Unambiguous Identification of miRNA:target site Interactions by Different Types of Ligation Reactions

ABSTRACT: To exert regulatory function, miRNAs guide Argonaute (AGO) proteins to partially complementary sites on target RNAs. Crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (“re state-of-the-art to map AGO binding sites, but assigning the targeting miRNA to these sites relies on bioinformatics predictions and is therefore indirect. To directly and unambiguously identify miRNA:target site interactions, we modified our CLIP methodology in C. elegans to experimentally ligate miRNAs to their target sites. Unexpectedly, ligation reactions also occurred in absence of the exogenous ligase. Our in vivo dataset and re-analysis of published mammalian AGO-CLIP data for miRNA-chimeras yielded >17,000 miRNA:target site interactions. Analysis of interactions and extensive experimental validation of chimera-discovered targ

ORGANISM(S): Caenorhabditis elegans

SUBMITTER: Nikolaus Rajewsky 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-56180 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress