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VIROLOGY
Volume 433, Issue 2, Pages 479-488Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2012.08.039
Keywords
Dicer; TRBP; miR-122; Micro RNA; Hepatitis C virus; Replication; Translation; Argonaute; RNA induced silencing complex; miRNA processing
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- National Science and Engineering Research Council [G9631]
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation [18622]
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MicroRNA-122 (miR-122) promotes Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA stability, accumulation, and translation through hybridization with the 5' untranslated region (5' UTR) of the HCV genome. Depletion of Dicer and TRBP, proteins involved in miRNA biogenesis, reduced HCV RNA accumulation, mature duplex miR-122 abundance, and miR-122 directed mRNA translation suppression, suggesting roles in miR-122 processing. HCV RNA accumulation independent of endogenous mature duplex miR-122 was not affected by Dicer knockdown, suggesting that Dicer is required solely for miR-122 biogenesis, but TRBP knockdown reduced HCV RNA accumulation in this system, suggesting an additional role in supporting HCV RNA accumulation. Mature duplex miR-122 and pre-miR-122 hairpin, but not singl-stranded miR-122 (guide or * strand), augmented HCV RNA accumulation and translation, and Dicer and TRBP were essential for the activity of pre-miR-122 in mouse fibroblasts. Thus, canonical miRNA processing and strand selection is essential for the activity of miR-122 on HCV translation and RNA accumulation. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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