由microRNAs诱导的蛋白质合成的广泛变化
Matthias Selbach1, Björn Schwanhäusser, Nadine Thierfelder
1Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle Str. 10, D-13125 Berlin, Germany. matthias.selbach@mdc-berlin.de
Nature
|August 1, 2008
概括
微RNAs (miRNAs) 在全球范围内通过影响翻译来调节蛋白质合成,而不仅仅是mRNA水平. 这项研究揭示了miRNAs可以微调数千个基因的蛋白质生产.
科学领域:
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 遗传学 遗传学 是一个
- 蛋白质组学是指蛋白质组学.
背景情况:
- 动物微RNAs (miRNAs) 是已知的基因表达的调节者,主要通过mRNA降解或翻译抑制.
- 由miRNAs施加的全基因组翻译控制的程度在很大程度上仍未被描述.
研究的目的:
- 在全基因组范围内使用一种新的蛋白质基因方法量化评估miRNAs对蛋白质合成的影响.
- 研究miRNA活动,mRNA水平和蛋白质生产之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 利用蛋白质组技术测量miRNA转染或敲击后的蛋白质合成变化.
- 使用微阵列同时量化mRNA水平.
- 分析了影响蛋白质合成抑制的miRNA结合部位特征.
主要成果:
- 一个单一的miRNA可以抑制数百种蛋白质的产生,尽管通常具有轻微的影响.
- 除了种子序列之外,确定了特定的目标序列特征,这些特征影响了miRNA介导的人类蛋白质合成的抑制.
- 证明miRNAs直接抑制数百个基因的翻译,除了影响mRNA水平外.
结论:
- 在全基因组范围内,miRNAs对蛋白质合成具有显著的翻译控制.
- miRNAs可以通过直接和间接的机制调节成千上万个基因的蛋白质输出.
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