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ReviewJournal of molecular biology2013

The role of miRNAs in regulating gene expression networks.

Allan M Gurtan, Phillip A Sharp

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Review in Journal of molecular biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 234 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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234citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

234 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Exploring dysregulated miRNAs in ALS: implications for disease pathogenesis and early diagnosis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  15. Construction and Analysis of miRNA Regulatory Networks.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Allan M GurtanDavid H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Electronic address: gurtan@mit.edu.
Phillip A Sharp

Funding

VIRUS PRODUCTION COREP30CA014051 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MATTHEW G. VANDER HEIDEN · 1985 to 2026
$93.9M
USE OF RETROVIRUS PROMOTER TRAP VECTORS TO IDENTIFY ONCOGENES AND ANTI-ONCOGENESP01CA042063 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI JACKS, TYLER E. · 1986 to 2021
$30.5M
Stress and Proliferation States Impact MicroRNA-Mediated Regulation in CancerR01CA133404 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SHARP, PHILLIP A · 2008 to 2017
$4.6M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA042063NCI NIH HHS P01-CA42063NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014051NCI NIH HHS P30-CA14051NCI NIH HHS R01 CA133404NCI NIH HHS R01-CA133404
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are key regulators of gene expression. They are conserved across species, expressed across cell types, and active against a large proportion of the transcriptome. The sequence-complementary mechanism of miRNA activity exploits combinatorial diversity, a property conducive to network-wide regulation of gene expression, and functional evidence supporting this hypothesized systems-level role has steadily begun to accumulate. The emerging models are exciting and will yield deep insight into the regulatory architecture of biology. However, because of the technical challenges facing the network-based study of miRNAs, many gaps remain. Here, we review mammalian miRNAs by describing recent advances in understanding their molecular activity and network-wide function.

Indexed as

Gene ExpressionGene Regulatory NetworksAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsArgonaute ProteinsHumansMicroRNAsMolecular Sequence DataPhenotypeProtein ConformationRNA-Induced Silencing ComplexTranscription FactorsTranscriptomeArgonaute ProteinsMicroRNAsRNA-Induced Silencing ComplexTranscription FactorsAgo2Argonaute 2DicerDroshaembryonic stem cellEMTepithelial-to-mesenchymal transitionESCknockoutKOlet-7microRNAmiRNAnetworkprecursor miRNApre-miRNARISCRNA-induced silencing complexTGFβtransforming growth factor betauntranslated regionUTR

Identifiers

PMID23500488
PMCPMC3757117

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