Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002242
Title: Conserved regulation of p53 network dosage by microRNA-125b occurs through evolving miRNA-target gene pairs
Authors: Le, M.T.N.
Shyh-Chang, N.
Khaw, S.L.
Chin, L.
Teh, C.
Tay, J.
O'Day, E.
Korzh, V. 
Yang, H.
Lal, A.
Lieberman, J.
Lodish, H.F.
Lim, B.
Issue Date: Sep-2011
Citation: Le, M.T.N., Shyh-Chang, N., Khaw, S.L., Chin, L., Teh, C., Tay, J., O'Day, E., Korzh, V., Yang, H., Lal, A., Lieberman, J., Lodish, H.F., Lim, B. (2011-09). Conserved regulation of p53 network dosage by microRNA-125b occurs through evolving miRNA-target gene pairs. PLoS Genetics 7 (9) : -. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002242
Abstract: MicroRNAs regulate networks of genes to orchestrate cellular functions. MiR-125b, the vertebrate homologue of the Caenorhabditis elegans microRNA lin-4, has been implicated in the regulation of neural and hematopoietic stem cell homeostasis, analogous to how lin-4 regulates stem cells in C. elegans. Depending on the cell context, miR-125b has been proposed to regulate both apoptosis and proliferation. Because the p53 network is a central regulator of both apoptosis and proliferation, the dual roles of miR-125b raise the question of what genes in the p53 network might be regulated by miR-125b. By using a gain- and loss-of-function screen for miR-125b targets in humans, mice, and zebrafish and by validating these targets with the luciferase assay and a novel miRNA pull-down assay, we demonstrate that miR-125b directly represses 20 novel targets in the p53 network. These targets include both apoptosis regulators like Bak1, Igfbp3, Itch, Puma, Prkra, Tp53inp1, Tp53, Zac1, and also cell-cycle regulators like cyclin C, Cdc25c, Cdkn2c, Edn1, Ppp1ca, Sel1l, in the p53 network. We found that, although each miRNA-target pair was seldom conserved, miR-125b regulation of the p53 pathway is conserved at the network level. Our results lead us to propose that miR-125b buffers and fine-tunes p53 network activity by regulating the dose of both proliferative and apoptotic regulators, with implications for tissue stem cell homeostasis and oncogenesis. © 2011 Le T. N. et al.
Source Title: PLoS Genetics
URI: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/100330
ISSN: 15537390
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002242
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