(Press-News.org) Slit-Robo GTPase-activating protein 3 contains a Rho GAP domain that regulates the activities of Rho family GTPases and affects actin polymerization, which influences dendrite elaboration, neurite outgrowth and axon guidance, contributing to neural regeneration. Anjie Lu, the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China and his team performed a microRNA microarray analysis and identified 23 microRNAs whose expression were significantly changed in rat dorsal root ganglia (DRG) after sciatic nerve injury (SNI). Bioinformatic analysis was used to determine microRNA-214 took srGAP3 as possible target gene and most correlated with axon guidance pathway. Quantitative reverse transcriptase-PCR and dual-luciferase reporter gene assay further confirmed the targeting relationship between microRNA-214 and srGAP3. In situ hybridization, western blot and immunofluorescence staining showed that microRNA-214 expression in rat DRG was decreased, while srGAP3 protein expression was gradually increased at 1-7 days after SNI. The results indicate that SNI can cause the differential expression of microRNAs in DRG primary neurons in lumbar segment, srGAP3 is a target gene of microRNA-214, and there is a reverse relationship between microRNA-214 and srGAP3 expression. Related results were published in Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 9, No. 10, 2014).
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Article: " Differential expression of microRNAs in dorsal root ganglia after sciatic nerve injury," by Anjie Lu1, Zufa Huang1, Chaoyue Zhang1, Xianfang Zhang2, Jiuhong Zhao2, Haiying Zhang2, Quanpeng Zhang2, Song Wu1, Xinan Yi2 (1 Department of Orthopedics, the Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China; 2 Neurosciences Research Department, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, Hainan Province, China)
Lu AJ, Huang ZF, Zhang CY, Zhang XF, Zhao JH, Zhang HY, Zhang QP, Wu S, Yi XN. Differential expression of microRNAs in dorsal root ganglia after sciatic nerve injury. Neural Regen Res. 2014;9(10):1031-1040.
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The differentially expressed genes in DRG that influence neural regeneration after SNI
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