Exploration of Alternative Splicing (AS) Events in MDV-Infected Chicken Spleens

Overview

Journal Genes (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Date 2021 Dec 24

PMID 34946806

Citations 1

Authors

Lulu Wang

Gang Zheng

Yiming Yuan

Ziyi Wang

Changjun Liu

Hao Zhang

Ling Lian

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Abstract

Marek's disease (MD) was an immunosuppression disease induced by Marek's disease virus (MDV). MD caused huge economic loss to the global poultry industry, but it also provided an ideal model for studying diseases induced by the oncogenic virus. Alternative splicing (AS) simultaneously produced different isoform transcripts, which are involved in various diseases and individual development. To investigate AS events in MD, RNA-Seq was performed in tumorous spleens (TS), spleens from the survivors (SS) without any lesion after MDV infection, and non-infected chicken spleens (NS). In this study, 32,703 and 25,217 AS events were identified in TS and SS groups with NS group as the control group, and 1198, 1204, and 348 differently expressed (DE) AS events (-value < 0.05 and FDR < 0.05) were identified in TS vs. NS, TS vs. SS, SS vs. NS, respectively. Additionally, Function enrichment analysis showed that ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis, p53 signaling pathway, and phosphatidylinositol signaling system were significantly enriched (-value < 0.05). Small structural variations including SNP and indel were analyzed based on RNA-Seq data, and it showed that the TS group possessed more variants on the splice site region than those in SS and NS groups, which might cause more AS events in the TS group. Combined with previous circRNA data, we found that 287 genes could produce both circular and linear RNAs, which suggested these genes were more active in MD lymphoma transformation. This study has expanded the understanding of the MDV infection process and provided new insights for further analysis of resistance/susceptibility mechanisms.

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