Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31806698›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2019

The biochemical basis of microRNA targeting efficacy.

Sean E McGeary, Kathy S Lin, Charlie Y Shi, Thy M Pham, Namita Bisaria, Gina M Kelley, David P Bartel

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 987 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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987citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

987 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 1,558 citations in OpenAlex.

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927 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sean E McGeary *Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5343-6447
Kathy S Lin *Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1637-6654
Charlie Y ShiHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5229-9196
Thy M PhamHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Namita BisariaHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Gina M KelleyHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9175-6513
David P BartelHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. dbartel@wi.mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3872-2856
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

PRE-DOCTORAL TRAINING IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCEST32GM007287 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BELL, STEPHEN P., KEATING, AMY E · 1985 to 2019
$40.8M
Post-transcriptional gene regulationR35GM118135 · NIGMS · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI DAVID P BARTEL · 2016 to 2026
$10.7M
Graduate Training in Computational and Systems BiologyT32GM087237 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BURGE, CHRISTOPHER B · 2009 to 2023
$4.6M
Understanding miRNA-target recognition through comprehensive affinity and repression measurementsF32GM123719 · NIGMS · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI BISARIA, NAMITA · 2017 to 2019
$137k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM123719NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118135NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007287NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM087237
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) act within Argonaute proteins to guide repression of messenger RNA targets. Although various approaches have provided insight into target recognition, the sparsity of miRNA-target affinity measurements has limited understanding and prediction of targeting efficacy. Here, we adapted RNA bind-n-seq to enable measurement of relative binding affinities between Argonaute-miRNA complexes and all sequences ≤12 nucleotides in length. This approach revealed noncanonical target sites specific to each miRNA, miRNA-specific differences in canonical target-site affinities, and a 100-fold impact of dinucleotides flanking each site. These data enabled construction of a biochemical model of miRNA-mediated repression, which was extended to all miRNA sequences using a convolutional neural network. This model substantially improved prediction of cellular repression, thereby providing a biochemical basis for quantitatively integrating miRNAs into gene-regulatory networks.

Indexed as

Argonaute ProteinsBase SequenceGene Expression RegulationHEK293 CellsHumansMicroRNAsProtein BindingSequence Analysis, RNAArgonaute ProteinsMicroRNAs

Identifiers

PMID31806698
PMCPMC7051167
OpenAlexW2993347499

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