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Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs that play important roles in regulating gene expression. The majority of miRNAs are transcribed from DNA sequences into primary miRNAs and processed into precursor miRNAs, and finally mature miRNAs. In most cases, miRNAs interact with the 3' untranslated region (3' UTR) of target mRNAs to induce mRNA degradation and translational repression. However, interaction of miRNAs with other regions, including the 5' UTR, coding sequence, and gene promoters, have also been reported. Under certain conditions, miRNAs can also activate translation or regulate transcription. The interaction of miRNAs with their target genes is dynamic and dependent on many factors, such as subcellular location of miRNAs, the abundancy of miRNAs and target mRNAs, and the affinity of miRNA-mRNA interactions. miRNAs can be secreted into extracellular fluids and transported to target cells via vesicles, such as exosomes, or by binding to proteins, including Argonautes. Extracellular miRNAs function as chemical messengers to mediate cell-cell communication. In this review, we provide an update on canonical and non-canonical miRNA biogenesis pathways and various mechanisms underlying miRNA-mediated gene regulations. We also summarize the current knowledge of the dynamics of miRNA action and of the secretion, transfer, and uptake of extracellular miRNAs.
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This review summarizes microRNA biogenesis, mechanisms of action, dynamic subcellular regulation, and extracellular circulation. It highlights miRNAs as both gene regulators and intercellular signals while noting unresolved questions about nuclear function, translational activation, and secretion/uptake.
Key findings
- Canonical miRNA biogenesis involves pri-miRNA processing by Drosha/DGCR8, export by XPO5/RanGTP, Dicer cleavage into a mature duplex, and loading of the 5p or 3p strand into AGO1–4; non-canonical pathways include Drosha/DGCR8-independent mirtrons and m7G-capped pre-miRNAs, and Dicer-independent AGO2-dependent processing.
- Most miRNAs bind 3′ UTR miRNA response elements to induce translational repression and mRNA deadenylation, decapping, and degradation via GW182, PAN2/3, CCR4-NOT, DCP2, and XRN1; binding to 5′ UTR/coding regions can silence, promoter binding can induce transcription, and activation occurs under specific conditions such as serum starvation, cell cycle arrest, oocytes, and amino acid starvation.
- miRNA action is dynamic: miRISC localizes to rER, P-bodies, stress granules, endosomes, multivesicular bodies, mitochondria, and the nucleus; average polysome occupancy is below 40%, and FANTOM5 data indicate that the top five expressed miRNAs represent on average ~50% of the miRNA pool in a given human cell type, with about half cell-type enriched and one quarter broadly expressed.
- Extracellular miRNAs are highly stable, resisting room-temperature degradation for up to 4 days and conditions such as boiling, freeze-thaw cycles, and high or low pH; they circulate in vesicles or bound to proteins such as AGO2, HDL, and NPM1, and can act as autocrine, paracrine, or endocrine signals, including via Toll-like receptors.
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- Narrative review; no primary experimental data, systematic search strategy, or sample size is reported.
- The main analysis is a thematic synthesis of published literature on canonical and non-canonical biogenesis, miRNA-mediated gene regulation, subcellular dynamics, and extracellular miRNA circulation.
- Data/sample: not applicable; the paper synthesizes prior studies and includes proposed models in figures.
Limitations
- The paper states that understanding of when and how miRNAs regulate transcription is limited, conditions for translational activation need further exploration, and mechanisms of extracellular miRNA secretion and uptake are not well understood.
- The paper notes that many studies use in vitro transfection into immortalized or cancer cell lines, which may not reflect endogenous miRNA functions in vivo, and that chemical tags on miRNAs could affect miRNA:MRE or AGO:miRNA interactions.
- Evident from the text: as a narrative review, it does not systematically assess evidence quality or quantify effect sizes across the cited literature.
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“In serum starved cells, AGO2 and another protein related to the miRNA-protein complex (microRNPs), Fragile-x-mental retardation related protein 1 (FXR1), were associated with AU-rich elements (AREs) at 3′ UTR to activate translation (55).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Mechanisms of miRNA-mediated gene regulation > MicroRNA-mediated translational activation
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- Not checked yetcites [55] Vasudevan, 2007, AU-rich-element-mediated upregulation of translation by FXR1 and Argonaute 2, Cell source
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“In most cases, miRNAs interact with the 3′ untranslated region (3′ UTR) of target mRNAs to induce mRNA degradation and translational repression.”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [14] Ha, 2014, Regulation of microRNA biogenesis, Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. source
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“Extracellular miRNAs function as chemical messengers to mediate cell-cell communication.”
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- Not checked yetcites [21] Hayes, 2014, MicroRNAs in cancer: biomarkers, functions and therapy, Trends Mol Med. source
- Not checked yetcites [22] Wang, 2016, MicroRNA as Biomarkers and Diagnostics, J Cell Physiol. source
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“In this pathway, pri-miRNAs are transcribed from their genes and then processed into pre-miRNAs by the microprocessor complex, consisting of an RNA binding protein DiGeorge Syndrome Critical Region 8 (DGCR8) and a ribonuclease III enzyme, Drosha (27).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Biogenesis of miRNAs > The canonical pathway of miRNA biogenesis
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- Not checked yetcites [27] Denli, 2004, Processing of primary microRNAs by the Microprocessor complex, Nature source
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“while miRNA interaction with promoter region has been reported to induce transcription (45).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Mechanisms of miRNA-mediated gene regulation
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- Not checked yetcites [45] Dharap, 2013, MicroRNA miR-324-3p induces promoter-mediated expression of RelA gene, PLoS ONE source
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“The minimal miRNA-induced silencing complex (miRISC) consists of the guide strand and AGO (46).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Mechanisms of miRNA-mediated gene regulation > MicroRNA-mediated gene silencing via miRISC
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- Not checked yetcites [46] Kawamata, 2010, Making RISC, Trends Biochem Sci. source
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“The miRNA-mediated activation of translation involves AGO2 and FXR1 instead of GW182 (56).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Mechanisms of miRNA-mediated gene regulation > MicroRNA-mediated translational activation
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- Not checked yetcites [56] Truesdell, 2012, MicroRNA-mediated mRNA translation activation in quiescent cells and oocytes involves recruitment of a nuclear microRNP, Sci Rep. source
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“The selection of the 5p or 3p strand is based in part on the thermodynamic stability at the 5′ ends of the miRNA duplex or a 5′ U at nucleotide position 1 (34).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Biogenesis of miRNAs > The canonical pathway of miRNA biogenesis
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- Not checked yetcites [34] Khvorova, 2003, Functional siRNAs and miRNAs exhibit strand bias, Cell source
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“Both strands derived from the mature miRNA duplex can be loaded into the Argonaute (AGO) family of proteins (AGO1-4 in humans) in an ATP-dependent manner (32).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Biogenesis of miRNAs > The canonical pathway of miRNA biogenesis
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Yoda, 2010, ATP-dependent human RISC assembly pathways, Nat Struct Mol Biol. source
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“However, interaction of miRNAs with other regions, including the 5′ UTR, coding sequence, and gene promoters, have also been reported.”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Broughton, 2016, Pairing beyond the Seed Supports MicroRNA Targeting Specificity, Mol Cell. source
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“Under certain conditions, miRNAs can also activate translation or regulate transcription.”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Abstract
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- Not checked yetcites [16] Vasudevan, 2012, Posttranscriptional upregulation by microRNAs, Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA source
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“The formation of a silencing miRISC complex starts with the recruitment of the GW182 family of proteins by miRISC; GW182 provides the scaffolding needed to recruit other effector proteins (52), such as the poly(A)-deadenylase complexes PAN2-PAN3 and CCR4-NOT, following miRNA:target mRNA interaction (50, 53).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Mechanisms of miRNA-mediated gene regulation > MicroRNA-mediated gene silencing via miRISC
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- Not checked yetcites [52] Behm-Ansmant, 2006, mRNA degradation by miRNAs and GW182 requires both CCR4:NOT deadenylase and DCP1:DCP2 decapping complexes, Genes Dev. source
- Not checked yetcites [50] Jonas, 2015, Towards a molecular understanding of microRNA-mediated gene silencing, Nat Rev Genet. source
- Not checked yetcites [53] Christie, 2013, Structure of the PAN3 pseudokinase reveals the basis for interactions with the PAN2 deadenylase and the GW182 proteins, Mol Cell. source
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“An example of such pre-miRNAs is mirtrons, which are produced from the introns of mRNA during splicing (35, 36).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Biogenesis of miRNAs > Non-canonical miRNA biogenesis pathways
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“On the other hand, Dicer-independent miRNAs are processed by Drosha from endogenous short hairpin RNA (shRNA) transcripts (38). These pre-miRNAs require AGO2 to complete their maturation within the cytoplasm because they are of insufficient length to be Dicer-substrates (38).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Biogenesis of miRNAs > Non-canonical miRNA biogenesis pathways
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Yang, 2010, Conserved vertebrate mir-451 provides a platform for Dicer-independent, Ago2-mediated microRNA biogenesis, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. source
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“Several miRNAs, including let-7, were found to be associated with AGO2 and FXR1 to activate translation during cell cycle arrest, but they inhibit translation in proliferating cells (55).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Mechanisms of miRNA-mediated gene regulation > MicroRNA-mediated translational activation
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- Not checked yetcites [55] Vasudevan, 2007, AU-rich-element-mediated upregulation of translation by FXR1 and Argonaute 2, Cell source
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“About half of all currently identified miRNAs are intragenic and processed mostly from introns and relatively few exons of protein coding genes, while the remaining are intergenic, transcribed independently of a host gene and regulated by their own promoters (13, 24).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Biogenesis of miRNAs
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“The interaction of miRNAs with their target genes is dynamic and dependent on many factors, such as subcellular location of miRNAs, the abundancy of miRNAs and target mRNAs, and the affinity of miRNA-mRNA interactions.”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Abstract
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“Once pre-miRNAs are generated, they are exported to the cytoplasm by an exportin 5 (XPO5)/RanGTP complex and then processed by the RNase III endonuclease Dicer (27, 30).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Biogenesis of miRNAs > The canonical pathway of miRNA biogenesis
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“miRNAs are critical for normal animal development and are involved in a variety of biological processes (18).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [18] Fu, 2013, MicroRNAs in human placental development and pregnancy complications, Int J Mol Sci. source
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“miRNAs have also been shown to interact at genomic loci, where enhancer-derived RNA (eRNA) are transcribed, and increase mRNA levels of adjacent genes by promoting a transcriptionally active chromatin state (67) while altering alternative splicing profiles (64).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Mechanisms of miRNA-mediated gene regulation > MicroRNA-mediated transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulation within the nucleus
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- Not checked yetcites [67] Xiao, 2017, MicroRNAs activate gene transcription epigenetically as an enhancer trigger, RNA Biol. source
- Not checked yetcites [64] Allo, 2014, Argonaute-1 binds transcriptional enhancers and controls constitutive and alternative splicing in human cells, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. source
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“Cooperation of multiple, proximal MREs on target mRNA has been shown to increase RNAi activity and increase retention times of miRISC complexes on those mRNA, most likely through the three AGO binding sites on the GW182 family proteins (94, 100).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Dynamics of miRNA actions > A global view of miRNA at the cellular level
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“Alternative splicing and alternative polyadenylation affecting 3′ UTRs, and cell type-specific RNA binding proteins that affect target mRNA secondary structures, change the available pool of MREs (63, 68, 69).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Dynamics of miRNA actions
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- Not checked yetcites [63] Bottini, 2017, Post-transcriptional gene silencing mediated by microRNAs is controlled by nucleoplasmic Sfpq, Nat Commun. source
- Not checked yetcites [68] Nam, 2014, Global analyses of the effect of different cellular contexts on microRNA targeting, Mol Cell. source
- Not checked yetcites [69] Blazie, 2017, Alternative polyadenylation directs tissue-specific miRNA targeting in Caenorhabditis elegans Somatic Tissues, Genetics source
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“Studies have revealed that miRNA-mediated gene regulation is dynamic and helps to buffer gene expression to a steady state.”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Dynamics of miRNA actions
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“Nuclear localized miRISC was found to regulate both transcriptional rates and post-transcriptional levels of mRNA (59–61) and associate with euchromatin at gene loci with active transcription (62).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Mechanisms of miRNA-mediated gene regulation > MicroRNA-mediated transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulation within the nucleus
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- Not checked yetcites [59] Nishi, 2013, Human TNRC6A is an Argonaute-navigator protein for microRNA-mediated gene silencing in the nucleus, RNA source
- Not checked yetcites [60] Benhamed, 2012, Senescence is an endogenous trigger for microRNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in human cells, Nat Cell Biol. source
- Not checked yetcites [61] Pitchiaya, 2017, Resolving subcellular miRNA trafficking and turnover at single-molecule resolution, Cell Rep. source
- Not checked yetcites [62] Cernilogar, 2011, Chromatin-associated RNA interference components contribute to transcriptional regulation in Drosophila, Nature source
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“Moreover, approximately half of the expressed miRNAs are cell type enriched, one quarter are broadly expressed, and the remaining had low-level expression regardless of cell type.”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Dynamics of miRNA actions > A global view of miRNA at the cellular level
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- Not checked yetcites [13] de Rie, 2017, An integrated expression atlas of miRNAs and their promoters in human and mouse, Nat Biotechnol. source
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“miRISC has also been found to copurify with polysomes, and the miRISC:mRNA complexes bound to these polysomes were associated with increased levels of translational inhibition and mRNA degradation (83).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Dynamics of miRNA actions > Subcellular compartmentalization of miRNAs
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- Not checked yetcites [83] Pillai, 2005, Inhibition of translational initiation by Let-7 MicroRNA in human cells, Science source
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“A recent study showed that miRNAs, AGO2, and target mRNAs are associated with rER-membrane-bound polysomes, and this occurs before miRNA-mediated translational repression (70).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Dynamics of miRNA actions > Subcellular compartmentalization of miRNAs
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- Not checked yetcites [70] Barman, 2015, mRNA targeting to endoplasmic reticulum precedes ago protein interaction and microRNA (miRNA)-mediated translation repression in mammalian cells, J Biol Chem. source
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“For example, cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A (CDKN1A), a tumor suppressor that is downregulated in multiple cancers (106), is targeted by at least 28 miRNAs and many of which are upregulated together in cancers where CDKN1A has been implicated (107).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Dynamics of miRNA actions > A global view of miRNA at the cellular level
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“Additionally, the degree of polysome occupancy of target mRNAs is dependent on the affinity between miRNA seed region and MRE, but not on miRNA abundance (84).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Dynamics of miRNA actions > Subcellular compartmentalization of miRNAs
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- Not checked yetcites [84] Molotski, 2012, Differential association of microRNAs with polysomes reflects distinct strengths of interactions with their mRNA targets, RNA source
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“The extracellular miRNAs can be delivered to target cells and they may act as autocrine, paracrine, and/or endocrine regulators to modulate cellular activities (116).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs
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- Not checked yetcites [116] Iftikhar, 2016, Evidence and potential in vivo functions for biofluid miRNAs: from expression profiling to functional testing: potential roles of extracellular miRNAs as indicators of physiological change and as agents of intercellular information exchange, Bioessays source
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“It has been shown that the secretion of exosomal miRNAs is mediated by a ceramide-dependent pathway and the secreted miRNAs exert growth regulatory effects in target cells (129).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs > Secretion and uptake of microRNAs
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- Not checked yetcites [129] Kosaka, 2010, Secretory mechanisms and intercellular transfer of microRNAs in living cells, J Biol Chem. source
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“Both cell stress induced by heat shock and translation inhibition following treatment with hippuristanol or cycloheximide induced translocation of miRISC from the nucleus and cytoplasm to transient, cytoplasmic SG (72, 111).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Dynamics of miRNA actions > A global view of miRNA at the cellular level
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- Not checked yetcites [72] Detzer, 2011, Cell stress is related to re-localization of Argonaute 2 and to decreased RNA interference in human cells, Nucleic Acids Res. source
- Not checked yetcites [111] Leung, 2006, Quantitative analysis of Argonaute protein reveals microRNA-dependent localization to stress granules, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. source
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“While several studies found that the majority of extracellular miRNAs are not associated with exosomes/microvesicles but are instead bound to AGO2 (118, 125), another study reported that extracellular miRNAs are present predominantly in exosomes in human serum and saliva (120).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs > MicroRNAs in biological fluids
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- Not checked yetcites [118] Arroyo, 2011, Argonaute2 complexes carry a population of circulating microRNAs independent of vesicles in human plasma, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA source
- Not checked yetcites [125] Turchinovich, 2011, Characterization of extracellular circulating microRNA, Nucleic Acids Res. source
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“Extracellular miRNAs have also been reported to bind to Toll-like receptors (137), activate downstream signaling events, and eventually lead to biological responses, such as tumor growth and metastasis (138), and neurodegeneration (139).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs > Secretion and uptake of microRNAs
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- Not checked yetcites [137] Fabbri, 2018, MicroRNAs and miRceptors: a new mechanism of action for intercellular communication, Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. source
- Not checked yetcites [138] Fabbri, 2012, MicroRNAs bind to Toll-like receptors to induce prometastatic inflammatory response, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. source
- Not checked yetcites [139] Lehmann, 2012, An unconventional role for miRNA: let-7 activates Toll-like receptor 7 and causes neurodegeneration, Nat Neurosci. source
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“For example, exosome mediated transfer of miR-105 from metastatic breast cancer cells to endothelial cells directly targeted a tight junction protein, zonula occludens 1 (ZO-1), and this led to the destruction of the barrier function of endothelium and promoted metastasis (134).”
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- Not checked yetcites [134] Zhou, 2014, Cancer-secreted miR-105 destroys vascular endothelial barriers to promote metastasis, Cancer Cell source
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“The presence of miRNAs in vesicles or with accompanying proteins is generally thought to protect extracellular miRNAs and increase their stability in the extracellular milieu (120).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs > MicroRNAs in biological fluids
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- Not checked yetcites [120] Gallo, 2012, The majority of microRNAs detectable in serum and saliva is concentrated in exosomes, PLoS ONE source
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“This process has been reported to be dependent on clathrin, but not on caveolae or lipid rafts in PC12 cells (142).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs > Secretion and uptake of microRNAs
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- Not checked yetcites [142] Tian, 2014, Exosome uptake through clathrin-mediated endocytosis and macropinocytosis and mediating miR-21 delivery, J Biol Chem. source
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“In neuroendocrine cells, miRNAs in large dense-core vesicles (LDCVs) are released by exocytosis through vesicle fusion, and this process is mediated by the SNARE complex and accelerated by Ca2+ stimulus (131).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs > Secretion and uptake of microRNAs
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- Not checked yetcites [131] Gumurdu, 2017, MicroRNA exocytosis by large dense-core vesicle fusion, Sci Rep. source
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“another study reported that extracellular miRNAs are present predominantly in exosomes in human serum and saliva (120).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs > MicroRNAs in biological fluids
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- Not checked yetcites [120] Gallo, 2012, The majority of microRNAs detectable in serum and saliva is concentrated in exosomes, PLoS ONE source
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“Two populations of extracellular miRNAs exist in biological fluids. One can be found in vesicles such as exosomes, microvesicles, and apoptotic bodies (116, 120) while the other is associated with proteins, especially AGO2 (120, 125).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs > MicroRNAs in biological fluids
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- Not checked yetcites [116] Iftikhar, 2016, Evidence and potential in vivo functions for biofluid miRNAs: from expression profiling to functional testing: potential roles of extracellular miRNAs as indicators of physiological change and as agents of intercellular information exchange, Bioessays source
- Not checked yetcites [120] Gallo, 2012, The majority of microRNAs detectable in serum and saliva is concentrated in exosomes, PLoS ONE source
- Not checked yetcites [125] Turchinovich, 2011, Characterization of extracellular circulating microRNA, Nucleic Acids Res. source
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“Moreover, exosomes from umbilical cord blood were found to be enriched in miR-21-3p, which promoted the proliferation and migration of fibroblasts, and induced the angiogenic activities of endothelial cells, leading to accelerated wound healing (135).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs > Secretion and uptake of microRNAs
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- Not checked yetcites [135] Hu, 2018, Exosomes from human umbilical cord blood accelerate cutaneous wound healing through miR-21-3p-mediated promotion of angiogenesis and fibroblast function, Theranostics source
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“In a study by Wang et al. (110), upon serum starvation of multiple human cell lines, there was an immediate exportation of stable, vesicular or vesicle-free miRNA and a concomitant decrease of intracellular miRNA levels (110).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Dynamics of miRNA actions > A global view of miRNA at the cellular level
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- Not checked yetcites [110] Wang, 2010, Export of microRNAs and microRNA-protective protein by mammalian cells, Nucleic Acids Res. source
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“Mechanisms by which miRNAs are secreted and taken up by cells are not well understood and require further investigation.”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Concluding remarks
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“It is now clear that miRNAs are powerful gene regulators, and that they not only help control mRNA stability and translation but are also involved in transcription.”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Concluding remarks
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“The assaying of miRNA activity within a test tube may not be recapitulated within the cellular environment and thus should be viewed with caution.”
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“Also, the addition of chemical tags to miRNA could also impact miRNA:MRE interaction or AGO:miRNA interactions, specifically with 5′ and 3′ miRNA nucleotide modifications.”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Concluding remarks
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“miRNAs regulate the activity of host cells, and they are also secreted and transferred to recipient cells.”
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“However, our understanding of when and how miRNAs can exert regulatory effects on transcription is limited.”
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“Many factors contribute to the activity of miRNAs, including subcellular location, miRNA/mRNA abundance, miRNA:MRE affinity, cell type/state, and the availability of various miRISC components.”
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“Cytosolic miRISC components shuttle between different compartments.”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Concluding remarks
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“However, most studies conducted so far were done in vitro using co-culture of different cell types.”
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“miRNAs in the nucleus play a role in regulating transcription and alternative splicing.”
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The first and last miRNA nucleotides clamp the miRNA within AGO proteins.
“The first and last miRNA nucleotides clamp the miRNA within AGO proteins”
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“A large volume of evidence implicates microRNAs playing crucial roles in multiple biological functions such as proliferation, differentiation, or apoptosis.3,21”
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§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Mechanisms of miRNA-mediated gene regulation > MicroRNA-mediated transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulation within the nucleus
“A more recent study by Miao et al. (66) found nuclear miR-522 interacting with a DNA cruciform structure (a stem-loop on sense and antisense DNA strands) within the promoter of CYP2E1 and suppressing its transcription (66).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > References
“66. Miao L Yao H Li C Pu M Yao X Yang H. A dual inhibition: microRNA-552 suppresses both transcription and translation of cytochrome P450 2E1.”
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§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > Circulation of miRNAs > Secretion and uptake of microRNAs
“Recently, it was demonstrated that atheroprotective laminar shear stress induced the release of vesicle-free miR-126-3p and other miRNAs, as well as AGO2, from endothelial cells by activating vesicle-associated membrane protein 3 (VAMP3) and synaptosomal-associated protein 23 (SNAP23) (130).”
§ Overview of MicroRNA Biogenesis, Mechanisms of Actions, and Circulation > References
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- Authors
- O'Brien, J., Hayder, H., Zayed, Y., & Peng, C.
- Affiliations
- York University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Peng, Chun
- Venue
- Frontiers in Endocrinology
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- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2018-08-03
- Volume
- 9
- Pages
- 402-402
- ISSN
- 1664-2392 (ISSN-L)
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- PMC6085463
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- W2811212358
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- 146
- Citations by year
- 2026: 502 · 2025: 781 · 2024: 872 · 2023: 930 · 2022: 906 · 2021: 696 · 2020: 421 · 2019: 149 · 2018: 6
- FWCI
- 33.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Frontiers in Endocrinology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (153146_1, MOP89931, 132565_1, 92222_1, MOP-81370)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › MicroRNA in disease regulation
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- Keywords
- microRNA biogenesis, microRNA regulation of gene expression, 3' untranslated region, mRNA degradation, protein synthesis inhibition, Argonaute proteins, exosomes, extracellular miRNAs, intercellular communication
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-07, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-07 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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