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Škrlec I. Circadian system microRNAs - Role in the development of cardiovascular diseases. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2023; 137:225-267. [PMID: 37709378 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2023.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
Abstract
Circadian rhythm regulates numerous physiological processes, and disruption of the circadian clock can lead to cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Small non-coding RNAs, microRNAs (miRNAs), are involved in regulating gene expression, both those important for the cardiovascular system and key circadian clock genes. Epigenetic mechanisms based on miRNAs are essential for fine-tuning circadian physiology. Indeed, some miRNAs depend on circadian periodicity, others are under the influence of light, and still others are under the influence of core clock genes. Dysregulation of miRNAs involved in circadian rhythm modulation has been associated with inflammatory conditions of the endothelium and atherosclerosis, which can lead to coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction. Epigenetic processes are reversible through their association with environmental factors, enabling innovative preventive and therapeutic strategies for cardiovascular disease. Here, is a review of recent findings on how miRNAs modulate circadian rhythm desynchronization in cardiovascular disease. In the era of personalized medicine, the possibility of treatment with miRNA antagomirs should be time-dependent to correspond to chronotherapy and achieve the most significant efficacy.
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- Ivana Škrlec
- Faculty of Dental Medicine and Health, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia.
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Vargas JA, Finnemann SC. Differences in Diurnal Rhythm of Rod Outer Segment Renewal between 129T2/SvEmsJ and C57BL/6J Mice. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23169466. [PMID: 36012733 PMCID: PMC9408929 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23169466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Revised: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In all mammalian species tested to date, rod photoreceptor outer segment renewal is a circadian process synchronized by light with a burst of outer segment fragment (POS) shedding and POS phagocytosis by the adjacent retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) every morning at light onset. Recent reports show that RPE phagocytosis also increases shortly after dark onset in C57BL/6 (C57) mice. Genetic differences between C57 mice and 129T2/SvEmsJ (129) mice may affect regulation of outer segment renewal. Here, we used quantitative methods to directly compare outer segment renewal in C57 and 129 mouse retina. Quantification of rhodopsin-positive phagosomes in the RPE showed that in 129 mice, rod POS phagocytosis after light onset was significantly increased compared to C57 mice, but that 129 mice did not show a second peak after dark onset. Cone POS phagosome content of RPE cells did not differ by mouse strain with higher phagosome numbers after light than after dark. We further quantified externalization of the "eat me" signal phosphatidylserine by outer segment tips, which precedes POS phagocytosis. Live imaging of retina ex vivo showed that rod outer segments extended PS exposure in both strains but that frequency of outer segments with exposed PS after light onset was lower in C57 than in 129 retina. Taken together, 129 mice lacked a burst of rod outer segment renewal after dark onset. The increases in rod outer segment renewal after light and after dark onset in C57 mice were attenuated compared to the peak after light onset in 129 mice, suggesting an impairment in rhythmicity in C57 mice.
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Yamaguchi Y, Murai I, Takeda M, Doi S, Seta T, Hanada R, Kangawa K, Okamura H, Miyake T, Doi M. <i>Nmu</i>/<i>Nms</i>/<i>Gpr176</i> Triple-Deficient Mice Show Enhanced Light-Resetting of Circadian Locomotor Activity. Biol Pharm Bull 2022; 45:1172-1179. [DOI: 10.1248/bpb.b22-00260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- Yoshiaki Yamaguchi
- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University
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- Department of Biochemistry, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University
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- Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University
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Cao F, Ralph MR, Stinchcombe AR. A Phenomenological Mouse Circadian Pacemaker Model. J Biol Rhythms 2022; 37:329-342. [PMID: 35485260 PMCID: PMC9160958 DOI: 10.1177/07487304221085455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mathematical models have been used extensively in chronobiology to explore characteristics of biological clocks. In particular, for human circadian studies, the Kronauer model has been modified multiple times to describe rhythm production and responses to sensory input. This phenomenological model comprises a single set of parameters which can simulate circadian responses in humans under a variety of environmental conditions. However, corresponding models for nocturnal rodents commonly used in circadian rhythm studies are not available and may require new parameter values for different species and even strains. Moreover, due to a considerable variation in experimental data collected from mice of the same strain, within and across laboratories, a range of valid parameters is essential. This study develops a Kronauer-like model for mice by re-fitting relevant parameters to published phase response curve and period data using total least squares. Local parameter sensitivity analysis and parameter distributions determine the parameter ranges that give a near-identical model and data distribution of periods. However, the model required further parameter adjustments to match characteristics of other mouse strains, implying that the model itself detects changes in the core processes of rhythm generation and control. The model is a useful tool to understand and interpret future mouse circadian clock experiments.
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- Federico Cao
- Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Saad L, Zwiller J, Kalsbeek A, Anglard P. Epigenetic Regulation of Circadian Clocks and Its Involvement in Drug Addiction. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:1263. [PMID: 34440437 PMCID: PMC8394526 DOI: 10.3390/genes12081263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Based on studies describing an increased prevalence of addictive behaviours in several rare sleep disorders and shift workers, a relationship between circadian rhythms and addiction has been hinted for more than a decade. Although circadian rhythm alterations and molecular mechanisms associated with neuropsychiatric conditions are an area of active investigation, success is limited so far, and further investigations are required. Thus, even though compelling evidence connects the circadian clock to addictive behaviour and vice-versa, yet the functional mechanism behind this interaction remains largely unknown. At the molecular level, multiple mechanisms have been proposed to link the circadian timing system to addiction. The molecular mechanism of the circadian clock consists of a transcriptional/translational feedback system, with several regulatory loops, that are also intricately regulated at the epigenetic level. Interestingly, the epigenetic landscape shows profound changes in the addictive brain, with significant alterations in histone modification, DNA methylation, and small regulatory RNAs. The combination of these two observations raises the possibility that epigenetic regulation is a common plot linking the circadian clocks with addiction, though very little evidence has been reported to date. This review provides an elaborate overview of the circadian system and its involvement in addiction, and we hypothesise a possible connection at the epigenetic level that could further link them. Therefore, we think this review may further improve our understanding of the etiology or/and pathology of psychiatric disorders related to drug addiction.
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- Lamis Saad
- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), UMR 7364 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Neuropôle de Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France; (L.S.); (J.Z.)
- The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), UMR 7364 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Neuropôle de Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France; (L.S.); (J.Z.)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 75016 Paris, France
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- The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives (LNCA), UMR 7364 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg, Neuropôle de Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France; (L.S.); (J.Z.)
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), 75013 Paris, France
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Bormann D, Stojanovic T, Cicvaric A, Schuld GJ, Cabatic M, Ankersmit HJ, Monje FJ. miRNA-132/212 Gene-Deletion Aggravates the Effect of Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation on Synaptic Functions in the Female Mouse Hippocampus. Cells 2021; 10:1709. [PMID: 34359879 PMCID: PMC8306255 DOI: 10.3390/cells10071709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Cerebral ischemia and its sequelae, which include memory impairment, constitute a leading cause of disability worldwide. Micro-RNAs (miRNA) are evolutionarily conserved short-length/noncoding RNA molecules recently implicated in adaptive/maladaptive neuronal responses to ischemia. Previous research independently implicated the miRNA-132/212 cluster in cholinergic signaling and synaptic transmission, and in adaptive/protective mechanisms of neuronal responses to hypoxia. However, the putative role of miRNA-132/212 in the response of synaptic transmission to ischemia remained unexplored. Using hippocampal slices from female miRNA-132/212 double-knockout mice in an established electrophysiological model of ischemia, we here describe that miRNA-132/212 gene-deletion aggravated the deleterious effect of repeated oxygen-glucose deprivation insults on synaptic transmission in the dentate gyrus, a brain region crucial for learning and memory functions. We also examined the effect of miRNA-132/212 gene-deletion on the expression of key mediators in cholinergic signaling that are implicated in both adaptive responses to ischemia and hippocampal neural signaling. miRNA-132/212 gene-deletion significantly altered hippocampal AChE and mAChR-M1, but not α7-nAChR or MeCP2 expression. The effects of miRNA-132/212 gene-deletion on hippocampal synaptic transmission and levels of cholinergic-signaling elements suggest the existence of a miRNA-132/212-dependent adaptive mechanism safeguarding the functional integrity of synaptic functions in the acute phase of cerebral ischemia.
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- Daniel Bormann
- Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Schwarzspanierstraße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria; (D.B.); (T.S.); (G.J.S.); (M.C.)
- Laboratory for Cardiac and Thoracic Diagnosis, Department of Surgery, Regeneration and Applied Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Research Laboratories Vienna General Hospital, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria;
- Division of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Schwarzspanierstraße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria; (D.B.); (T.S.); (G.J.S.); (M.C.)
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY 10461, USA;
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- Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Schwarzspanierstraße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria; (D.B.); (T.S.); (G.J.S.); (M.C.)
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- Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Schwarzspanierstraße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria; (D.B.); (T.S.); (G.J.S.); (M.C.)
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- Laboratory for Cardiac and Thoracic Diagnosis, Department of Surgery, Regeneration and Applied Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Research Laboratories Vienna General Hospital, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria;
- Division of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria
- Aposcience AG, Dresdner Straße 87/A 21, 1200 Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Schwarzspanierstraße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria; (D.B.); (T.S.); (G.J.S.); (M.C.)
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Ahmad SF, Shanaz S, Kumar A, Dar AH, Mohmad A, Bhushan B. Crosstalk of epigenetics with biological rhythmicity in animal kingdom. BIOL RHYTHM RES 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/09291016.2019.1607218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Sheikh Firdous Ahmad
- Division of Animal Genetics, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, India
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- Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Sher-i-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, India
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- Division of Animal Reproduction, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, India
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- Department of Livestock Production and Management, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand
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- Division of Parasitology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, India
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- Division of Animal Genetics, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, India
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Ma Q, Mo G, Tan Y. Micro RNAs and the biological clock: a target for diseases associated with a loss of circadian regulation. Afr Health Sci 2020; 20:1887-1894. [PMID: 34394254 PMCID: PMC8351835 DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v20i4.46] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background Circadian clocks are self-sustaining oscillators that coordinate behavior and physiology over a 24 hour period, achieving time-dependent homeostasis with the external environment. The molecular clocks driving circadian rhythmic changes are based on intertwined transcriptional/translational feedback loops that combine with a range of environmental and metabolic stimuli to generate daily internal programing. Understanding how biological rhythms are generated throughout the body and the reasons for their dysregulation can provide avenues for temporally directed therapeutics. Summary In recent years, microRNAs have been shown to play important roles in the regulation of the circadian clock, particularly in Drosophila, but also in some small animal and human studies. This review will summarize our current understanding of the role of miRNAs during clock regulation, with a particular focus on the control of clock regulated gene expression.
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- Qianwen Ma
- Gynecology department, Zhenjiang Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine (Zhenjiang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine), Zhenjiang, China
- Reproductive medicine department, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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- Advanced manufacturing institution, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
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- Reproductive medicine department, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China
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Nieto PS, Condat CA. Translational thresholds in a core circadian clock model. Phys Rev E 2019; 100:022409. [PMID: 31574627 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.022409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Organisms have evolved in a daily cyclic environment, developing circadian cell-autonomous clocks that temporally organize a wide range of biological processes. Translation is a highly regulated process mainly associated with the activity of microRNAs (miRNAs) at the translation initiation step that impacts on the molecular circadian clock dynamics. Recently, a molecular titration mechanism was proposed to explain the interactions between some miRNAs and their target mRNAs; new evidence also indicates that regulation by miRNA is a nonlinear process such that there is a threshold level of target mRNA below which protein production is drastically repressed. These observations led us to use a theoretical model of the circadian molecular clock to study the effect of miRNA-mediated translational thresholds on the molecular clock dynamics. We model the translational threshold by introducing a phenomenological Hill equation for the kinetics of PER translation and show how the parameters associated with translation kinetics affect the period, amplitude, and time delays between clock mRNA and clock protein expression. We show that our results are useful for analyzing experiments related to the translational regulation of negative elements of transcriptional-translational feedback loops. We also provide new elements for thinking about the translational threshold as a mechanism that favors the emergence of circadian rhythmicity, the tuning of the period-delay relationship and the cell capacity to control the protein oscillation amplitude with almost negligible changes in the mRNA amplitudes.
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- Paula S Nieto
- Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola (IFEG)-CONICET and Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, CP:X5000HUA Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola (IFEG)-CONICET and Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, CP:X5000HUA Córdoba, Argentina
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Whittaker K, Burgess R, Jones V, Yang Y, Zhou W, Luo S, Wilson J, Huang R. Quantitative proteomic analyses in blood: A window to human health and disease. J Leukoc Biol 2019; 106:759-775. [PMID: 31329329 DOI: 10.1002/jlb.mr1118-440r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Revised: 04/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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- RayBiotech Life Norcross Georgia USA
- RayBiotech Life Guangzhou Guangdong China
- South China Biochip Research Center Guangzhou Guangdong China
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- RayBiotech Life Norcross Georgia USA
- RayBiotech Life Guangzhou Guangdong China
- South China Biochip Research Center Guangzhou Guangdong China
- Affiliated Cancer Hospital & Institute of Guangzhou Medical UniversityGuangzhou Medical University Guangzhou China
- Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine Guangzhou China
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are ∼22 nt RNAs that direct posttranscriptional repression of mRNA targets in diverse eukaryotic lineages. In humans and other mammals, these small RNAs help sculpt the expression of most mRNAs. This article reviews advances in our understanding of the defining features of metazoan miRNAs and their biogenesis, genomics, and evolution. It then reviews how metazoan miRNAs are regulated, how they recognize and cause repression of their targets, and the biological functions of this repression, with a compilation of knockout phenotypes that shows that important biological functions have been identified for most of the broadly conserved miRNAs of mammals.
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- David P Bartel
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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