Predicting potential miRNA target sites within gene promoters

ST Younger, A Pertsemlidis, DR Corey - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry …, 2009 - Elsevier
Synthetic small duplex RNAs that are complementary to gene promoters can activate or
inhibit target gene expression. The potency and robustness of gene modulation by these …

Transcriptional gene silencing in mammalian cells by miRNA mimics that target gene promoters

ST Younger, DR Corey - Nucleic acids research, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic small duplex RNAs that are fully complementary to gene promoters can silence
transcription in mammalian cells. microRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small regulatory …

Transcriptional regulation by miRNA mimics that target sequences downstream of gene termini

ST Younger, DR Corey - Molecular BioSystems, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Transcriptome studies have revealed that protein-coding loci within the human genome are
overlapped at their 3′-termini by noncoding RNA (ncRNA) transcripts. Small duplex RNAs …

A novel method to detect functional microRNA targets

S Vatolin, K Navaratne, RJ Weil - Journal of molecular biology, 2006 - Elsevier
MicroRNA (miRNA) molecules are non-coding RNAs, 19 to 24nt in length that have been
identified recently as important regulators of gene expression. Several computational …

Passenger strand loading in overexpression experiments using microRNA mimics

R Søkilde, I Newie, H Persson, Å Borg, C Rovira - RNA biology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important regulators of gene function and manipulation of miRNAs
is a central component of basic research. Modulation of gene expression by miRNA gain-of …

Desperately seeking microRNA targets

M Thomas, J Lieberman, A Lal - Nature structural & molecular biology, 2010 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) suppress gene expression by inhibiting translation, promoting mRNA
decay or both. Each miRNA may regulate hundreds of genes to control the cell's response to …

Conserved expression patterns predict microRNA targets

W Ritchie, M Rajasekhar, S Flamant… - PLoS computational …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
microRNAs (miRNAs) are major regulators of gene expression and thereby modulate many
biological processes. Computational methods have been instrumental in understanding how …

MicroRNAs: key participants in gene regulatory networks

XS Ke, CM Liu, DP Liu, CC Liang - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2003 - Elsevier
microRNAs (miRNAs) are a newly identified and surprisingly large class of endogenous tiny
regulatory RNAs. They exhibit various expressional patterns and are highly conserved …

LNA-modified oligonucleotides mediate specific inhibition of microRNA function

UA Ørom, S Kauppinen, AH Lund - Gene, 2006 - Elsevier
microRNAs are short, endogenous non-coding RNAs that act as post-transcriptional
modulators of gene expression. Important functions for microRNAs have been found in the …

Unraveling the determinants of microRNA mediated regulation using a massively parallel reporter assay

I Vainberg Slutskin, S Weingarten-Gabbay… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite extensive research, the sequence features affecting microRNA-mediated regulation
are not well understood, limiting our ability to predict gene expression levels in both native …