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Developmental microRNA expression profiling of murine embryonic orofacial tissue

✍ Scribed by Partha Mukhopadhyay; Guy Brock; Vasyl Pihur; Cynthia Webb; M. Michele Pisano; Robert M. Greene

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
1011 KB
Volume
88
Category
Article
ISSN
1542-0752

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Orofacial development is a multifaceted process involving precise, spatio‐temporal expression of a panoply of genes. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), the largest family of noncoding RNAs involved in gene silencing, represent critical regulators of cell and tissue differentiation. MicroRNA gene expression profiling is an effective means of acquiring novel and valuable information regarding the expression and regulation of genes, under the control of miRNA, involved in mammalian orofacial development. METHODS: To identify differentially expressed miRNAs during mammalian orofacial ontogenesis, miRNA expression profiles from gestation day (GD) ‐12, ‐13 and ‐14 murine orofacial tissue were compared utilizing miRXplore microarrays from Miltenyi Biotech. Quantitative real‐time PCR was utilized for validation of gene expression changes. Cluster analysis of the microarray data was conducted with the clValid R package and the UPGMA clustering method. Functional relationships between selected miRNAs were investigated using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis. RESULTS: Expression of over 26% of the 588 murine miRNA genes examined was detected in murine orofacial tissues from GD‐12–GD‐14. Among these expressed genes, several clusters were seen to be developmentally regulated. Differential expression of miRNAs within such clusters wereshown to target genes encoding proteins involved in cell proliferation, cell adhesion, differentiation, apoptosis and epithelial‐mesenchymal transformation, all processes critical for normal orofacial development. CONCLUSIONS: Using miRNA microarray technology, unique gene expression signatures of hundreds of miRNAs in embryonic orofacial tissue were defined. Gene targeting and functional analysis revealed that the expression of numerous protein‐encoding genes, crucial to normal orofacial ontogeny, may be regulated by specific miRNAs. Birth Defects Research (Part A), 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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