Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
Methods. 2012 Oct;58(2):94-105. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2012.08.006. Epub 2012 Aug 19.
miRNAs are short (20-23 nt) RNAs that are loaded into proteins of the Argonaute (AGO) family and guide them to partially complementary target sites on mRNAs, resulting in mRNA destabilization and/or translational repression. It is estimated that about 60% of the mammalian genes are potentially regulated by miRNAs, and therefore methods for experimental miRNA target determination have become valuable tools for the characterization of posttranscriptional gene regulation. Here we present a step-by-step protocol and guidelines for the computational analysis for the large-scale identification of miRNA target sites in cultured cells by photoactivatable ribonucleoside enhanced crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (PAR-CLIP) of AGO proteins.
miRNAs 是短链(20-23 个核苷酸)RNA,可以与 Argonaute(AGO)家族的蛋白质结合,并指导它们与 mRNA 上的部分互补靶位点结合,导致 mRNA 不稳定和/或翻译抑制。据估计,大约 60%的哺乳动物基因可能受到 miRNAs 的调控,因此,实验性 miRNA 靶标确定方法已成为描述转录后基因调控的有价值的工具。这里我们提供了一个分步协议和指南,用于通过 AGO 蛋白的光激活核苷酸增强交联和免疫沉淀(PAR-CLIP)对培养细胞中的 miRNA 靶位点进行大规模鉴定的计算分析。