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MicroRNA targets: potential candidates for indirect regulation by drugs

DIR@IMTECH: CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology

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Title MicroRNA targets: potential candidates for indirect regulation by drugs
 
Creator Arora, Amit
 
Subject QR Microbiology
 
Description Background: Gene expression is regulated by trans-acting transcription factors and microRNAs (miRNAs) through interactions with their respective cis-regulatory elements. The effects that drugs induce result from complex interactions in pathways downstream from their primary targets. These interactions, from gene regulatory apparatus and from drug-induced pathways, form a complex, multilayered network.

Methods: Knowing that drugs can perturb miRNA expression profiles, a genomewide analysis of drug-induced intronic miRNA perturbations has been presented here.

Results: By comparative analysis of control and drugged data sets from 27 independent gene expression experiments, it was feasible to detect the effect of drugs on miRNA target genes. Signatures of 21 of 28 miRNAs, predicted to be influenced by drug action, were detected.

Conclusion: This study demonstrates that the action of drugs on mRNA expression can be mediated through the combinatorial effects of miRNAs. In addition, transcription factors, through miRNAs within the introns of their target genes, can exert an indirect effect on the expression of distal mRNAs.
 
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Health
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/FPC.0000000000000111
http://crdd.osdd.net/open/1810/
 
Identifier Arora, Amit (2015) MicroRNA targets: potential candidates for indirect regulation by drugs. Pharmacogenetics and Genomics, 25 (3). pp. 107-125. ISSN 1744-6872