Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are highly conserved ∼22 nt small noncoding RNAs that bind partially complementary sequences in target transcripts. MicroRNAs regulate both translation and transcript stability, and play important roles in development, cellular homeostasis, and disease. There are limited approaches available to agnostically identify microRNA targets transcriptome-wide, and methods using miRNA mimics, which in principle identify direct miRNA:transcript pairs, have low sensitivity and specificity. Here, we describe a novel method to identify microRNA targets using miR-29b mimics containing 3cyanovinylcarbazole ( CNV K), a photolabile nucleoside analog. We demonstrate that biotin-tagged, CNV K-containing miR-29b ( CNV K-miR-29b) mimics are nontoxic in cell culture, associate with endogenous mammalian Argonaute2, arehighly sensitive for known targets and recapitulate endogenous transcript destabilization. Partnering CNV K-miR-29b with ultra-low-input RNA sequencing, we recover ∼40% of known miR-29b targets and findrobust conservation of the focal adhesion and apoptotic target pathways in mouse and mouse. We also identify hundreds of novel targets, including NRAS, HOXA10, and KLF11, with a validation rate of 71% for a subset of 73 novel target transcripts interrogated using a high-throughput luciferase assay. Consistent with previous reports, we show that both endogenous miR-29b and CNV K-miR-29b are trafficked to the nucleus, but find no evidence of nuclear-specific miR-29b transcript binding. This may indicate that miR-29b nuclear sequestration is a regulatory mechanism in itself. We suggest that CNV K-containing small RNA mimics may find applicability in other experimental models
Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are highly conserved ∼22 nt small noncoding RNAs that bind partially complementary sequences in target transcripts. MicroRNAs regulate both translation and transcript stability, and play important roles in development, cellular homeostasis, and disease. There are limited approaches available to agnostically identify microRNA targets transcriptome-wide, and methods using miRNA mimics, which in principle identify direct miRNA:transcript pairs, have low sensitivity and specificity. Here, we describe a novel method to identify microRNA targets using miR-29b mimics containing 3cyanovinylcarbazole ( CNV K), a photolabile nucleoside analog. We demonstrate that biotin-tagged, CNV K-containing miR-29b ( CNV K-miR-29b) mimics are nontoxic in cell culture, associate with endogenous mammalian Argonaute2, arehighly sensitive for known targets and recapitulate endogenous transcript destabilization. Partnering CNV K-miR-29b with ultra-low-input RNA sequencing, we recover ∼40% of known miR-29b targets and findrobust conservation of the focal adhesion and apoptotic target pathways in mouse and human. We also identify hundreds of novel targets, including NRAS, HOXA10, and KLF11, with a validation rate of 71% for a subset of 73 novel target transcripts interrogated using a high-throughput luciferase assay. Consistent with previous reports, we show that both endogenous miR-29b and CNV K-miR-29b are trafficked to the nucleus, but find no evidence of nuclear-specific miR-29b transcript binding. This may indicate that miR-29b nuclear sequestration is a regulatory mechanism in itself. We suggest that CNV K-containing small RNA mimics may find applicability in other experimental models
Project description:Dendritic cells (DCs) are among the major components of multiple myeloma (MM)-associated bone-marrow microenvironment and are involved in MM progression, growth and chemo-resistance. We observed that after 24h co-culture with different MM cell lines, DCs downregulate miR-29b expression. To gain insight on the effects of miR-29b, we performed a transcriptome analysis of DCs after transient transfection of a negative control or miR-29b mimics and 24h co-culture with U266 cell line.
Project description:The goal of this experiment was to identify the putative mRNA targets of miR-29b-1 and miR-29a in LCC9 tamoxifen-resistant breast cancer cell lines relative to parental MCF-7 tamoxifen-sensitive cells
Project description:To have a global picture of the targets of the mir-29b-2-5p, we assessed transcriptome changes, by deep-sequencing, of HeLa cells transfected with this miRNA or a control miRNA (cel-miR-231).