Reexamining assumptions about miRNA-guided gene silencing

A Kilikevicius, G Meister, DR Corey - Nucleic acids research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short endogenously expressed RNAs that have the potential to
regulate the expression of any RNA. This potential has led to the publication of several …

Sequence-specific inhibition of microRNA-and siRNA-induced RNA silencing

G Meister, M Landthaler, Y Dorsett, T Tuschl - Rna, 2004 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
A large number of miRNAs have recently been discovered in plants and animals.
Development of reverse genetic approaches that act to inhibit microRNA function would …

Endogenous transcripts control miRNA levels and activity in mammalian cells by target-directed miRNA degradation

F Ghini, C Rubolino, M Climent, I Simeone… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Little is known about miRNA decay. A target-directed miRNA degradation mechanism
(TDMD) has been suggested, but further investigation on endogenous targets is necessary …

MicroRNAs and small interfering RNAs can inhibit mRNA expression by similar mechanisms

Y Zeng, R Yi, BR Cullen - Proceedings of the National …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously encoded small noncoding RNAs, derived by
processing of short RNA hairpins, that can inhibit the translation of mRNAs bearing partially …

Principles and effects of microRNA-mediated post-transcriptional gene regulation

BM Engels, G Hutvagner - Oncogene, 2006 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are abundant regulatory RNAs involved in the regulation of many key
biological processes. Recent advances in understanding the mechanism of RNA …

Target-specific requirements for enhancers of decapping in miRNA-mediated gene silencing

A Eulalio, J Rehwinkel, M Stricker… - Genes & …, 2007 - genesdev.cshlp.org
microRNAs (miRNAs) silence gene expression by suppressing protein production and/or by
promoting mRNA decay. To elucidate how silencing is accomplished, we screened an RNA …

MicroRNA silencing in primates: towards development of novel therapeutics

A Petri, M Lindow, S Kauppinen - Cancer research, 2009 - AACR
MicroRNAs (miRNA) comprise an abundant class of small noncoding RNAs that act as
important posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression. Accumulating evidence …

The guideline of the design and validation of MiRNA mimics

Z Wang - MicroRNA and Cancer: Methods and Protocols, 2011 - Springer
The miRNA mimic technology (miR-Mimic) is an innovative approach for gene silencing.
This approach is to generate nonnatural double-stranded miRNA-like RNA fragments. Such …

MicroRNA: an emerging therapeutic target and intervention tool

Z Liu, A Sall, D Yang - International journal of molecular sciences, 2008 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short non-coding RNAs with posttranscriptional
regulatory functions. To date, more than 600 human miRNAs have been experimentally …

MicroRNA-373 induces expression of genes with complementary promoter sequences

RF Place, LC Li, D Pookot… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Recent studies have shown that microRNA (miRNA) regulates gene expression by
repressing translation or directing sequence-specific degradation of complementary mRNA …