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MicroRNA-mediated up-regulation of an alternatively polyadenylated variant of the mouse cytoplasmic b-actin gene

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Title MicroRNA-mediated up-regulation of an alternatively polyadenylated variant of the mouse cytoplasmic b-actin gene
 
Creator Ghosh, Tanay
Soni, Kartik
Scaria, Vinod
Halimani, Mahantappa
Bhattacharjee, Chaitali
Pillai, Beena
 
Subject G1 Genome informatics (General)
 
Description Actin is a major cytoskeletal protein in eukaryotes. Recent studies suggest more diverse functional roles for this protein. Actin mRNA is known to be localized to neuronal synapses and undergoes rapid deadenylation during early developmental stages. However, its 3′-untranslated region (UTR) is not characterized and there are no experimentally determined polyadenylation (polyA) sites in actin mRNA. We have found that the cytoplasmic β-actin (Actb) gene generates two alternative transcripts terminated at tandem polyA sites. We used 3′-RACE, EST end analysis and in situ hybridization to unambiguously establish the existence of two 3′-UTRs of varying length in Actb transcript in mouse neuronal cells. Further analyses showed that these two tandem polyA sites are used in a tissue-specific manner. Although the longer 3′-UTR was expressed at a relatively lower level, it conferred higher translational efficiency to the transcript. The longer transcript harbours a conserved mmu-miR-34a/34b-5p target site. Sequence-specific anti-miRNA molecule, mutations of the miRNA target region in the 3′-UTR resulted in reduced expression. The expression was restored by a mutant miRNA complementary to the mutated target region implying that miR-34 binding to Actb 3′-UTR up-regulates target gene expression. Heterogeneity of the Actb 3′-UTR could shed light on the mechanism of miRNA-mediated regulation of messages in neuronal cells.
 
Date 2008-10-03
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://openaccess.igib.res.in/103/1/Nucl.%20Acids%20Res.%2D2008%2DGhosh%2D6318%2D32.pdf
Ghosh, Tanay and Soni, Kartik and Scaria, Vinod and Halimani, Mahantappa and Bhattacharjee, Chaitali and Pillai, Beena (2008) MicroRNA-mediated up-regulation of an alternatively polyadenylated variant of the mouse cytoplasmic b-actin gene. PubMed, 36 (19). pp. 6318-6332.
 
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