title: Impact of miRNA sequence on miRNA expression and correlation between miRNA expression and cell cycle regulation in breast cancer cells.
abstract: The miRNAs regulate cell functions by inhibiting expression of proteins. Research on miRNAs had usually focused on identifying targets by base pairing between miRNAs and their targets. Instead of identifying targets, this paper proposed an innovative approach, namely impact significance analysis, to study the correlation between mature sequence, expression across patient samples or time and global function on cell cycle signaling of miRNAs. With three distinct types of data: The Cancer Genome Atlas miRNA expression data for 354 human breast cancer specimens, microarray of 266 miRNAs in mouse Embryonic Stem cells (ESCs), and Reverse Phase Protein Array (RPPA) transfected by 776 miRNAs in MDA-MB-231 cell line, we linked the expression and function of miRNAs by their mature sequence and discovered systematically that the similarity of miRNA expression enhances the similarity of miRNA function, which indicates the miRNA expression can be used as a supplementary factor to predict miRNA function. The results also show that both seed region and 3' portion are associated with miRNA expression levels across human breast cancer specimens and in ESCs; miRNAs with similar seed tend to have similar 3' portion. And we discussed that the impact of 3' portion, including nucleotides 13-16, is not significant for miRNA function. These results provide novel insights to understand the correlation between miRNA sequence, expression and function. They can be applied to improve the prediction algorithm and the impact significance analysis can also be implemented to similar analysis for other small RNAs such as siRNAs.
authors.affiliation: Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Zijun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Azencott
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D002453:Cell Cycle; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D035683:MicroRNAs
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