SRIVASTAVA, A. | bioRxiv Science

bioRxiv2022

RNA Immunoprecipitation and Sequencing of Isolated RNAs (RIP-SIR) Identifies Endogenous miRNA-Target Interactions

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are crucial post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression in species ranging from plants to mammals. Unraveling the complex networks of miRNA-mediated regulation of gene expression requires the ability to identify the mRNA targets of individual miRNAs in native cellular contexts. Here we describe RIP-SIR, an unbiased genome-wide method for identifying interactions between endogenous miRNAs and their targets in almost any tissue or cell type.

molecular biology↗

bioRxiv2019

Systematic Establishment of Robustness and Standards in Patient-Derived Xenograft Experiments and Analysis

Patient-Derived Xenografts (PDXs) are tumor-in-mouse models for cancer. PDX collections, such as those supported by the NCI PDXNet program, are powerful resources for preclinical therapeutic testing. However, variations in experimental design and analysis procedures have limited interpretability. To determine the robustness of PDX studies, the PDXNet tested temozolomide drug response for three pre-validated PDX models (sensitive, resistant, and intermediate) across four blinded PDX Development and Trial Centers (PDTCs) using independently selected SOPs. Each PDTC was able to correctly identify the sensitive, resistant, and intermediate models, and statistical evaluations were concordant across all groups. We also developed and benchmarked optimized PDX informatics pipelines, and these yielded robust assessments across xenograft biological replicates. These studies show that PDX drug responses and sequence results are reproducible across diverse experimental protocols. Here we share the range of experimental procedures that maintained robustness, as well as standardized cloud-based workflows for PDX exome-seq and RNA-Seq analysis and for evaluating growth.

cancer biology↗