Research
A 5′-uridine amplifies miRNA/miRNA* asymmetry in Drosophila by promoting RNA-induced silencing complex formation
1 Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, 118 route de Narbonne, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier (UPS), F-31000 Toulouse, France
2 Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Eucaryote, 118 route de Narbonne, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), F-31000 Toulouse, France
3 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
Silence 2011, 2:4 doi:10.1186/1758-907X-2-4
Published: 7 June 2011Additional files
Additional file 1:
Figure S1. Caenorhabditis elegans miRNA tend to start with a uridine. Gray, nucleotide frequency at position 1; white, nucleotide frequency at random positions in the miRNA or miRNA* sequence (means ± standard deviation (SD)).
Format: PDF Size: 170KB Download file
This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Additional file 2:
Figure S2. Mouse miRNA tend to start with a uridine. Gray, nucleotide frequency at position 1; white, nucleotide frequency at random positions in the miRNA or miRNA* sequence (means ± SD).
Format: PDF Size: 172KB Download file
This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Additional file 3:
Figure S3. Faithful in vitro reconstitution of miRNA loading. (A and B) miR-2a, let-7, miR-2c and miR-184 are correctly loaded into Ago1 in fly embryo lysate, and a let-7/anti-let-7 small interfering RNA is correctly loaded into Ago2. Left: lysate prepared from embryos from dcr-2L811fsX- and ago2414-mutant mothers; Ago1-depleted and HA-depleted, wild-type embryo lysate-immunodepleted using anti-Ago1 or anti-HA (hemagglutinin epitope) antibody. Lysate was incubated for one hour with 5′-32P-radiolabeled Drosophila melanogaster miR-2a paired with 5′ phosphorylated miR-2a-1*. Single-stranded (ssRNA), 5′-32P-radiolabeled miR-2a was incubated for one hour in embryo lysate. Each sample was cross-linked using 254 nm ultraviolet light. (C and D) miRNA/miRNA* asymmetry is recapitulated in vitro. (E) In S2 cells, pre-miR-2a-1 liberates both miRNA and miRNA*, and both strands are efficiently loaded into RNA-induced silencing complex as we observed in vitro (Figure 3).
Format: PDF Size: 1.6MB Download file
This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Additional file 4:
Figure S4. The Ago2 loading machinery has a moderate effect on miR-184 loading preferences, while it strongly affects miR-184* loading preferences. Left: miR-184 and miR-184* capture assay in dcr-2L811fsX-null mutant embryo lysate. Right: miR-184 and miR-184* capture assay in wild-type lysate.
Format: PDF Size: 159KB Download file
This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Additional file 5:
Figure S5. Identity of miRNA nucleotide 1 affects duplex asymmetry. (A) Changing the 5′-uridine (5′-U) of miR-14 to 5′-adenosine (5′-A) decreased miRNA loading. (B) Changing the 5′-U of miR-184 into 5′-cytidine (5′-C) decreased miRNA loading; mutating it to ribothymidine increased miRNA loading. Changing the 5′-nt of miR-2a (C) or miR-184 (D) into 5′-guanidine (5′-G) decreases miRNA loading (relatively to a 5′-A).
Format: PDF Size: 195KB Download file
This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Additional file 6:
Figure S6. Duplex-specific order of preference on the identity of the first nucleotide. (A) Regardless of the identity of the facing (p19*) nucleotide, miR-2a is better loaded if it starts with a U than if it starts with an A than if it starts with a C (U > A > C). (B) miR-14 is better loaded if it starts with a U or a C than if it starts with an A (U ~ C > A). (C) miR-184 is better loaded if it starts with a ribothymidine than if it starts with a U or an A than if it starts with a C (T > U ~ A > C).
Format: PDF Size: 157KB Download file
This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Additional file 7:
Figure S7. The sequence of the miRNA* 3′ overhang is not responsible for miRNA-specific preferences for nt 1. The modest effect of the identity of the miRNA* 3′-most nucleotide does not correlate with the base-pairing ability of miRNA nt 1 to the miRNA* 3′ terminus.
Format: PDF Size: 125KB Download file
This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Additional file 8:
Figure S8. Structure and sequence features covarying with the identity of miRNA nt 1 in C. elegans and mouse. See Figure 4A legend for details. (A) Covariation in Mus musculus miRNA/miRNA* duplexes. (B) Covariation in C. elegans miRNA/miRNA* duplexes.
Format: PDF Size: 95KB Download file
This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader
Additional file 9:
Figure S9. Pre-miRNA nucleotides flanking miRNA nt 1 are depleted of U. U frequency was measured in pre-miRNA covered by at least 100 reads in the pooled deep-sequencing libraries. The 5′-most nucleotide of mature miRNA is enriched in U (position 0 on the x-axis), while its flanking nucleotides are depleted. The horizontal line indicates the mean U frequency in 100 random sets of nucleotides picked from the corresponding 21-nt segment in the analyzed pre-miRNA. Dashed lines indicate 95% confidence intervals.
Format: PDF Size: 982KB Download file
This file can be viewed with: Adobe Acrobat Reader
