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ArticleRNA biology2018

Comparing two approaches of miR-34a target identification, biotinylated-miRNA pulldown vs miRNA overexpression.

Hassaan Mehboob Awan, Abdullah Shah, Farooq Rashid, Shuai Wei, Liang Chen, Ge Shan

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Article in RNA biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hassaan Mehboob Awana CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, School of Life Sciences , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei , China.ORCID 0000-0002-8245-8909
Abdullah Shaha CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, School of Life Sciences , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei , China.
Farooq Rashida CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, School of Life Sciences , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei , China.
Shuai Weia CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, School of Life Sciences , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei , China.
Liang Chena CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, School of Life Sciences , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei , China.
Ge Shana CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, School of Life Sciences , University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei , China.ORCID 0000-0002-3561-2088
University of Science and Technology of China · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

microRNAs (miRNAs) are critical regulators of gene expression. For elucidating functional roles of miRNAs, it is critical to identify their direct targets. There are debates about whether pulldown of biotinylated miRNA mimics can be used to identify miRNA targets or not. Here we show that biotin-labelled miR-34a can be loaded to AGO2, and AGO2 immunoprecipitation can pulldown biotinylated miR-34a (Bio-miR pulldown). RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) of the Bio-miR pulldown RNAs efficiently identified miR-34a mRNA targets, which could be verified with luciferase assays. In contrast to the approach of Bio-miR pulldown, RNA-seq of miR-34a overexpression samples had limited value in identifying direct targets of miR-34a. It seems that pulldown of 3'-Biotin-tagged miRNA can identify bona fide microRNA targets at least for miR-34a.

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Argonaute ProteinsBiotinCell ProliferationGene Expression RegulationHEK293 CellsHumansMicroRNAsRNA, MessengerSequence Analysis, RNATransfectionAGO2 protein, humanArgonaute ProteinsBiotinMicroRNAsMIRN34 microRNA, humanRNA, MessengerArgonaut 2Biotinylated miRNAmicroRNA targetsRNA pull downRNA-seq

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PMID29028450
PMCPMC5786020
OpenAlexW2761411050

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