MicroRNA degradation by a conserved target RNA regulates animal behavior

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Angelo BitettiAlena Shkumatava

Abstract

microRNAs (miRNAs) repress target transcripts through partial complementarity. By contrast, highly complementary miRNA-binding sites within viral and artificially engineered transcripts induce miRNA degradation in vitro and in cell lines. Here, we show that a genome-encoded transcript harboring a near-perfect and deeply conserved miRNA-binding site for miR-29 controls zebrafish and mouse behavior. This transcript originated in basal vertebrates as a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) and evolved to the protein-coding gene NREP in mammals, where the miR-29-binding site is located within the 3' UTR. We show that the near-perfect miRNA site selectively triggers miR-29b destabilization through 3' trimming and restricts its spatial expression in the cerebellum. Genetic disruption of the miR-29 site within mouse Nrep results in ectopic expression of cerebellar miR-29b and impaired coordination and motor learning. Thus, we demonstrate an endogenous target-RNA-directed miRNA degradation event and its requirement for animal behavior.

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Datasets Mentioned

BETA
GSE98707

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BETA
PCR
genotyping
RNA-seq

Software Mentioned

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chimiRa
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MrBayes
Excel
libra
UCSC
StatView
DESeq2

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