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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 40, 期 16, 页码 7653-7665出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks538
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61073136, 61170154]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20102307110022]
- Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province [JC200711, ZD200816-01, D200834]
- Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province Education Department [1154h12, 11541137, 1055HG009]
Accumulating evidence indicates that microRNAs (miRNAs) can function as oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes by controlling few key targets, which in turn contribute to the pathogenesis of cancer. The identification of cancer-related key miRNA-target interactions remains a challenge. We performed a systematic analysis of known cancer-related key interactions manually curated from published papers based on different aspects including sequence, expression and function. Known cancer-related key interactions show more miRNA binding sites (especially for 8mer binding sites), more reliable binding of miRNA to the target region, higher expression associations and broader functional coverage when compared to non-disease-related interactions. Through integrating these sequence, expression and function features, we proposed a bioinformatics approach termed PCmtI to prioritize cancer-related key interactions. Ten-fold cross-validation of our approach revealed that it can achieve an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 93.9%. Subsequent leave-one-miRNA-out cross-validation also demonstrated the performance of our approach. Using miR-155 as a case, we found that the top ranked interactions can account for most functions of miR-155. In addition, we further demonstrated the power of our approach by 23 recently identified cancer-related key interactions. The approach described here offers a new way for the discovery of novel cancer-related key miRNA-target interactions.
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