Abstract
Deregulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) has been attributed to almost any human disease analyzed to date. This calls for models and experimental strategies for functional analyses of miRNAs enabling miRNA overexpression or suppression in target cell and/or tissues. Lentiviral vector (LV)-based technologies allow the long-term overexpression of miRNAs in nearly all cell types in an easy and rapid manner and are therefore popular tools for this application. In this chapter we describe the cloning of LV miRNA expression vectors as well as the production of virus particles for target cell infection and stable expression of miRNAs.
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Zöllner, H., Hahn, S.A., Maghnouj, A. (2014). Lentiviral Overexpression of miRNAs. In: Arenz, C. (eds) miRNA Maturation. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1095. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-703-7_15
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