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MicroRNA Amplification and Recognition through Locked-nucleic-acid In situ Hybridization as a Novel Detection and Quantification Method
Published on: October 7, 2025
[Computational and experimental identification of novel microRNAs in goat.]
Hai-Xuan Chen1, Zhong-Hai Yan, Jian-Er Long
11. Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200040, China; 2. Key Lab of Medical Embryo Molecular Biology, the Ministry of Health; Shanghai Laboratory of Embryo and Reproduction Engineering, Shanghai 200040, China
Abstract:
microRNA (miRNA) is a class of non-coding small RNA molecules with roughly 22 nucleotides in length, regulating gene expression on post-transcriptional level and playing an important role in cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis process. Based on the conservation of miRNAs sequence, we compared the known miRNAs among five mammals, i.e., human, mouse, cattle, pig and dog with the sequence of sheep genome that is highly homologous to goat genome, published on the NCBI, and 11 candidate miRNAs were eventually obtained. RT-PCR analysis showed the expression of the 11 miRNAs in brain and 5 in liver, indicating that they might be novel miRNAs. The methodology provides an alternative approach to the exploration of new miRNAs in goat.
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