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INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue 11, Pages 1009-1014Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2013.08.003
Keywords
Atrophin; miR-8; Argonaute; miRNA passenger strand; Blattella; Drosophila; Metamorphosis
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- Spanish Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [CGL2008-03517/BOS, BFU2010-21123, CSD2007-00008]
- FEDER funds
- CSIC [2010TW0019]
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In Drosophila melanogaster, miR-8-3p regulates mRNA levels of atrophin, a factor involved in neuromotor coordination, and we found that Blattella germanica with suppressed atrophin showed motor problems. Bionformatic predictions and luciferase-reporter tests indicated that B. germanica atrophin mRNA contains target sites for miR-8-3p and miR-8-5p. Suppression of miR-8-3p or miR-8-5p appeared to increase atrophin mRNA. The effects of suppression of Argonaute (AGO) 1 or AGO2 expression on miR-8-3p and miR-8-5p suggested that miR-8-3-p might predominantly bind to AGO1, whereas miR-8-5p might bind to a moderate extent to both AGO1 and AGO2 in the respective RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISCs). We propose that the interplay of miR-8-3p, miR-8-5p, AGO1 and AGO2, maintain the appropriate levels of atrophin mRNA. This would be the first example of two strands of the same miRNA precursor regulating a single transcript. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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