PUBLICATION

Quantitative Proteomics Analysis Reveals Novel Targets of miR-21 in Zebrafish Embryos

Authors
Wu, Y., Lou, Q.Y., Ge, F., Xiong, Q.
ID
ZDB-PUB-170624-11
Date
2017
Source
Scientific Reports   7: 4022 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Keywords
miRNAs, Proteomics
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Computational Biology/methods
  • Embryo, Nonmammalian
  • Embryonic Development/genetics*
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
  • Gene Knockdown Techniques
  • Male
  • MicroRNAs*
  • Proteomics*/methods
  • RNA Interference
  • RNA, Messenger/genetics
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Zebrafish/embryology
  • Zebrafish/genetics*
  • Zebrafish/metabolism*
PubMed
28642470 Full text @ Sci. Rep.
Abstract
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are noncoding RNAs which control gene expression by the suppression of translation or the degradation of mRNAs. Dre-miR-21 (miR-21) has been reported to impact cardiac valvulogenesis in zebrafish embryos. However, the target genes of miR-21 are still largely unknown. Here a tandem isobaric mass tag (TMT)-based quantitative proteomic strategy was employed to identify the global profile of miR-21-regulated proteins. A total of 251 proteins were dysregulated after miR-21 knockdown, suggesting that they may be regulated by miR-21. Bioinformatics analysis indicated that these differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) participate in various biological processes, suggesting that miR-21 may be involved in diverse cellular pathways. Sixteen DEPs were also predicted to be miR-21 targets by at least two algorithms, and several candidate target genes were selected for further luciferase reporter analysis. The results showed that genes encoding tropomyosin 1 (tpm1) and poly(rC) binding protein 2 (pcbp2) are direct miR-21 targets. Taken together, our results not only reveal a large number of novel miR-21 regulated proteins that possess pleiotropic functions, but also provide novel insights into the molecular mechanisms of miR-21 regulation of zebrafish cardiac valvulogenesis and embryonic development.
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Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping