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ArticleGenome biology and evolution2018

An Evolutionary Landscape of A-to-I RNA Editome across Metazoan Species.

Li-Yuan Hung, Yen-Ju Chen, Te-Lun Mai, Chia-Ying Chen, Min-Yu Yang, Tai-Wei Chiang, Yi-Da Wang, Trees-Juen Chuang

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Article in Genome biology and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Li-Yuan HungGenomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yen-Ju ChenGenomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Te-Lun MaiGenomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Chia-Ying ChenGenomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Min-Yu YangGenomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Tai-Wei ChiangGenomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yi-Da WangGenomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Trees-Juen ChuangGenomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica · TWAcademia Sinica · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing is widespread across the kingdom Metazoa. However, for the lack of comprehensive analysis in nonmodel animals, the evolutionary history of A-to-I editing remains largely unexplored. Here, we detect high-confidence editing sites using clustering and conservation strategies based on RNA sequencing data alone, without using single-nucleotide polymorphism information or genome sequencing data from the same sample. We thereby unveil the first evolutionary landscape of A-to-I editing maps across 20 metazoan species (from worm to human), providing unprecedented evidence on how the editing mechanism gradually expands its territory and increases its influence along the history of evolution. Our result revealed that highly clustered and conserved editing sites tended to have a higher editing level and a higher magnitude of the ADAR motif. The ratio of the frequencies of nonsynonymous editing to that of synonymous editing remarkably increased with increasing the conservation level of A-to-I editing. These results thus suggest potentially functional benefit of highly clustered and conserved editing sites. In addition, spatiotemporal dynamics analyses reveal a conserved enrichment of editing and ADAR expression in the central nervous system throughout more than 300 Myr of divergent evolution in complex animals and the comparability of editing patterns between invertebrates and between vertebrates during development. This study provides evolutionary and dynamic aspects of A-to-I editome across metazoan species, expanding this important but understudied class of nongenomically encoded events for comprehensive characterization.

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RNA EditingAdenosineAnimalsCluster AnalysisEvolution, MolecularHumansInosineRNASequence Analysis, RNAAdenosineInosineRNAADARADAR motifA-to-I RNA editingdynamic editomeevolution

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PMID29294013
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