Figure 6.
Age alters NAD-capped RNAs. (A) Pathway analysis reveals the biological processes of NAD-capped RNAs are mainly involved in DNA replication, transcription, cell cycle, metabolism, immune system, response to stimulus, and ribosome biogenesis. Grey dashed line in the bar plot indicates the 0.05 q-value cutoff. (B) Violin plot showing the global dynamics of NAD-RNAs during aging (***P < 0.001 by Wilcox rank-sum test). Both the number of RNAs that contain NAD-capped form and the global extent of capping become decreased in aged (18-month) compared to young (2-month) mouse livers. (C) Scatter plot of NAD-capped RNAs in young and aged mouse livers. Common NAD-RNAs were shown in grey. Specific NAD-RNAs were found in both young (2-month, blue) and aged (18-month, yellow) mouse livers. (D) Network of functional pathways for genes that contains NAD-cap from young and aged mouse livers, respectively. Nodes represent pathways and edges represent shared genes between pathways. Nodes colored in blue are young-specific pathways (2-month) and those in khaki are aged-specific pathways (18-month), while those in both colors are shared by both young and aged animals.