miRNA was 20~25 nt endogenous non-coding RNA. miRNAs are encoded small RNAs that hybridize with messenger RNAs, resulting in degradation or translational inhibition of targeted transcripts. In order to investigate the function of miR-138 on mouse mammary epithelial cells, technique for gene silencing-miRNA inhibitor (anti-miRNA) was applied to make miR-138 silence, qRT-PCR was showed valid for inhibitor miR-138. And Western blot, CASY®-technology was put in use to study some change of mouse mammary epithelial cells after miR138 inhibitor. It was shown that miR-138 suppresses the exepress of PRL-R(P < 0.05). It was proved that miR-138 can inhibit activity and proliferation of mouse mammary epithelial cells after miR-138 inhibitor(P < 0.01). HPLC was used to study expression of β-casin mouse mammary epithelial cells after miR-138 inhibitor, it shows down express of β-casin(P < 0.05). Results indicated that the target of miR-138 was PRL-R, miR-138 suppresses translation of PRL-R. MiR-138 suppressed the viable and proliferation of mouse mammary epithelial cells.
WANG Chun-Mei, LI Qing-Zhang, LI Ye. miR-138 Function and Its Targets on Mouse Mammary Epithelial Cells[J]. Progress in Biochemistry and Biophysics,2008,35(7):834-838
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