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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an abundant family of endogenous noncoding small RNA molecules. They play crucial roles on regulation of life processes both in plants and animals. Fibroin modulator binding protein-1 (FMBP-1) is a silk gland transcription factor of Bombyx mori, which is considered as a trans-activator of fibroin genes. And bioinformatics prediction showed that at the 3' untranslated region of BmFMBP-1 there were binding sites for three bmo-miRNAs, bmo-miR-2b*, bmo-miR-305, and bmo-miR-2758, separately. In order to validate whether these bmo-miRNAs involved in the regulation of BmFMBP-1 expression, the expression levels of three bmo-miRNAs and BmFMBP-1 in the middle silk gland (MSG) and posterior silk gland (PSG) during the fourth- and fifth-larval stages of B. mori were measured by semi-quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. The results revealed that the expression level of bmo-miR-2758 was the highest in the three, and it expressed higher in the PSG than in the MSG with a similar expression pattern as BmFMBP-1, implying that bmo-miR-2758 may involved in regulation of BmFMBP-1. To validate the regulation function of bmo-miR-2758 on BmFMBP-1, recombinant plasmids pcDNA3 [ie1-egfp-pri-bmo-miR-2758-SV40] and pGL3 [A3-luc-FMBP-1 were constructed and co-transfected in BmN cells. The dual-luciferase reporter assay system was used for assay of transient expression. The results showed that the expression of the luciferase reporter was significantly decreased when pGL3 [A3-luc-FMBP-1 duanyu3-SV40] co-transfected with pcDNA3 [ie1-egfp-pri-bmo-miR-2758-SV40] (P <â .01). Furthermore, when the artificial antisense RNA of bmo-miR-2758 (inhibitor) was added to the above co-transfection, the expression of the luciferase reporter was recovered significantly (P < 0.01). These results suggest that bmo-miR-2758 represses the expression of BmFMBP-1 in vitro.
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