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ArticleEvolutionary bioinformatics online2015

Apparent microRNA-Target-specific Histone Modification in Mammalian Spermatogenesis.

Y-H Taguchi

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Article in Evolutionary bioinformatics online, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hallmarks of exosomes.Future science OA · 2022
    Review
  2. Epigenetics: A key paradigm in reproductive health.Clinical and experimental reproductive medicine · 2016
    Review
  3. RNA: An Expanding View of Function and Evolution.Evolutionary bioinformatics online · 2015
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Y-H TaguchiDepartment of Physics, Chuo University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Chuo University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundEpigenetics is an important mRNA expression regulator. However, how distinct epigenetic factors, such as microRNAs (miRNAs) and promoter methylation, cooperatively regulate mRNA expression is rarely discussed. Recently, apparent miRNA regulation of promoter methylation was identified by bioinformatic analysis; however, it has not yet been experimentally confirmed. If miRNA regulation of other epigenetic factors were identified, it would reveal another layer of epigenetic regulation. In this paper, histone modifications (H3K4me1, H3K4me3, H3K27me3, H3K27ac, H3K9ac, and H2AZ) during mammalian spermatogenesis were studied and the apparent miRNA-target-specific histone modification was investigated by bioinformatic analyses of publicly available datasets.

resultsWe identified several miRNAs' target genes that are significantly associated with histone modification during mammalian spermatogenesis. MiRNAs that target genes associated with the most significant histone modifications are expressed before or during spermatogenesis; thus the results were convincing.

conclusionsIn this paper, we identified apparent miRNA regulation of histone modifications using a bioinformatics approach. The biological mechanisms of this effect should be further experimentally investigated.

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histone modificationmammalian spermatogenesismicroRNA regulationMiRaGE

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PMID25780334
PMCPMC4345942
OpenAlexW2075598836

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