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A Novel Pathway of Functional microRNA Uptake and Mitochondria Delivery.

ABSTRACT: Extracellular microRNAs (miRNAs) play a critical role in horizontal gene regulation. Uptake of extracellular miRNAs by recipient cells and their intracellular transport, however, remains elusive. Here RNA phase separation is shown as a novel pathway of miRNA uptake. In the presence of serum, synthetic miRNAs rapidly self-assembly into ≈110 nm discrete nanoparticles, which enable miRNAs' entry into different cells. Depleting serum cationic proteins prevents the formation of such nanoparticles and thus blocks miRNA uptake. Different from lipofectamine-mediated miRNA transfection in which majority of miRNAs are accumulated in lysosomes of transfected cells, nanoparticles-mediated miRNA uptake predominantly delivers miRNAs into mitochondria in a polyribonucleotide nucleotidyltransferase 1(PNPT1)-dependent manner. Functional assays further show that the internalized miR-21 via miRNA phase separation enhances mitochondrial translation of cytochrome b (CYB), leading to increase in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) reduction in HEK293T cells. The findings thus reveal a previously unrecognized mechanism for uptake and delivery functional extracellular miRNAs into mitochondria.

SUBMITTER: Liu J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10460862 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A Novel Pathway of Functional microRNA Uptake and Mitochondria Delivery.

Liu Jiachen J Li Weili W Li Jianfeng J Song Eli E Liang Hongwei H Rong Weiwei W Jiang Xinli X Xu Nuo N Wang Wei W Qu Shuang S Gu Shouyong S Zhang Yujing Y Yu Zhang Chen- C Zen Ke K

Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20230625 24

Extracellular microRNAs (miRNAs) play a critical role in horizontal gene regulation. Uptake of extracellular miRNAs by recipient cells and their intracellular transport, however, remains elusive. Here RNA phase separation is shown as a novel pathway of miRNA uptake. In the presence of serum, synthetic miRNAs rapidly self-assembly into ≈110 nm discrete nanoparticles, which enable miRNAs' entry into different cells. Depleting serum cationic proteins prevents the formation of such nanoparticles and ...[more]

PMID: 37357137

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