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Nicolas, Francisco Esteban, Pais, Helio, Schwach, Frank, Lindow, Morten, Kauppinen, Sakari, Moulton, Vincent 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9371-6435 and Dalmay, Tamas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1492-5429
(2011)
mRNA expression profiling reveals conserved and non-conserved miR-140 targets.
RNA Biology, 8 (4).
pp. 607-615.
ISSN 1547-6286
Abstract
microRNAs are non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression. A significant proportion of microRNAs is perfectly conserved across the vertebrate clade, including miR-140, which is specifically expressed in cartilage. Although it has been computationally predicted that a large majority of microRNA targets are conserved, experimental evidence for this hypothesis remains scarce. In this work we use mRNA expression profiles obtained after manipulation of miR-140 activity levels in human and chicken primary chondrocytes to explore the extent of miR-140 target conservation. Our data suggest that miR-140 has a large number of targets conserved between human and chicken and we validate one of these, BMP2. However, we also found a significant number of non-conserved targets in the two species. In addition, we found that a commercially available scrambled siRNA, which is regularly used as a negative control, regulate the accumulation of many genes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Users 2731 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2011 13:39 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Apr 2023 00:02 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/35048 |
| DOI: | 10.4161/rna.8.4.15390 |
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