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. 2020 Apr 27;9:e56731. doi: 10.7554/eLife.56731

Figure 5. simr-1 mutants display reduced small RNAs mapping to mutator and piRNA-target genes.

(A) Table indicating the number of genes for which the total small RNA levels are either increased or reduced by at least two-fold for each indicated mutant. All genes also met the requirements of having at least 10 RPM in either mutant or control and a DESeq2 adjusted p-value of ≤0.05. (B) Box plots displaying total small RNAs levels mapping to genes from the indicated small RNA pathways in simr-1 mutants compared to wild-type animals raised at 20°C. Details regarding definition of small RNA target gene classes is provided in the Materials and Methods section. At least 10 RPM in wild-type or simr-1 mutant libraries was required to be included in the analysis. (C) Heat maps displaying total small RNAs levels targeting mutator-target genes or CSR-1-target genes in simr-1 mutants raised at 20°C, a single generation at 25°C, or two, seven, or 10 generations at 25°C relative to wild-type at the same temperature and generation. (D) Venn diagrams indicating overlap of genes depleted of total small RNAs by two-fold or more in mutants compared to wild-type. (E) Reads per total million reads mapping to piRNA and piRNA-target gene loci in wild-type and simr-1 mutants raised at either 20°C, or for a single generation at 25°C, indicate that piRNAs are not reduced in simr-1 mutants. Error bars indicate standard deviation of two replicate libraries. (F) Scatter plots display piRNA reads per million total reads in wild-type and simr-1 mutants (top) and wild-type and prg-1 mutants (bottom). Genes with two-fold increase in piRNA abundance and DESeq2 adjusted p-value≤0.05 are colored dark red and genes with two-fold reduction in piRNA abundance and DESeq2 adjusted p-value≤0.05 are colored light blue. The percentage of total piRNAs with an increase or reduction of greater than two-fold is indicated in the corners of the graph. n.s. denotes not significant and indicates a p-value>0.05 and **** indicates a p-value≤0.0001. See Supplementary file 8 for more details regarding statistical analysis.

Figure 5.

Figure 5—figure supplement 1. Small RNAs are reduced at many mutator, piRNA, and ERGO-1 target genes in simr-1 mutants at 25°C.

Figure 5—figure supplement 1.

(A) Box plot displaying total small RNAs levels targeting genes from the indicated small RNA pathways in simr-1 mutants relative to wild-type animals raised for a single generation at 25°C. Details regarding definition of small RNA target gene classes is provided in the Materials and Methods section. (B) Small RNA distribution across the RDE-1-target gene Y47H10A.5 in wild-type, simr-1 mutants, prg-1 mutants and mut-16 mutants at 20°C and wild-type, simr-1 mutants, and mut-16 mutants for a single generation at 25°C, shows that small RNAs targeting Y47H10A.5 are produced independently of simr-1 and prg-1. (C) Venn diagrams indicating overlap of genes depleted of total small RNAs by two-fold or more in simr-1, prg-1, and mut-16 mutants compared to wild-type. (D) Box plot displaying total small RNAs levels mapping to piRNA-target genes in simr-1 mutants raised at 20°C or for one, two, seven or 10 generations at 25°C compared to wild-type animals raised at the same temperature for the same number of generations. piRNA-target genes are defined as those depleted of total small RNAs by two-fold or more in a prg-1 mutant, therefore all piRNA-target genes will have a log2(fold change small RNA abundance) ≤ −1 in a prg-1 mutant and would fall below the red dotted line.