Adam M Zahm1, Amber W Wang1, Yue J Wang2, Jonathan Schug1, Kirk J Wangensteen3, Klaus H Kaestner4. 1. Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. 3. Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: wkirk@pennmedicine.upenn.edu. 4. Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: kaestner@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Liver regeneration is impaired in mice with hepatocyte-specific deficiencies in microRNA (miRNA) processing, but it is not clear which miRNAs regulate this process. We developed a high-throughput screen to identify miRNAs that regulate hepatocyte repopulation after toxic liver injury using fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase-deficient mice. METHODS: We constructed plasmid pools encoding more than 30,000 tough decoy miRNA inhibitors (hairpin nucleic acids designed to specifically inhibit interactions between miRNAs and their targets) to target hepatocyte miRNAs in a pairwise manner. The plasmid libraries were delivered to hepatocytes in fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase-deficient mice at the time of liver injury via hydrodynamic tail-vein injection. Integrated transgene-containing transposons were quantified after liver repopulation via high-throughput sequencing. Changes in polysome-bound transcripts after miRNA inhibition were determined using translating ribosome affinity purification followed by high-throughput sequencing. RESULTS: Analyses of tough decoy abundance in hepatocyte genomic DNA and input plasmid pools identified several thousand miRNA inhibitors that were significantly depleted or increased after repopulation. We classified a subset of miRNA binding sites as those that have strong effects on liver repopulation, implicating the targeted hepatocyte miRNAs as regulators of this process. We then generated a high-content map of pairwise interactions between 171 miRNA-binding sites and identified synergistic and redundant effects. CONCLUSIONS: We developed a screen to identify miRNAs that regulate liver repopulation after injury in live mice.
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Liver regeneration is impaired in mice with hepatocyte-specific deficiencies in microRNA (miRNA) processing, but it is not clear which miRNAs regulate this process. We developed a high-throughput screen to identify miRNAs that regulate hepatocyte repopulation after toxic liver injury using fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase-deficient mice. METHODS: We constructed plasmid pools encoding more than 30,000 tough decoy miRNA inhibitors (hairpin nucleic acids designed to specifically inhibit interactions between miRNAs and their targets) to target hepatocyte miRNAs in a pairwise manner. The plasmid libraries were delivered to hepatocytes in fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase-deficient mice at the time of liver injury via hydrodynamic tail-vein injection. Integrated transgene-containing transposons were quantified after liver repopulation via high-throughput sequencing. Changes in polysome-bound transcripts after miRNA inhibition were determined using translating ribosome affinity purification followed by high-throughput sequencing. RESULTS: Analyses of tough decoy abundance in hepatocyte genomic DNA and input plasmid pools identified several thousand miRNA inhibitors that were significantly depleted or increased after repopulation. We classified a subset of miRNA binding sites as those that have strong effects on liver repopulation, implicating the targeted hepatocyte miRNAs as regulators of this process. We then generated a high-content map of pairwise interactions between 171 miRNA-binding sites and identified synergistic and redundant effects. CONCLUSIONS: We developed a screen to identify miRNAs that regulate liver repopulation after injury in live mice.
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