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| Journal Article | DKFZ-2025-02393 |
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2019
Springer Nature
[London]
Abstract: MicroRNA (miRNA) biogenesis initiates co-transcriptionally, but how the Microprocessor machinery pinpoints the locations of short precursor miRNA sequences within long flanking regions of the transcript is not known. Here we show that miRNA biogenesis depends on DNA methylation. When the regions flanking the miRNA coding sequence are highly methylated, the miRNAs are more highly expressed, have greater sequence conservation, and are more likely to drive cancer-related phenotypes than miRNAs encoded by unmethylated loci. We show that the removal of DNA methylation from miRNA loci leads to their downregulation. Further, we found that MeCP2 binding to methylated miRNA loci halts RNA polymerase II elongation, leading to enhanced processing of the primary miRNA by Drosha. Taken together, our data reveal that DNA methylation directly affects miRNA biogenesis.
Keyword(s): Animals (MeSH) ; Cell Line (MeSH) ; DNA Methylation (MeSH) ; Humans (MeSH) ; Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2: genetics (MeSH) ; Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2: metabolism (MeSH) ; Mice (MeSH) ; MicroRNAs: genetics (MeSH) ; MicroRNAs: metabolism (MeSH) ; Open Reading Frames (MeSH) ; RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional (MeSH) ; Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2 ; MicroRNAs
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