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MicroRNA-7a regulates Müller glia differentiation by attenuating Notch3 expression.
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Experimental Eye Research . Sep2015, Vol. 138, p59-65. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- miRNA-7a plays critical roles in various biological aspects in health and disease. We aimed to reveal roles of miR-7a in mouse retinal development by loss- and gain-of-function analyses of miR-7a. Plasmids encoding miR-7a or miR-7a-decoy (anti-sense miR-7a) were introduced into mouse retina at P0, and the retina was cultured as explant. Then, proliferation of retinal progenitors and differentiation of retinal subtypes were examined by immunostaining. miR-7a had no apparent effect on the proliferation of retinal progenitor cells. However, the expression of Müller glia marker, cyclin D3, was reduced by miR-7a overexpression and up-regulated by miR-7a decoy, suggesting that miR-7a negatively regulates differentiation of Müller glia. Targets of miR-7a, which were predicted by using a public program miRNA.org, and Notch3 was suggested to be one of candidate genes of miR-7a target. Notch3 3' UTR appeared to contain complementary sequence to the seed sequence of miR-7a. A reporter assay in NIH3T3 cells using a plasmid containing multiple repeats of potential target sequence of 3' Notch UTR showed that miR-7a suppress expression of reporter EGFP through 3'UTR region. Expression of sh-Notch3 and over-expression of NICD3 in retina suggested that miR-7a regulates Müller glia differentiation through attenuation of Notch3 expression. Taken together, we revealed that the miR-7a regulates the differentiation of Müller glia through the suppression of Notch3 expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00144835
- Volume :
- 138
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Experimental Eye Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 109232699
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exer.2015.06.022