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Current Bioinformatics

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ISSN (Print): 1574-8936
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Research Article

A Computational Approach to Identify Novel Potential Precursor miRNAs and their Targets from Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells

Author(s): Chitra Jeyaram, Manuel Philip, Rajadurai Chinnasamy Perumal, Jubina Benny, Jayasankar Madusoodhanan Jayakumari and Maniramakrishnan Santhana Ramasamy *

Volume 14, Issue 1, 2019

Page: [24 - 32] Pages: 9

DOI: 10.2174/1574893613666180413150351

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Abstract

Background: Recent advances in next-generation sequencing technology allow highthroughput RNA-Sequencing to be widely applied in studying coding and non-coding RNA profiling in cells. RNA-Seq data usually contains functional transcriptomic and other small and larger non-coding (nc) RNA sequences.

Objective: MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a small nc-RNA act as epigenetic markers and the expression of their target genes and pathways that regulate Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), a primary malignancy of the liver. The unreported potential novel miRNAs targeting HCC pathways can be identified from the sequenced data.

Methods: In this study, we performed a computational identification of novel putative miRNAs and their targets from publicly available high-throughput sequencing Fastq data of human HCC cells HepG2, NorHep and SKHep1, retrieved from NCBI-SRA.

Results: Totally, 572 unique known precursor miRNAs and 1062 unique novel miRNAs were identified from HepG2, Nor and SKHep1 HCC cell lines. Interestingly, 140 novel miRNAs were predicted to be extensively involved in targeting genes of HCC related pathways such as apoptosis, cell signaling, cell division, cell-cycle arrest, GPCR, MAPK cascade, TOR signaling, TNFSF11 signaling and liver development.

Conclusion: The predicted novel miRNAs reported in the paper might have a vital role in regulating the molecular mechanism of HCC and thus, further studies on these miRNAs will provide significant clues for researchers into the complex biological process of liver cancer.

Keywords: Hepatocellular Carcinoma, microRNA, high-throughput sequencing, targets, pathways, computational.

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