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    tRNA'lardan kökenlenen küçük RNA fragmanlarının etkileştiği komplekslerin tanımlanması ve gelişim üzerine etkilerinin araştırılması
    (TÜBİTAK - Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, 2014) Akgül, Bünyamin; Nalbant Aldanmaz, Ayten
    Bir dizi genom projesinin tamamlanması ve sekanslama teknolojisinin gelişmesine paralel olarak ökaryotik bir hücrede bulunan transkriptomu algılayışımız oldukça değişmiştir. 15-26 nükleotit uzunluğunda küçük RNA’ları sekanslamaya imkan veren bu teknoloji sayesinde daha önce “çöp DNA” olarak ileri sürülen genomik bölgelerden endojen siRNA’ların üretildiği tespit edilmiştir. Detaylı analizler, ökaryotik hücrelerde yapısal olarak bilinen mRNA, rRNA, snoRNA ve tRNA’lardan da küçük RNA’ların üretildiğini göstermiştir. Drozofila embriyonik gelişiminin model olarak kullanıldığı bu projede drozofila embriyo ve S2 hücre hattı sitozolik ekstraktları translasyonal statülerine göre fraksiyonlara ayrılarak tRNA’lardan kökenlenen fragmanların etkileştikleri komplekslerin tanımlanması amaçlanmıştır. Aşırı ifade ve in situ hibridizasyon yöntemleri kullanılarak ilgili tRNA fragmanlarının hücre içi konumları belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca, embriyolara mikroenjeksiyon ve mutant sineklerde fragman analizleri yapılarak tRNA fragmanlarının gelişim üzerine etkileri incelenmiştir.
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    Knockdown of Death Receptor 5 Antisense Long Noncoding Rna and Cisplatin Treatment Modulate Similar Macromolecular and Metabolic Changes in Hela Cells
    (TÜBİTAK - Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, 2022) Gürer, Dilek Cansu; Erdoğan Vatansever, İpek; Ceylan, Çağatay; Akgül, Bünyamin
    Background/aim: Despite great progress in complex gene regulatory mechanisms in the dynamic tumor microenvironment, the potential contribution of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) to cancer cell metabolism is poorly understood. Death receptor 5 antisense (DR5-AS) is a cisplatin inducible lncRNA whose knockdown modulates cell morphology. However, its effect on cell metabolism is unknown. The aim of this study is to examine metabolic changes modulated by cisplatin and DR5-AS lncRNA in HeLa cells. Materials and methods: We used cisplatin as a universal cancer therapeutic drug to modulate metabolic changes in HeLa cervix cancer cells. We then examined the extent of metabolic changes by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). We also performed transcriptomics analyses by generating new RNA-seq data with total RNAs isolated from cisplatin-treated HeLa cells. Then, we compared cisplatin-mediated transcriptomics and macromolecular changes with those mediated by DR5-AS knockdown. Results: Cisplatin treatment caused changes in the unsaturated fatty acid and lipid-to-protein ratios and the glycogen content. These observations in altered cellular metabolism were supported by transcriptomics analyses. FTIR spectroscopy analyses have revealed that DR5-AS knockdown causes a 20.9% elevation in the lipid/protein ratio and a 76.6% decrease in lipid peroxidation. Furthermore, we detected a 3.42% increase in the chain length of the aliphatic lipids, a higher content of RNA, and a lower amount of glycogen indicating relatively lower metabolic activity in the DR5-AS knockdown HeLa cells. Interestingly, we observed a similar gene expression pattern under cisplatin treatment and DR5-AS knockdown HeLa cells. Conclusion: These results suggest that DR5-AS lncRNA appears to account for a fraction of cisplatin-mediated macromolecular ametabolic changes in HeLa cervix cancer cells.
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    Cytoplasmically Localized Trna-Derived Fragments Inhibit Translation in Drosophila S2 Cells
    (TÜBİTAK - Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, 2022) Hamid, Syed Muhammad; Akgül, Bünyamin
    Transfer ribonucleic acids (tRNAs) serve not only as amino acid carriers during translation but also as a template for the biogenesis of short fragments that can regulate gene expression. Despite recent progress in the function of tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs), their intracellular localization, protein partners, and role in regulating translation are not well understood. We used synthetic tRFs to investigate their localization and function in Drosophila S2 cells. Under our experimental setting, all synthetic tRFs tested were localized at distinct sites within the cytoplasm in a similar manner in Drosophila S2 cells. Cytoplasmically-localized tRFs were positioned in close proximity to GW182 and XRN1 proteins. Functionally, tRFs, which slightly suppressed proliferation in S2 cells, inhibited translation without any major shift in the polysome profile. These results suggest that 5???-tRFs are cytoplasmically-localized and regulate gene expression through inhibition of translation in Drosophila.