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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

A unifying model for microRNA-guided silencing of messenger RNAs.

Tanmay Chatterjee, Shankar Mandal, Sujay Ray, Alexander Johnson-Buck, Nils G Walter

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5 authors.

Tanmay ChatterjeeSingle Molecule Analysis Group and Center for RNA Biomedicine, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States.
Shankar MandalSingle Molecule Analysis Group and Center for RNA Biomedicine, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States.
Sujay RaySingle Molecule Analysis Group and Center for RNA Biomedicine, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States.
Alexander Johnson-BuckSingle Molecule Analysis Group and Center for RNA Biomedicine, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States.
Nils G WalterSingle Molecule Analysis Group and Center for RNA Biomedicine, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7301-1275

Funding

The RNA nanomachines of the gene expression machinery dissected at the single molecule levelR35GM131922 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI NILS G WALTER · 2019 to 2026
$6.9M
Optimization and Validation of Single-Molecule Kinetic Fingerprinting Technology for Rapid, Ultra-Specific Detection of Cancer MutationsR33CA229023 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI TEWARI, MUNEESH, WALTER, NILS G · 2018 to 2020
$1.2M
Single-molecule counting of cancer biomarker miRNAs in human biofluidsR21CA204560 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WALTER, NILS G · 2017 to 2019
$614k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA204560NCI NIH HHS R33 CA229023NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131922
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Silencing by the miRNA-guided RNA induced silencing complex (miRISC) is dependent on Ago2-chaperoned base pairing between the miRNA 5' seed (5'S) and a complementary sequence in the 3' untranslated region of an mRNA. Prevailing mechanistic understanding posits that initial 5'S pairing can further allow functional base pair expansion into the 3' non-seed (3'NS), while functionally distinct non-canonical pairing was reported between only the 3'NS and the mRNA coding sequence. We developed single-molecule kinetics through equilibrium Poisson sampling (SiMKEPS) to measure highly precise binding and dissociation rate constants of varying-length target sequences to 5'S and 3'NS in a paradigmatic miRISC isolated from human cells, revealing distinct stable states of miRISC with mutually exclusive 5'S and 3'NS pairing. Our data suggest conformational rearrangements of the Ago2-bound miRNA that regulate alternative 5'S- and 3'NS-driven target recognition. The resulting model reconciles previously disparate observations and deepens our acumen for successfully marshaling RNA silencing therapies.

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Ago2conformational dynamicskinetic fingerprintingmicroRNARNA induced silencing complexsingle molecule fluorescencetarget recognition

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PMID40166176
PMCPMC11956936

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