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 …

Tiny giants of gene regulation: experimental strategies for microRNA functional studies

BR Steinkraus, M Toegel… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery over two decades ago of short regulatory microRNAs (miRNAs) has led to the
inception of a vast biomedical research field dedicated to understanding these powerful …

MicroRNA targeting specificity in mammals: determinants beyond seed pairing

A Grimson, KKH Farh, WK Johnston, P Garrett-Engele… - Molecular cell, 2007 - cell.com
Mammalian microRNAs (miRNAs) pair to 3′ UTRs of mRNAs to direct their
posttranscriptional repression. Important for target recognition are∼ 7 nt sites that match the …

microRNA control of cell-cell signaling during development and disease

JW Hagen, EC Lai - Cell Cycle, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are critical post-transcriptional regulators that may collectively control
a majority of animal genes. With thousands of miRNAs identified, a pressing challenge is …

Predicting microRNA targeting efficacy in Drosophila

V Agarwal, AO Subtelny, P Thiru, I Ulitsky, DP Bartel - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short regulatory RNAs that derive from hairpin
precursors. Important for understanding the functional roles of miRNAs is the ability to …

MicroRNAs: from mechanism to organism

PJ Dexheimer, L Cochella - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, regulatory RNAs that act as post-transcriptional repressors
of gene expression in diverse biological contexts. The emergence of small RNA-mediated …

Animal MicroRNAs confer robustness to gene expression and have a significant impact on 3′ UTR evolution

A Stark, J Brennecke, N Bushati, RB Russell… - Cell, 2005 - cell.com
MicroRNAs are small noncoding RNAs that serve as posttranscriptional regulators of gene
expression in higher eukaryotes. Their widespread and important role in animals is …

Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs

V Agarwal, GW Bell, JW Nam, DP Bartel - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
MicroRNA targets are often recognized through pairing between the miRNA seed region
and complementary sites within target mRNAs, but not all of these canonical sites are …

Widespread regulatory activity of vertebrate microRNA* species

JS Yang, MD Phillips, D Betel, P Mu, A Ventura… - Rna, 2011 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
An obligate intermediate during microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis is an∼ 22-nucleotide RNA
duplex, from which the mature miRNA is preferentially incorporated into a silencing complex …

Coherent but overlapping expression of microRNAs and their targets during vertebrate development

A Shkumatava, A Stark, H Sive… - Genes & …, 2009 - genesdev.cshlp.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that direct post-transcriptional repression
of protein-coding genes. In vertebrates, each highly conserved miRNA typically regulates …