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Regulation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase by small RNA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2005-11-15)
Ming-Xiang Zhang, Hesheng Ou, Ying H Shen, Jing Wang, Jian Wang, Joseph Coselli, Xing Li Wang
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Repeats (27-nt) in intron 4 have been shown to play a cis-acting role in endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) promoter activity. We hypothesize that the 27-nt repeats could be the source of small nuclear RNA specifically regulating eNOS expression. In this study, we used synthesized 27-nt RNA duplex and found that the eNOS gene transcriptional efficiency was reduced 63% (0.047 +/- 0.009 vs. 0.126 +/- 0.015, P < 0.01) by nuclear run-on assay. In endothelial cells transfected with the 27-nt small RNA duplex, we found that the eNOS mRNA and protein levels were decreased by >64% (P < 0.01). Conversely, a randomly selected 27-nt from luciferase gene had no effect on the eNOS expression. Furthermore, this eNOS silencing effect appeared to be reversible under the stimulation of vascular endothelial growth factor (10 ng/ml), which is known to up-regulate eNOS expression. Using in situ hybridization and Northern blotting, we observed the presence of endogenous eNOS intron 4-derived 27-nt small RNA, which was confined to the nucleus. In summary, we demonstrated that intron-based microRNAs in eNOS can induce significant gene specific transcriptional suppression, which could be an effective negative feedback regulator for gene expression.

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DIG寡核苷酸3′-末端标记试剂盒,第2代, sufficient for 25 labeling reactions (100 pmol of oligonucleotides per assay; 1 ug of a 30-mer oligonucleotide), storage condition avoid repeated freeze/thaw cycles