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ArticleGenome research2010

A comprehensive survey of 3' animal miRNA modification events and a possible role for 3' adenylation in modulating miRNA targeting effectiveness.

A Maxwell Burroughs, Yoshinari Ando, Michiel J L de Hoon, Yasuhiro Tomaru, Takahiro Nishibu, Ryo Ukekawa, Taku Funakoshi, Tsutomu Kurokawa, Harukazu Suzuki, Yoshihide Hayashizaki and 1 more

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Article in Genome research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 232 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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232 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 352 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

A Maxwell BurroughsOmics Science Center (OSC), RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan. burrough@gsc.riken.jp
Yoshinari Ando
Michiel J L de Hoon
Yasuhiro Tomaru
Takahiro Nishibu
Ryo Ukekawa
Taku Funakoshi
Tsutomu Kurokawa
Harukazu Suzuki
Yoshihide Hayashizaki
Carsten O Daub
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animal microRNA sequences are subject to 3' nucleotide addition. Through detailed analysis of deep-sequenced short RNA data sets, we show adenylation and uridylation of miRNA is globally present and conserved across Drosophila and vertebrates. To better understand 3' adenylation function, we deep-sequenced RNA after knockdown of nucleotidyltransferase enzymes. The PAPD4 nucleotidyltransferase adenylates a wide range of miRNA loci, but adenylation does not appear to affect miRNA stability on a genome-wide scale. Adenine addition appears to reduce effectiveness of miRNA targeting of mRNA transcripts while deep-sequencing of RNA bound to immunoprecipitated Argonaute (AGO) subfamily proteins EIF2C1-EIF2C3 revealed substantial reduction of adenine addition in miRNA associated with EIF2C2 and EIF2C3. Our findings show 3' addition events are widespread and conserved across animals, PAPD4 is a primary miRNA adenylating enzyme, and suggest a role for 3' adenine addition in modulating miRNA effectiveness, possibly through interfering with incorporation into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), a regulatory role that would complement the role of miRNA uridylation in blocking DICER1 uptake.

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3' Untranslated RegionsAdenineAnimalsArgonaute ProteinsCell LineEukaryotic Initiation Factor-2Eukaryotic Initiation FactorsHumansMiceMicroRNAsMonocytesmRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation FactorsNucleotidyltransferasesPolynucleotide AdenylyltransferaseRNA Stability3' Untranslated RegionsAdenineAGO1 protein, humanAGO3 protein, humanArgonaute ProteinsEukaryotic Initiation Factor-2Eukaryotic Initiation FactorsMicroRNAsmRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation FactorsNucleotidyltransferasesPolynucleotide AdenylyltransferaseTENT2 protein, human

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PMID20719920
PMCPMC2945189
OpenAlexW2119480083

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