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ArticleNucleic acids research2015

A general approach to high-yield biosynthesis of chimeric RNAs bearing various types of functional small RNAs for broad applications.

Qiu-Xia Chen, Wei-Peng Wang, Su Zeng, Shiro Urayama, Ai-Ming Yu

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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56citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Qiu-Xia ChenDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Drug Metabolism, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Anti-Cancer Drug Research, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.
Wei-Peng WangDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
Su ZengLaboratory of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Drug Metabolism, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Anti-Cancer Drug Research, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.
Shiro UrayamaDepartment of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
Ai-Ming YuDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA aimyu@ucdavis.edu.
University of California, Davis · USZhejiang University · CN

Funding

Staff InvestigatorsP30CA093373 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI Laura Marcu · 2002 to 2026
$84.9M
MicroRNA-1291 in Regulation of Xenobiotic Disposition and Cell DifferentiationU01CA175315 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI YU, AIMING · 2014 to 2018
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS 1U01CA175315NCI NIH HHS P30 CA093373NCI NIH HHS U01 CA175315
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA research and therapy relies primarily on synthetic RNAs. We employed recombinant RNA technology toward large-scale production of pre-miRNA agents in bacteria, but found the majority of target RNAs were not or negligibly expressed. We thus developed a novel strategy to achieve consistent high-yield biosynthesis of chimeric RNAs carrying various small RNAs (e.g. miRNAs, siRNAs and RNA aptamers), which was based upon an optimal noncoding RNA scaffold (OnRS) derived from tRNA fusion pre-miR-34a (tRNA/mir-34a). Multi-milligrams of chimeric RNAs (e.g. OnRS/miR-124, OnRS/GFP-siRNA, OnRS/Neg (scrambled RNA) and OnRS/MGA (malachite green aptamer)) were readily obtained from 1 l bacterial culture. Deep sequencing analyses revealed that mature miR-124 and target GFP-siRNA were selectively released from chimeric RNAs in human cells. Consequently, OnRS/miR-124 was active in suppressing miR-124 target gene expression and controlling cellular processes, and OnRS/GFP-siRNA was effective in knocking down GFP mRNA levels and fluorescent intensity in ES-2/GFP cells and GFP-transgenic mice. Furthermore, the OnRS/MGA sensor offered a specific strong fluorescence upon binding MG, which was utilized as label-free substrate to accurately determine serum RNase activities in pancreatic cancer patients. These results demonstrate that OnRS-based bioengineering is a common, robust and versatile strategy to assemble various types of small RNAs for broad applications.

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AnimalsBase SequenceGene Knockdown TechniquesGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMiceMice, TransgenicNucleic Acid ConformationRecombination, GeneticRNAGreen Fluorescent ProteinsRNA

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