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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7216
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short RNAs that direct messenger RNA degradation or disrupt mRNA translation in a sequence-dependent manner. For more than a decade, attempts to study the interaction of miRNAs with their targets were confined to the 3' untranslated regions of mRNAs, fuelling an underlying assumption that these regions are the principal recipients of miRNA activity. Here we focus on the mouse Nanog, Oct4 (also known as Pou5f1) and Sox2 genes and demonstrate the existence of many naturally occurring miRNA targets in their amino acid coding sequence (CDS). Some of the mouse targets analysed do not contain the miRNA seed, whereas others span exon-exon junctions or are not conserved in the human and rhesus genomes. miR-134, miR-296 and miR-470, upregulated on retinoic-acid-induced differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells, target the CDS of each transcription factor in various combinations, leading to transcriptional and morphological changes characteristic of differentiating mouse embryonic stem cells, and resulting in a new phenotype. Silent mutations at the predicted targets abolish miRNA activity, prevent the downregulation of the corresponding genes and delay the induced phenotype. Our findings demonstrate the abundance of CDS-located miRNA targets, some of which can be species-specific, and support an augmented model whereby animal miRNAs exercise their control on mRNAs through targets that can reside beyond the 3' untranslated region.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA-Binding Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/HMGB Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Homeodomain Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/MicroRNAs, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nanog protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Octamer Transcription Factor-3, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Pou5f1 protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SOX2 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SOXB1 Transcription Factors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Sox2 protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Transcription Factors
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1476-4687
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
23
pubmed:volume
455
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1124-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-5-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Embryonic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-HMGB Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Homeodomain Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-MicroRNAs, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Octamer Transcription Factor-3, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Open Reading Frames, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-SOXB1 Transcription Factors, pubmed-meshheading:18806776-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
MicroRNAs to Nanog, Oct4 and Sox2 coding regions modulate embryonic stem cell differentiation.
pubmed:affiliation
Stem Cell and Developmental Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science Technology and Research, #08-01, Genome, 60 Biopolis Street, Singapore 138672, Singapore.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural