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High-throughput validation of ceRNA regulatory networks
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Chiu HS
; Martínez MR
; Bansal M
; Subramanian A
; Golub TR
; Yang X
; Sumazin P
; Califano A
BMC Genomics
2017[May]; 18
(1
): 418
PMID28558729
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BACKGROUND: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play multiple roles in tumor biology.
Interestingly, reports from multiple groups suggest that miRNA targets may be
coupled through competitive stoichiometric sequestration. Specifically,
computational models predicted and experimental assays confirmed that miRNA
activity is dependent on miRNA target abundance, and consequently, changes in the
abundance of some miRNA targets lead to changes to the regulation and abundance
of their other targets. The resulting indirect regulatory influence between miRNA
targets resembles competition and has been dubbed competitive endogenous RNA
(ceRNA). Recent studies have questioned the physiological relevance of ceRNA
interactions, our ability to accurately predict these interactions, and the
number of genes that are impacted by ceRNA interactions in specific cellular
contexts. RESULTS: To address these concerns, we reverse engineered ceRNA
networks (ceRNETs) in breast and prostate adenocarcinomas using context-specific
TCGA profiles, and tested whether ceRNA interactions can predict the effects of
RNAi-mediated gene silencing perturbations in PC3 and MCF7 cells._ENREF_22 Our
results, based on tests of thousands of inferred ceRNA interactions that are
predicted to alter hundreds of cancer genes in each of the two tumor contexts,
confirmed statistically significant effects for half of the predicted targets.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that the expression of a significant fraction of
cancer genes may be regulated by ceRNA interactions in each of the two tumor
contexts.