Michele Bortolomeazzi

Mr. Michele Bortolomeazzi


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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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Enrico GaffoEnrico Gaffo
Enrico Gaffo
MBMichele Bortolomeazzi
Michele Bortolomeazzi
ABAndrea Bisognin
Andrea Bisognin
PBPiero Di Battista
Piero Di Battista
FLFederica Lovisa
Federica Lovisa
Stefania BortoluzziStefania Bortoluzzi
Stefania Bortoluzzi
MicroRNA-offset RNAs (moRNAs) are microRNA-like small RNAs generated by microRNA precursors. To date, little is known about moRNAs and bioinformatics tools to inspect their expression are still missing. We developed miR&moRe2, the first bioinformatics method to consistently characterize microRNAs, moRNAs, and their isoforms from small RNA sequencing data. To illustrate miR&moRe2 discovery power, we applied it to several published datasets. MoRNAs identified by miR&moRe2 were in agreement with previous research findings. Moreover, we observed that moRNAs and new microRNAs predicted by miR&moRe2 were downregulated upon the silencing of the microRNA-biogenesis pathway. Further, in a sizeable dataset of human blood cell populations, tens of novel miRNAs and moRNAs were discovered, some of them with significantly varied expression levels among the cell types. Results demonstrate that miR&moRe2 is a valid tool for a comprehensive study of small RNAs generated from microRNA precursors and could help to investigate their biogenesis and function.