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ArticleRNA biology2015

RNA-mediated degradation of microRNAs: A widespread viral strategy?

Jana McCaskill, Pairoa Praihirunkit, Paul M Sharp, Amy H Buck

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Article in RNA biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Target-Directed miRNA Degradation: Mechanisms and Significance.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  3. Challenging Cellular Homeostasis: Spatial and Temporal Regulation of miRNAs.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  5. SARS-CoV-2 expresses a microRNA-like small RNA able to selectively repress host genes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  9. miRNA degradation in the mammalian brain.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2020
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  14. Target RNAs Strike Back on MicroRNAs.Frontiers in genetics · 2018
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  19. Viruses and miRNAs: More Friends than Foes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Jana McCaskilla Institute of Immunology and Infection Research; School of Biological Sciences; University of Edinburgh ; Edinburgh , UK.
Pairoa Praihirunkit
Paul M Sharp
Amy H Buck
University of Edinburgh · GBInstitute of Immunology · HR

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J001279Wellcome Trust 095831Wellcome Trust WT097394A1A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulation of small RNAs by other non-coding RNAs is a ubiquitous feature of gene regulatory systems that can be exploited by viruses. Examples of this have been described in 3 different herpesviruses, where viral non-coding RNAs bind to highly abundant cellular (miRNAs), mediating their degradation: miR-27 is targeted by both murine cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus saimiri, while the miR-17 family is targeted by human cytomegalovirus. We review what is known about RNA-mediated regulation of miRNA stability and propose 3 potential roles that viral non-coding RNAs might assume to initiate the destruction of a miRNA, acting as "recruiters," "localizers" or "exposers." Whereas the miRNAs (miR-17 and miR-27) appear to be ancient and pre-date the common ancestor of all mammalian herpesviruses, comparative analyses of herpesvirus genomes indicate that the 3 known viral regulators of miRNA each evolved independently, and much more recently. Noting that the anti-viral activity of miRNAs might be countered by a variety of mechanisms, we propose that (i) there has been continual turnover of these mechanisms during herpesvirus evolution, and (ii) there may be many other, as yet undescribed, anti-miRNA activities encoded by other herpesviruses and indeed by viruses from other families.

Indexed as

RNA StabilityAnimalsHerpes SimplexHerpesvirus 1, HumanHumansMicroRNAsRNA, ViralMicroRNAsRNA, ViralherpesvirusIL-10microRNAmicroRNA turnovermiRNA response elementRNA degradationRNAiviral evolution

Identifiers

PMID25849078
PMCPMC4615357
OpenAlexW1595596448

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