Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

microRNA arm-imbalance in part from complementary targets mediated decay promotes gastric cancer progression

  • Zhengyi Zhang,
  • Jingnan Pi,
  • Dongling Zou,
  • Xiaoshuang Wang,
  • Jiayue Xu,
  • Shan Yu,
  • Ting Zhang,
  • Feng Li,
  • Xianxie Zhang,
  • Hualu Zhao,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Dong Wang,
  • Yanni Ma,
  • Jia Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12292-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Functional miRNAs derived from the 5p or 3p arm of some miRNA duplexes have opposite roles in cancer progression. Here, the authors show that oncogenic miR-574-5p has greater preference in aggressive gastric cancer as compared with miR-574-3p and this arm preference is partly dependent on complementary targets mediated miRNA decay.