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ArticleGenes & development2010

Mammalian microRNAs: experimental evaluation of novel and previously annotated genes.

H Rosaria Chiang, Lori W Schoenfeld, J Graham Ruby, Vincent C Auyeung, Noah Spies, Daehyun Baek, Wendy K Johnston, Carsten Russ, Shujun Luo, Joshua E Babiarz and 4 more

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Article in Genes & development, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 495 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

495 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 838 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

H Rosaria ChiangWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
Lori W Schoenfeld
J Graham Ruby
Vincent C Auyeung
Noah Spies
Daehyun Baek
Wendy K Johnston
Carsten Russ
Shujun Luo
Joshua E Babiarz
Robert Blelloch
Gary P Schroth
Chad Nusbaum
David P Bartel
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research · USBroad Institute · USIllumina (United States) · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM007753 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WALENSKY, LOREN DAVID · 1985 to 2021
$50.0M
MicroRNA genes and their functionsR01GM067031 · NIGMS · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI BARTEL, DAVID P · 2002 to 2015
$7.3M
Small RNAs in Stem Cell Differentiation and Neural DevelopmentR01NS057221 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BLELLOCH, ROBERT · 2007 to 2010
$1.4M
Determinants of Neural &Embryonic Stem Cell PotencyK08NS048118 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI BLELLOCH, ROBERT · 2005 to 2009
$876k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS GM067031NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067031NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007753NINDS NIH HHS K08 NS048118NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS057221
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small regulatory RNAs that derive from distinctive hairpin transcripts. To learn more about the miRNAs of mammals, we sequenced 60 million small RNAs from mouse brain, ovary, testes, embryonic stem cells, three embryonic stages, and whole newborns. Analysis of these sequences confirmed 398 annotated miRNA genes and identified 108 novel miRNA genes. More than 150 previously annotated miRNAs and hundreds of candidates failed to yield sequenced RNAs with miRNA-like features. Ectopically expressing these previously proposed miRNA hairpins also did not yield small RNAs, whereas ectopically expressing the confirmed and newly identified hairpins usually did yield small RNAs with the classical miRNA features, including dependence on the Drosha endonuclease for processing. These experiments, which suggest that previous estimates of conserved mammalian miRNAs were inflated, provide a substantially revised list of confidently identified murine miRNAs from which to infer the general features of mammalian miRNAs. Our analyses also revealed new aspects of miRNA biogenesis and modification, including tissue-specific strand preferences, sequential Dicer cleavage of a metazoan precursor miRNA (pre-miRNA), consequential 5' heterogeneity, newly identified instances of miRNA editing, and evidence for widespread pre-miRNA uridylation reminiscent of miRNA regulation by Lin28.

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AnimalsCell LineGene Expression ProfilingGenesGenomeHumansInverted Repeat SequencesMiceMicroRNAsRibonuclease IIIMicroRNAsRibonuclease III

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PMID20413612
PMCPMC2867214
OpenAlexW2149930662

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