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ArticleMolecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.)2026

Dissecting the small RNA code of inflammatory bowel disease.

Hawkeye Bufkin Plank, Xudong Zhang, Hukam C Rawal, Jiancheng Yu, Changcheng Zhou, Qi Chen, Tong Zhou

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Hawkeye Bufkin PlankDepartment of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, 89557, USA.
Xudong ZhangMolecular Medicine Program, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA.
Hukam C RawalDepartment of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, 89557, USA.
Jiancheng YuDepartment of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA.
Changcheng ZhouDivision of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
Qi ChenMolecular Medicine Program, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA.
Tong ZhouDepartment of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, 89557, USA. tongz@med.unr.edu.

Funding

Sperm tsRNAs/rsRNAs and their RNA modifications in diet-induced epigenetic inheritanceR01HD092431 · NICHD · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI Qi Chen, David S Milstone · 2017 to 2026
$3.5M
Role of PXR in EDC-induced cardiovascular diseaseR35ES035015 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI Changcheng Zhou · 2023 to 2026
$3.4M
Role of PXR in drug-elicited cardiovascular diseaseR01HL167206 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI Hong Chen, Changcheng Zhou · 2023 to 2026
$2.8M
Decoding the signature of sperm RNA & RNA modification of environmental stressors on the intergenerational transmission of metabolic phenotypesR01ES032024 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI CHEN, QI, ZHOU, TONG · 2020 to 2024
$2.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL167206NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD092431NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES032024NIEHS NIH HHS R35 ES035015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEmerging evidence demonstrates that noncanonical small noncoding RNAs (sncRNAs), including tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs), rRNA-derived small RNAs (rsRNAs), and Y RNA-derived small RNAs (ysRNAs), are highly abundant in various tissues and cell types and play critical roles in numerous biological processes. These noncanonical sncRNAs are also present in bodily fluids with great potential as disease biomarkers.

methodsWe leveraged an existing sncRNA dataset to characterize the profiles of tsRNAs, rsRNAs, and ysRNAs in the peripheral blood of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)—comprising both ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD)—alongside healthy controls (HCs) and symptomatic controls (SCs) within a Swedish cohort (n = 205).

resultsOur analysis revealed an overall similar dysregulation pattern of noncanonical sncRNAs among the UC, CD, and SC samples compared to HCs. Our co-expression analysis between sncRNAs and genes suggests elevated oxidative stress as a potential universal regulator of tsRNA/rsRNA/ysRNA biogenesis in IBD. Further, we developed a molecular signature composed of 21 tsRNA/rsRNA/ysRNA families, which clearly distinguished IBD patients from HCs in the Swedish cohort. However, this signature showed a diminished signal in a German cohort (n = 242), in which the IBD patients were treatment-exposed. As a comparison, a 25-miRNA based signature was also developed, which also showed a fairly good classification power between HCs and patients in the Swedish cohort, but was less robust reflected by a stronger baseline divergence between the Swedish and German cohorts.

conclusionsOur findings suggest the potential of tsRNA/rsRNA/ysRNA profiles as biomarkers for IBD and provide clues for further functional and mechanistic investigations.

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Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesRNA, Small UntranslatedBiomarkersColitis, UlcerativeCrohn DiseaseFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationHumansMaleMicroRNAsOxidative StressBiomarkersMicroRNAsRNA, Small UntranslatedInflammatory bowel diseaseOxidative stressrsRNAtsRNAysRNA

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