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Andrea Zeni1,2, Margherita Grasso1,3, Michela A Denti4
1Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology-CIBIO, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|October 25, 2021
Abstract:
microRNA capture affinity technology (miR-CATCH) uses affinity capture biotinylated antisense oligonucleotides to co-purify a target transcript together with all its endogenously bound miRNAs. The miR-CATCH assay is performed to investigate miRNAs bound to a specific mRNA. This method allows to have a total vision of miRNAs bound not only to the 3'UTR but also to the 5'UTR and Coding Region of target messenger RNAs (mRNAs).

