PUBLICATION
Labeled microRNA pull-down assay system: an experimental approach for high-throughput identification of microRNA-target mRNAs
- Authors
- Hsu, R.J., Yang, H.J., and Tsai, H.J.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-090511-13
- Date
- 2009
- Source
- Nucleic acids research 37(10): e77 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Tsai, Huai-Jen
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- 3' Untranslated Regions/chemistry
- Animals
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/genetics
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors/metabolism
- COS Cells
- Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics
- Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolism
- Chlorocebus aethiops
- Immunoprecipitation/methods*
- MicroRNAs/isolation & purification
- MicroRNAs/metabolism*
- Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
- RNA Interference*
- RNA Precursors/isolation & purification
- RNA Precursors/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/chemistry
- RNA, Messenger/isolation & purification
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism*
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 19420057 Full text @ Nucleic Acids Res.
Citation
Hsu, R.J., Yang, H.J., and Tsai, H.J. (2009) Labeled microRNA pull-down assay system: an experimental approach for high-throughput identification of microRNA-target mRNAs. Nucleic acids research. 37(10):e77.
Abstract
We developed a simple, direct and cost-effective approach to search for the most likely target genes of a known microRNA (miRNA) in vitro. We term this method 'labeled miRNA pull-down (LAMP)' assay system. Briefly, the pre-miRNA is labeled with digoxigenin (DIG), mixed with cell extracts and immunoprecipitated by anti-DIG antiserum. When the DIG-labeled miRNA and bound mRNA complex are obtained, the total cDNAs are then subcloned and sequenced, or RT-PCR-amplified, to search for the putative target genes of a known miRNA. After successfully identifying the known target genes of Caenorhabditis elegans miRNAs lin-4 and let-7 and zebrafish let-7, we applied LAMP to find the unknown target gene of zebrafish miR-1, which resulted in the identification of hand2. We then confirmed hand2 as a novel target gene of miR-1 by whole-mount in situ hybridization and luciferase reporter gene assay. We further validated this target gene by microarray analysis, and the results showed that hand2 is the top-scoring among 302 predicted putative target genes. We concluded that LAMP is an experimental approach for high-throughput identification of the target gene of known miRNAs from both C. elegans and zebrafish, yielding fewer false positive results than those produced by using only the bioinformatics approach.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping