[-癌-] microRNAs and their putative target …
標題：A dictionary on microRNAs and their putative target pathways
(有關microRNA的資訊)
Christina Backes(1), Eckart Meese(2), Hans-Peter Lenhof(1) and
Andreas Keller(3).
(1)Center for Bioinformatics, Saarland University
(2)Department of Human Genetics, Saarland University
(3)The Biomarker Discovery Center Heidelberg, Germany
Received December 31,2009.Revised February 24, 2010. Accepted February 27,2010.
While in the last decade mRNA expression profiling was among the most popular
research areas, over the past years the study of non-coding RNAs, especially
microRNAs (miRNAs), has gained increasing interest. For almost 900 known
human miRNAs hundreds of pretended targets are known. However, there is only
limited knowledge about putative systemic effects of changes in the
expression of miRNAs and their regulatory influence. We determined for each
known miRNA the biochemical pathways in the KEGG and TRANSPATH database and
the Gene Ontology categories that are enriched with respect to its target
genes. We refer to these pathways and categories as target pathways of the
corresponding miRNA. Investigating target pathways of miRNAs we found a
strong relation to disease-related regulatory pathways, including
mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling cascade, Transforming
growth factor (TGF)-beta signaling pathway or the p53 network. Performing a
sophisticated analysis of differentially expressed genes of 13 cancer data
sets extracted from gene expression omnibus (GEO) showed that targets of
specific miRNAs were significantly deregulated in these sets. The respective
miRNA target analysis is also a novel part of our gene set analysis pipeline
GeneTrail. Our study represents a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the
relationship between miRNAs and their predicted target pathways. Our target
pathways analysis provides a ‘miRNA-target pathway’ dictionary, which
enables researchers to identify target pathways of differentially regulated
miRNAs.
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The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, the last two authors
should be regarded as joint First Authors.
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