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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 98, Issue 2-4, Pages 94-102Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2019.04.001
Keywords
miRNAs; Sponge effect; RNA-RNA crosstalk; Shared MREs; Competing endogenous RNAs; ceRNETs
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [301149/2012-7]
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Competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) are RNAs that share common miRNA binding sites and compete with each other for the miRNA association at these sites. The observation of this phenomenon in the cells altered the view of the miRNA target RNAs from molecules that are passively controlled by miRNAs to molecules that also modulate the miRNAs activity. In this review, we build a general profile of ceRNAS characteristics in order to facilitate ceRNAs identification by researchers. The information summarized here contains an actualized list of previously reported ceRNAs and classes of RNAs that can participate in this type of interaction, the expression behavior and characteristics of ceRNAs and miRNAs in the context of competition, the influence of the shared MREs/miRNAs numbers and the miRNA binding strength on the competition, reports on competition between RNAs in different subcellular localizations and the concept that ceRNAs may form a huge regulatory network in the cell.
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