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Gene Reporter Assays to Study miRNA Function.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2021
Abel Yoann, Rederstorff Mathieu
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This chapter describes one of the most reliable quantitative assays to test the silencing of a possible target gene by a specific miRNA using a luciferase reporter gene. The experimental procedure first consists in cloning both the wild-type and mutated forms of the 3'UTR of the miRNA-predicted mRNA target downstream of a firefly luciferase reporter. Next, each construct is co-transfected together with the miRNA...
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