PMID- 25934266 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160204 LR - 20181113 IS - 1297-9716 (Electronic) IS - 0928-4249 (Print) IS - 0928-4249 (Linking) VI - 46 IP - 1 DP - 2015 May 1 TI - Evaluation of the capability of the PCV2 genome to encode miRNAs: lack of viral miRNA expression in an experimental infection. PG - 48 LID - 10.1186/s13567-015-0181-4 [doi] LID - 48 AB - Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is a ssDNA virus causing PCV2-systemic disease (PCV2-SD), one of the most important diseases in swine. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a new class of small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally. Viral miRNAs have recently been described and the number of viral miRNAs has been increasing in the past few years. In this study, small RNA libraries were constructed from two tissues of subclinically PCV2 infected pigs to explore if PCV2 can encode viral miRNAs. The deep sequencing data revealed that PCV2 does not express miRNAs in an in vivo subclinical infection. FAU - Nunez-Hernandez, Fernando AU - Nunez-Hernandez F AD - Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), UAB-IRTA, Campus de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain. fernando.nunez@cresa.uab.cat. FAU - Perez, Lester J AU - Perez LJ AD - Centro Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria (CENSA), La Habana, Cuba. lesterjosue@gmail.com. FAU - Vera, Gonzalo AU - Vera G AD - Departament de Genetica Animal, Centre de Recerca en AgriGenomica (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain. gonzalo.vera@cragenomica.es. FAU - Cordoba, Sarai AU - Cordoba S AD - Departament de Genetica Animal, Centre de Recerca en AgriGenomica (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain. Sarai.Cordoba@cragenomica.es. FAU - Segales, Joaquim AU - Segales J AD - Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), UAB-IRTA, Campus de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain. Joaquim.Segales@cresa.uab.cat. AD - Departament de Sanitat i Anatomia Animals, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain. Joaquim.Segales@cresa.uab.cat. FAU - Sanchez, Armand AU - Sanchez A AD - Departament de Genetica Animal, Centre de Recerca en AgriGenomica (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain. armand.sanchez@cragenomica.es. AD - Departament de Ciencia Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain. armand.sanchez@cragenomica.es. FAU - Nunez, Jose I AU - Nunez JI AD - Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), UAB-IRTA, Campus de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain. ignacio.nunez@cresa.uab.es. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150501 PL - England TA - Vet Res JT - Veterinary research JID - 9309551 RN - 0 (MicroRNAs) RN - 0 (RNA, Viral) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Asymptomatic Infections MH - Circoviridae Infections/*veterinary/virology MH - Circovirus/*genetics/metabolism MH - *Genome, Viral MH - MicroRNAs/*genetics MH - Polymerase Chain Reaction/veterinary MH - RNA, Viral/*genetics MH - Swine MH - Swine Diseases/*virology PMC - PMC4416260 EDAT- 2015/05/03 06:00 MHDA- 2016/02/05 06:00 PMCR- 2015/05/01 CRDT- 2015/05/03 06:00 PHST- 2014/12/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/04/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/05/03 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/05/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/02/05 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2015/05/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1186/s13567-015-0181-4 [pii] AID - 181 [pii] AID - 10.1186/s13567-015-0181-4 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Vet Res. 2015 May 1;46(1):48. doi: 10.1186/s13567-015-0181-4.