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SUBMITTER: Gorbea C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9226524 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gorbea Carlos C Elhakiem Abdalla A Cazalla Demián D
Nucleic acids research 20220601 11
HSUR1 and HSUR2, two noncoding RNAs expressed by the oncogenic Herpesvirus saimiri, bind host microRNAs miR-142-3p, miR-16, and miR-27 with different purposes. While binding of miR-27 to HSUR1 triggers the degradation of the microRNA, miR-16 is tethered by HSUR2 to target host mRNAs to repress their expression. Here we show that the interaction with miR-142-3p is required for the activity of both HSURs. Coimmunoprecipitation experiments revealed that miR-142-3p allosterically regulates the bindi ...[more]