p, miR-652-3p, miR-654-3p, miR-656-3p, miR-660-5p, miR-671-3p, miR-671-5p, miR-675-3p, miR-676-3p, miR-708-5p, miR-744-5p, miR-758-3p, miR-760, miR-769-5p, miR-770-5p, miR-873-3p, miR-873-5p, miR-874-3p, miR-876-3p, miR-885-5p, miR-887-3p, miR-887-5p, miR-888-5p, miR-889-3p, miR-890, miR-892a, miR-892b, miR-892c-3p, miR-934, miR-935, miR-944, miR-1180-3p, miR-1185-1-3p, miR-1185-2-3p, miR-1185-5p, miR-1197, miR-1247-5p, miR-1249-3p, miR-1251-5p, miR-1264, miR-1271-5p, miR-1277-5p, miR-1283, miR-1298-5p, miR-1301-3p, miR-1307-3p, miR-1307-5p, miR-1323, miR-1343-3p, miR-1911-5p, miR-1912-3p, miR-2114-3p, miR-2114-5p, miR-2355-3p, miR-2681-3p, miR-2681-5p, miR-3059-5p, miR-3085-3p, miR-3140-3p, miR-3145-3p, miR-3146, miR-3173-5p, miR-3200-3p, miR-3613-5p, miR-3617-5p, miR-3934-5p, miR-4524a-3p, miR-4677-3p, miR-4766-3p, miR-4766-5p, miR-6529-5p, miR-9851-3p |