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Energy profile and secondary structure impact shRNA efficacy
The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08)
The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08)
RNA interference (RNAi) is a cellular mechanism in which a short/small double stranded RNA induces the degradation of its sequence specific target mRNA, leading to specific gene silencing. Since its discovery, RNAi has become a powerful biological technique for gene function studies and drug discovery. The very first requirement of applying RNAi is to design functional small interfering RNA (siRNA) that can uniquely induce the degradation of the targeted mRNA. It has been shown that many functional synthetic siRNAs share some common characteristics, such as GC content limitation and free energy preferences at both terminals, etc.
Our three-phase algorithm was developed to design siRNA on a whole-genome scale based on those identified characteristics of functional siRNA. When this algorithm was applied to design short hairpin RNA (shRNA), the validated success rate of shRNAs was over 70%, which was almost double the rate reported for TRC library. This indicates that the designs of siRNA and shRNA may share the same concerns. Further analysis of the shRNA dataset of 444 designs reveals that the high free energy states of the two terminals have the largest positive impact on the shRNA efficacy. Enforcing these energy characteristics of both terminals can further improve the shRNA design success rate to 83.1%. We also found that functional shRNAs have less probability for their 3' terminals to be involved in mRNA secondary structure formation.
Functional shRNAs prefer high free energy states at both terminals. High free energy states of the two terminals were found to be the largest positive impact factor on shRNA efficacy. In addition, the accessibility of the 3' terminal is another key factor to shRNA efficacy.
RNA interference (RNAi) is a cellular mechanism in which a short/small double stranded RNA induces the degradation of its sequence specific target mRNA, leading to specific gene silencing. Since its discovery, RNAi has become a powerful biological technique for gene function studies and drug discovery
Another challenge is that most existing datasets are usually about chemically synthesized siRNA sequences. Currently there are two approaches to induce siRNA sequences into cells. One is to transfect chemically synthesized siRNA sequences into cells. Though this approach is more frequently used, the drawback is that it can not offer long-term gene suppression and some mammalian cell types are resistant to the transfection methods
As suggested by Matveeva et al
This article further extends our analysis on the available shRNA dataset generated by SABiosciences. Although this dataset is biased as it is specifically generated by our three-phase algorithm, the analysis reveals useful information that may help confirm the effectiveness of the rules used in the algorithm, modify the existing rules or rearrange them for better prediction and identify new rules.
Results and discussion
The two sets of biological experiments completely tested 444 shRNAs targeting 125 human genes. Of the 444 shRNAs, 316 are found to be functional (71.2%). Considering the fact that variations exist in the experimentally measured suppression efficacy, we decided to remove some shRNAs whose efficacy are in the range near 70% in hope of ensuring the validity of the dataset. The two ranges for removal are 60–75% and 55–80%. This means we exclude shRNAs whose efficacy is between 60–75% and 55–80% respectively. With the 60–75% removal range, there are 351 shRNAs for analysis in which 268 are considered functional (efficacy >= 75%). However, with the 55–80% range, there are only 289 shRNA sequences for analysis in which 221 shRNAs are considered functional (efficacy >= 80%).
By default, the three-phase algorithm sets a selection cutoff such that only shRNAs which score at least 7 points will be selected for biological experiments. However, former experiments showed that there were a few genes for which our algorithm failed to design enough shRNAs
To obtain 7 points for a shRNA, it must pass multiple phase II filters. What filters/rules contribute to the statistical bias of the 7-points-cutoff? After analyzing all the design rules, we found that the shRNAs scoring no less than 7 are perfectly correlated with the f-dga filter (R = 1.0). The f-dga filter in phase II is defined such that any shRNA whose free energy (ΔG) of the 5-mer at 3' terminal is no less than -3.2 would gain 1 point. The free energy of the 5-mer at 3' terminal, ΔGas-5 (Subscript as in ΔGas-5 represents the 3' terminal while ss represents the 5' terminal, -5 means the first 5 nucleotides), shows some bias between functional and nonfunctional shRNAs. Functional shRNAs prefer the ΔGas-5 to be no less than -3.2 while disfavoring ΔGas-5 being less than -3.2 (p = 0.0046). This shows that the statistical bias behind the 7-points-cutoff is due to the ΔGas-5 values of shRNAs, and suggests that having ΔGas-5 larger than -3.2 increases the probability obtaining functional shRNAs at the expense of missing some functional ones (shown in Table
Table 1
Higher ΔGas-5 increases the probability that shRNAs are functional.
shRNA ΔGas-5
Functional Rate
>= -3.2
81.6% (155/190)
Not functional
66.7% (66/99)
Not functional
The free energy of 3' terminal is computed with the first 5 terminal base pairs as suggested by Ui-Tei and Levenkova
Table 2
Using either ΔGas-7, ΔGss-6 or both can better predict the efficacy of shRNAs.
Energy profile
ΔGas-7 or ΔGss-6or both
Energy criteria
>= -3.2
>= -6.6
>= -7.0
P value of Chi-test
True positive
False positive
True negative
False negative
ROC specificity
ROC sensitivity
ROC: Receiver Opearting Characteristic. True positives (TP) are those shRNAs which are experimentally tested to be functional and they meet the energy criteria. False positives (FP) are those shRNAs which meet the energy criteria but are experimentally tested to be nonfunctional. True negatives (TN) are those which are nonfunctional in experiments and fail the energy criteria. False negatives (FN) are those which fail the energy criteria but are functional experimentally. ROC specificity = TN/(TN+FP); ROC sensitivity = TP/(TP+FN).
Without any removal range, all the shRNAs whose ΔGas-7 >= -6.6 or ΔGss-6 >= -7.0 or both have averaged suppression efficacy of 76.98%, while those shRNAs with no high energy state at either end have averaged suppression efficacy of 65.83%. A two-sample t-test reveals that the difference between the two averaged efficacy is very significant (p = 0.0000047). This confirms that the use of either ΔGas-7, ΔGss-6or both could significantly improve the selection of functional shRNAs.
Recent research has shown that the siRNA sequence characteristics could be helpful in predicting siRNA efficacy
• The free energy of the first 7 base pairs of the antisense string (if >= -6.6, then value 1; otherwise, value -1).
• The free energy of the first 6 base pairs of the sense string (if >= -7.0, value equals 1; otherwise value equals -1).
• At each of the 21 positions, the nucleotide could be either A, C, G, T. For the presence of each nucleotide, there are 4 values generated. For example, for A, the 4 parameters are 1 0 0 0 while for G they are 0 0 1 0. So there are 84 parameters for the 21 nucleotides.
• For each pair of nearest neighbors, there are 4 × 4 = 16 parameters. For example, for AC, they are 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. So there are 16 × 20 = 320 parameters.
For this analysis, the removal range of 60–75% was selected since it provides a larger sample size than the removal range 55–80%. For each round of linear square analysis, three-fourth of shRNAs from the shRNA dataset were randomly selected as the experimental group to identify the best set of coefficients for the 406 parameters, while the remaining one-fourth of the samples were used to evaluate how well the parameters and the found coefficients can predict the shRNA efficacy. The experiment was repeated 8 times. The averaged prediction accuracy is about 68.55%, which cannot match the prediction by only using the energy profiles. Nevertheless, the linear analysis revealed that for the 8 repetitions of the experiments, some parameters always showed significant positive impact on the shRNA efficacy while others always had significant negative influence. These parameters are listed in Table
Table 3
Sequence characteristics that consistently show either positive or negative impacts on shRNA efficacy in Least Square Analysis.
Positive Parameters
Negative Parameters
Different parameter sets are also compiled in search for the best parameter set. For example, some parameter sets exclude energy profiles and some include GC ratio, etc. It is worthy to note that with different parameter sets, the coefficients change dramatically while the predication accuracy does not improve. This makes us wonder whether the findings by linear least square analysis are nuisances. However, we did notice that on average, the nucleotide pairs have larger impact than single nucleotides. For example, in Table
As there are reports that local RNA target structure influences siRNA efficacy
Initially we considered all possible palindromes and repeated sequences of length 7 or more that could involve any part of the 21 shRNA nucleotides. No significant results were found. We then only considered the possible palindromes and repeated sequences of length 8 or more that could only involve any part of the 6 base pairs from 5' terminal or of the 7 base pairs from 3' terminal. It was found that the number of possible palindromes of length 8 or more involving 3' terminal shows statistical bias between functional and nonfunctional shRNAs. Nonfunctional shRNAs tend to have more possible palindromes. This bias is most significant with palindromes of length 9 or more involving any part of the 7 base pairs from the 3' terminal. By Chi-Square test, the statistical significance is p = 0.011 with removal range of 55–80% and p = 0.0001 with removal range of 60–75%. Please notice that here we assumed that more possible palindromes implies higher probabilities for the terminal to be involved in secondary structure formation. If the assumption is valid, then the above result implies that secondary structure involving the 3' terminal could negatively impact the shRNA efficacy.
The above experiment targets the 7 base pairs at the 3' terminal. It is reasonable again to ask if other lengths of nucleotide sequences at 3' terminal will show similar statistical bias. Unsurprisingly, we found that all 3' terminal sequences of lengths 1 to 7 show similar statistical bias, i.e. functional shRNAs tend to have less possibility for all the terminal sequences of lengths 1 – 7 to be involved in palindrome formation. The most statistical bias is found with terminal sequence of length 6 (p < 0.000004 with removal range of 60–75%, p = 0.0006 with removal range 55–80%). This discovery motivates us to combine it with energy profile in order to further improve the efficacy predication. Our investigation has yet to show that this statistical bias could further improve the predication accuracy. This is not surprising since the possible palindrome structure could affect the terminal energy state. The two variables, the terminal energy state and the possible secondary structure are interfering with each other. A multivariate statistical analysis or recursive partition approach might help bring more lights into our future investigation.
The default setting of the three-phase algorithm is relatively stringent. Under this default setting, the algorithm cannot design shRNA sequences for approximately 8% of genes from human Refseq database
It has been confirmed by several studies that the free energy profile at the two terminals is the most critical factor relating to siRNA efficacy
Internal palindrome is one of several causes that help RNA molecules form secondary structures. Our analysis found that shRNAs with more possible palindromes involving the 3' terminal tend to affect shRNA efficacy negatively, especially those possible palindromes that are of length 9 or more and involve the 7 terminal nucleotides. RNA secondary structure involving the terminal could limit the accessibility of the terminal, which might explain why the secondary structure could negatively impact shRNA efficacy. However, our result is very primitive since it is obtained with possible palindromes only and is only a statistical analysis result. Our future work will make use of software mfold to more precisely elucidate the relationship between shRNA efficacy and RNA secondary structure. If more positive relationships are found, confirmation by biological experiments will follow.
Cell culture and shRNA delivery
293H cells (Invitrogen) were cultured in D-MEM supplemented with 10% FBS and 1× non-essential amino acids (Invitrogen) for no more than 15 passages. Gene specific shRNA sequences were designed using the three-phase algorithm
Real-time RT-PCR
cDNA was synthesized from total RNA using the ReactionReady™ First Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit. Real-time PCR was performed using RT2 SYBR Green qPCR Master Mixes on the Bio-Rad iCycler real-time PCR system or the Stratagene Mx3000 realtime PCR system.
Gene knockdown efficiency calculation
Detailed description of knockdown success rate and its calculation is given in
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
HZ carried out the statistical analysis of the data and drafted the manuscript. XZ participated in the biological data preparation and revised this manuscript critically. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This article has been published as part of
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RNAi suppresses polyglutamine-induced neurodegeneration in a model of spinocerebellar ataxia
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Positional effects of short interfering RNAs targeting the human coagulation trigger Tissue Factor
Cation-dependent transition between the quadruplex and Watson-Crick hairpin forms of d(CGCG3GCG)
siDirect: highly effective, target-specific siRNA design software for mammalian RNA interference
Guidelines for the selection of highly effective siRNA sequences for mammalian and chick RNA interference
siRNA Selection Server: an automated siRNA oligonucleotide prediction server
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Staff Data Operations Engineer
Idlewild , Michigan
December 20, 2016
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GE Digital
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Digital Information Technology & Digital Thread
About Us
GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.
GE offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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Staff Data Operations Engineer
Career Level
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Function Segment
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Location(s) Where Opening Is Available United States
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Cincinnati, Atlanta, Alpharetta, Van Buren Twp
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Responsible for design, prototype, test and implement reporting solutions that facility analytical deep dives into our core products and solutions using platform technologies and tools. You will deliver new commercially re-usable analytics that meet quality standards to drive growth in asset, application & industry coverage. Leveraging your strong engineering & analytics background, you will develop new analytics and automations to achieve outcomes GE needs based on your learnings.
Essential Responsibilities
In this role you will drive and execute the strategy for Business Intelligence, Analytics, & Automations
• Drive the Business Intelligence platform
• Perform development of data visualization and analytics
• Analyze data to identify improvement areas for CoreTech, GE Digital, and supported businesses
• Partner with the IT Risk team to deliver outcomes that will better protect the Company and provide solutions to the EVM team
• Partner with both core infrastructure teams and DWS on specific requirements and drive one common process providing automated solutions where feasible
• Actively communicate progress against goals
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering, OR in lieu of degree: HS Diploma/GED and 5+ years of IT experience or equivalent military experience/training.
• Minimum 2 years of IT experience with specific focus on Business Intelligence
• Minimum 2 years of IT technical experience in Big Data Technologies
• Minimum 2 years of experience in software platform development
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.
Desired Characteristics
• Experience with Tableau Server Administration
• Experience leading teams on Application Upgrades - planning, testing, scheduling, etc.
• Experience with User Administration - managing user access, view/publish permissions on server, etc.
• Experience working with end users on Business Intelligence related requests to understand requirements and make recommendations for what tool would best meet the users need
• Experience with building and delivering reports or dashboards that meet requestor's requirements while at the same time identifying opportunities to create global dashboards when beneficial to a larger audience
• Comfortable with developing in Oracle, SAP, MySQL, and SQL Server
• Familiar with Cloud data storage offerings
• Experience with working in Big Data tools and platforms (Hadoop, Greenplum, HVR, Casandra, etc.)
• Experience with ETL transport tools
• Comfortable in building features such as web services and Queries on existing tables.
• Aware of Methods and practices such as Lean/Agile/XP, etc. May have prior work experience in an agile environment, or introductory training on Lean/Agile. Aware of and able to apply continuous integration (CI).
• Experience with Automation and Orchestration tools (such as Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Scalr, etc.)
• Experience with multiple programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, R, etc.
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