Martin Hart, Fabian Kern, Claudia Fecher-Trost, Lena Krammes, Ernesto Aparicio, Annika Engel, Pascal Hirsch, Viktoria Wagner, Verena Keller, Georges Pierre Schmartz, Stefanie Rheinheimer, Caroline Diener, Ulrike Fischer, Jens Mayer, Markus R Meyer, Veit Flockerzi, Andreas Keller, Eckart Meese
The identification of targetomes remains a challenge given the pleiotropic effect of miRNAs, the limited effects of miRNAs on individual targets, and the sheer number of estimated miRNA-target gene interactions (MTIs), which is around 44,571,700. Currently, targetome identification for single miRNAs relies on computational evidence and functional studies covering smaller numbers of targets. To ensure that the targetome analysis could be experimentally verified by functional assays, we employed a systematic approach and explored the targetomes of four miRNAs (miR-129-5p, miR-129-1-3p, miR-133b, and miR-873-5p) by analyzing 410 predicted target genes, both of which were previously associated with Parkinson's disease (PD)...
April 1, 2024: Experimental & Molecular Medicine