I performed an RNA-seq experiment and observed an unusual size distribution of small RNAs (image attached). I was wondering if anyone has seen this before.
I used Ambion's mirVana small RNA kit to extract and enrich for the sRNA fraction (
They seem to match protein-coding sequences from my organism. Another clue: the most abundant reads at each length are reverse-complements of one another. For example, these are the two most abundant sequences at 30 nt:
GCGTTGTTAGGCTAGCGGTAAACTGGGGCC
GGCCCCAGTTTACCGCTAGCCTAACAACGC
These match two different hypothetical proteins in the sense (+) orientation; of course they also match each other in the antisense (-) direction.
You must already come out the answers,so let me guess.How about piRNA which is usually 26~32bp in length and the ping-pang pathway during piRNA biogenesis always leading to reverse-complement piRNA.