Relative gene-silencing efficiencies of small interfering RNAs targeting sense and antisense transcripts from the same genetic locus
AUTOR(ES)
Hu, Xiuyuan
FONTE
Oxford University Press
RESUMO
Short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) directed against different regions of genes display marked variation in their potency in mediating mRNA degradation. Various factors have been proposed to affect the efficacy of siRNA. We explored some of the factors by evaluating in cultured human cells 28 randomly selected siRNAs targeting the GPR39 and MGC29643 transcripts derived from the same genetic locus but transcribed in opposite directions. Twenty of the 24 siRNAs targeting the overlapping regions of the transcripts simultaneously reduced the levels of both transcripts. Single nucleotide changes in either of the siRNA strands significantly reduced the gene-silencing efficiency of the siRNA on targeted sense transcript without affecting the antisense transcript. Overall, we observed a greater gene-silencing efficiency on the MGC29643 transcript than on the GPR39 transcript in HeLa cells. Since MGC29643 transcript is more abundant than the GPR39 transcript [0.24 versus 0.008% relative to 100% for glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH)], the results suggest that the abundance of the mRNA affects the efficiency of silencing. Two additional observations supported this hypothesis. First, GAPDH whose intracellular level is the highest of the three was the most efficiently silenced. Second, a reversal of gene-silencing efficiency was observed in U-138 MG cells in which the relative abundance of the GPR39 and MGC29643 transcripts is also reversed. Our study suggests that low-abundant transcripts are less susceptible to siRNA-mediated degradation than medium- and high-abundant transcripts.
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