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ADAR1 is required for differentiation and neural induction by regulating microRNA processing in a catalytically independent manner
Authors:Tian Chen  Jian-Feng Xiang  Shanshan Zhu  Siye Chen  Qing-Fei Yin  Xiao-Ou Zhang  Jun Zhang  Hua Feng  Rui Dong  Xue-Jun Li  Li Yang  Ling-Ling Chen
Abstract:Adenosine deaminases acting on RNA (ADARs) are involved in adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing and are implicated in development and diseases. Here we observed that ADAR1 deficiency in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) significantly affected hESC differentiation and neural induction with widespread changes in mRNA and miRNA expression, including upregulation of self-renewal-related miRNAs, such as miR302s. Global editing analyses revealed that ADAR1 editing activity contributes little to the altered miRNA/mRNA expression in ADAR1-deficient hESCs upon neural induction. Genome-wide iCLIP studies identified that ADAR1 binds directly to pri-miRNAs to interfere with miRNA processing by acting as an RNA-binding protein. Importantly, aberrant expression of miRNAs and phenotypes observed in ADAR1-depleted hESCs upon neural differentiation could be reversed by an enzymatically inactive ADAR1 mutant, but not by the RNA-binding-null ADAR1 mutant. These findings reveal that ADAR1, but not its editing activity, is critical for hESC differentiation and neural induction by regulating miRNA biogenesis via direct RNA interaction.
Keywords:ADAR1  RNA editing  embryonic stem cell  neural induction  miRNA
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