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ArticleNucleic acids research2018

Human cancer tissues exhibit reduced A-to-I editing of miRNAs coupled with elevated editing of their targets.

Yishay Pinto, Ilana Buchumenski, Erez Y Levanon, Eli Eisenberg

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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60 citing papers in PubMed, 125 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yishay PintoThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, 5290002 Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Ilana BuchumenskiThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, 5290002 Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Erez Y LevanonThe Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, 5290002 Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Eli EisenbergRaymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
Bar-Ilan University · ILTel Aviv University · IL

Funding

European Research Council 311257
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A-to-I RNA editing is an important post-transcriptional modification, known to be altered in tumors. It targets dozens of sites within miRNAs, some of which impact miRNA biogenesis and function, as well as many miRNA recognition sites. However, the full extent of the effect of editing on regulation by miRNAs and its behavior in human cancers is still unknown. Here we systematically characterized miRNA editing in 10 593 human samples across 32 cancer types and normal controls. We find that the majority of previously reported sites show little to no evidence for editing in this dataset, compile a list of 58 reliable miRNA editing sites, and study them across normal and cancer samples. Edited miRNA versions tend to suppress expression of known oncogenes, and, consistently, we observe a clear global tendency for hypo-editing in tumors, in strike contrast to the behavior for mRNA editing, allowing an accurate classification of normal/tumor samples based on their miRNA editing profile. In many cancers this profile correlates with patients' survival. Finally, thousands of miRNA binding sites are differentially edited in cancer. Our study thus establishes the important effect of RNA editing on miRNA-regulation in the tumor cell, with prospects for diagnostic and prognostic applications.

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RNA Editing3' Untranslated RegionsAdenosineBinding SitesGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansInosineMicroRNAsNeoplasmsSurvival Analysis3' Untranslated RegionsAdenosineInosineMicroRNAs

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PMID29165639
PMCPMC5758889
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