Project description:miR-145 is a tumor suppressor miRNA in various malignancies including pancreatic cancer. How miR-145 regulates expression of other miRNAs could provide a panoramic view of the development of pancreatic cancer. Therefore, in this project, we aimed to characterize how other miRNAs are affected by miR-145 in hope for understanding proteomic changes that are not explained by miR-145 alone.
Project description:miR-145 is a tumor suppressor miRNA in various malignancies including pancreatic cancer. How miR-145 regulates expression of other miRNAs could provide a panoramic view of the development of pancreatic cancer. Therefore, in this project, we aimed to characterize how other miRNAs are affected by miR-145 in hope for understanding proteomic changes that are not explained by miR-145 alone. miRNA microarray was used to compare expression of all miRNAs 48 hr after transfection of miR-145 mimics or control scramble RNA in a pancreatic cancer cell line, Mia-PaCa2.
Project description:miR-145 is downregulated in multiple cancers. The introduction of miR-145 could alleviate the tumor burden in the pancreatic cancer mouse model. However, how miR-145 mediates the tumor suppression is still an open question. In this study, we aimed to identify the targets of miR-145 using a SILAC approach.
Project description:miR-145 is a tumor suppressor miRNA in various malignancies including pancreatic cancer. Identification of miR-145 targets can lead to more understanding of the development of pancreatic cancer. Therefore, in this project, we aimed to characterize the changes of transcriptomes caused by miR-145 to identify more miR-145 target transcripts. cDNA microarray was used to compare transcriptomes 48 hr after transfection of miR-145 mimics or control scramble RNA in a pancreatic cancer cell line, Mia-PaCa2.
Project description:miR-145 is a tumor suppressor miRNA in various malignancies including pancreatic cancer. Identification of miR-145 targets can lead to more understanding of the development of pancreatic cancer. Therefore, in this project, we aimed to characterize the changes of transcriptomes caused by miR-145 to identify more miR-145 target transcripts.
Project description:We recently identified a subset of down-regulated miRNAs such as miR-145 and miR-133a in bladder cancer. Cell growth inhibitions occurred in miR-145 and miR-133a transfectants compared with the controls, suggesting that both miRNAs function as tumor suppressors. The aims of our expression studies were identification of these miRNAs target genes.
Project description:We have sequenced miRNA libraries from human embryonic, neural and foetal mesenchymal stem cells. We report that the majority of miRNA genes encode mature isomers that vary in size by one or more bases at the 3’ and/or 5’ end of the miRNA. Northern blotting for individual miRNAs showed that the proportions of isomiRs expressed by a single miRNA gene often differ between cell and tissue types. IsomiRs were readily co-immunoprecipitated with Argonaute proteins in vivo and were active in luciferase assays, indicating that they are functional. Bioinformatics analysis predicts substantial differences in targeting between miRNAs with minor 5’ differences and in support of this we report that a 5’ isomiR-9-1 gained the ability to inhibit the expression of DNMT3B and NCAM2 but lost the ability to inhibit CDH1 in vitro. This result was confirmed by the use of isomiR-specific sponges. Our analysis of the miRGator database indicates that a small percentage of human miRNA genes express isomiRs as the dominant transcript in certain cell types and analysis of miRBase shows that 5’ isomiRs have replaced canonical miRNAs many times during evolution. This strongly indicates that isomiRs are of functional importance and have contributed to the evolution of miRNA genes