Mechanisms of miRNA‐mediated gene regulation from common downregulation to mRNA‐specific upregulation

A Valinezhad Orang, R Safaralizadeh… - … journal of genomics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Discovered in 1993, micoRNAs (miRNAs) are now recognized as one of the major
regulatory gene families in eukaryotes. To date, 24521 microRNAs have been discovered …

Identification and consequences of miRNA–target interactions—beyond repression of gene expression

J Hausser, M Zavolan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Comparative genomics analyses and high-throughput experimental studies indicate that a
microRNA (miRNA) binds to hundreds of sites across the transcriptome. Although the …

Assessing the ceRNA hypothesis with quantitative measurements of miRNA and target abundance

R Denzler, V Agarwal, J Stefano, DP Bartel, M Stoffel - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
Recent studies have reported that competitive endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) can act as
sponges for a microRNA (miRNA) through their binding sites and that changes in ceRNA …

Toehold‐initiated rolling circle amplification for visualizing individual microRNAs in situ in single cells

R Deng, L Tang, Q Tian, Y Wang, L Lin… - Angewandte …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to quantitate and visualize microRNAs (miRNAs) in situ in single cells would
greatly facilitate the elucidation of miRNA‐mediated regulatory circuits and their disease …

Global analyses of the effect of different cellular contexts on microRNA targeting

JW Nam, OS Rissland, D Koppstein, C Abreu-Goodger… - Molecular cell, 2014 - cell.com
MicroRNA (miRNA) regulation clearly impacts animal development, but the extent to which
development—with its resulting diversity of cellular contexts—impacts miRNA regulation is …

Miravirsen (SPC3649) can inhibit the biogenesis of miR-122

LFR Gebert, MAE Rebhan, SEM Crivelli… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short noncoding RNAs, which bind to messenger RNAs and
regulate protein expression. The biosynthesis of miRNAs includes two precursors, a primary …

Epigenetic regulation of the DLK1-MEG3 microRNA cluster in human type 2 diabetic islets

V Kameswaran, NC Bramswig, LB McKenna, M Penn… - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a complex disease characterized by the inability of the
insulin-producing β cells in the endocrine pancreas to overcome insulin resistance in …

MicroRNA-7a regulates pancreatic β cell function

M Latreille, J Hausser, I Stützer… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Dysfunctional microRNA (miRNA) networks contribute to inappropriate responses following
pathological stress and are the underlying cause of several disease conditions. In …

ISMARA: automated modeling of genomic signals as a democracy of regulatory motifs

PJ Balwierz, M Pachkov, P Arnold, AJ Gruber… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Accurate reconstruction of the regulatory networks that control gene expression is one of the
key current challenges in molecular biology. Although gene expression and chromatin state …

TH1/TH2 cell differentiation and molecular signals

Y Zhang, Y Zhang, W Gu, B Sun - T helper cell differentiation and their …, 2014 - Springer
The distinctive differentiated states of the CD4+ T helper cells are determined by the set of
transcription factors and the genes transcribed by the transcription factors. In vitro induction …