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Thomas Jefferson University; 3' untranslated region; Article; cancer cell; controlled study; gene; gene targeting; guide strand; human; human cell; nucleotide binding site; passenger strand; PDCD4 gene; protein expression; PTEN gene; RNA sequence; RNA structure; sequence homology; triple negative breast cancer
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Non-Specific Blocking Of Mir-17-5p Guide Strand In Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells By Amplifying Passenger Strand Activity., Yuan-Yuan Jin, Jade Andrade, Eric Wickstrom
Non-Specific Blocking Of Mir-17-5p Guide Strand In Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells By Amplifying Passenger Strand Activity., Yuan-Yuan Jin, Jade Andrade, Eric Wickstrom
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers
Conventional wisdom holds that only one of the two strands in a micro ribonucleic acid (miRNA) precursor duplex is selected as the active miRNA guide strand. The complementary miRNA passenger strand, however, is thought to be inactive. High levels of the oncogenic miRNA (oncomiR) guide strand called miR-17-5p is overexpressed in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) and can inhibit ribosomal translation of tumor suppressor gene mRNAs, such as programmed cell death 4 (PDCD4) or phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN). We hypothesized that knocking down the oncogenic microRNA (oncomiR) miR-17-5p might restore the expression levels of PDCD4 and PTEN tumor suppressor …