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Published in final edited form as: J Mol Endocrinol. 2020 Jan;64(1):R21–R43. doi: 10.1530/JME-19-0105

Table 2.

Potential targets of miRNAs in steroidogenic pathways.

Species/steroidogenic tissues/cells miRNA Potential targets of steroidogenic enzymes or protein factors Reference
Adrenal steroidogenic pathways
 Human tissue samples and human H295R adrenocortical cells
 Human H295R adrenocortical cells
 Human H295 adrenocortical cells
 Mouse Y1 adrenocortical tumor cells
 Human adrenal tissue, and human H295R adrenocortical cells
miRNA-24
miRNA-10b
miRNA-98
miRNA-132
DICER1
miRNA-125a-5p
miRNA-125b-5p
miRNA-24
miRNA-320a-3p
miRNA-10b
miRNA-579, miRNA-561
CYP11B1, CYP11B2
CYP11B1, CYP11B2
CYP19A1
StAR, Mecp2
CYP11A1, CYP11B1, CYP21A, CYP17A1, CYP11B2
CYP11B2
CYP11B2
CYP11B1, CYP11B2
CYP11A1, CYP17A1
CYP11B1, CYP11B2
HSD11B1
Robertson et al. 2013, Nusrin et al. 2014, Yu et al. 2015, Hu et al. 2017, Robertson et al. 2013, 2017, Clayton et al. 2018
Ovarian steroidogenic pathways
 Porcine ovarian cumulus granulosa cells
 Mouse ovarian granulosa cells
 Primary mouse ovarian granulosa cells, and human granulosa-like tumor cell line, KGN
 Rat ovaries
 Primary human ovarian granulosa cells
 Mouse ovarian granulosa cells
 Human ovarian granulosa-like tumor cell line
 Primary mouse ovarian granulosa cells
 Porcine ovarian granulosa cells
 Human ovarian cumulus granulosa cells and human granulosa-like tumor cell line, KGN
 Mouse ovarian granulosa cells
 Human ovarian granulosa like tumor cell line, KGN
 Mouse ovarian granulosa cells, and mouse granulosa-like tumor cell line, KK-1
 Human ovarian granulosa-like tumor cell line, KGN
 Human ovarian cumulus granulosa cells
 Porcine ovarian granulosa cells
 Rat ovary
 Buffalo ovaries and buffalo ovarian granulosa cells.
 Human ovarian cumulus granulosa cells and human granulosa-like tumor cell line, KGN
 Human ovarian cumulus granulosa cells
 Ovine ovarian granulosa cells
miRNA-378
miRNA-383
miRNA-133b
miRNA-5131-3p
miRNA-513a-3p
miRNA-320, miRNA-383
miRNA-592
miRNA-132
miRNA-126*
miRNA-509-3p
miRNA-764-3p
let-7b
miRNA-27a-3p
miRNA-375
miRNA-320a
miRNA-1275
miRNA-122
miRNA-210
miRNA-323-3p
miRNA-320a
miRNA-150
CYP19A1
RBMS1
Foxl2
LHCGR
LHCGR
E2F1, SF-1
LHCGR
Nurr1
FSHR
MAP3K8
SF-1
StAR
Creb1
SP1
RUNX2
LRH-1
LRBP, SREBP-1a/SREBP-2, LHCGR
HRas, EFNA3
IGF-1
RUNX2
StAR
Xu et al. 2011, Pan et al. 2015, Yin et al. 2012, Dai et al. 2013, Kitahara et al. 2013, Troppmann et al. 2014, Yin et al. 2014, Song et al. 2015, Wu et al. 2015, Du et al. 2016b, Huang et al. 2016, Wang et al. 2016a, Men et al. 2017, Wang et al. 2017, Tu et al. 2019, Zhang et al. 2017a, Liu et al. 2018, Menon et al. 2018, Shukla et al. 2018, Wang et al. 2019, Zhang et al. 2019a, Zhou et al. 2019
Testicular steroidogenic pathways
 Mouse testicular Leydig tumor MLTC-1 cells
 Mouse testicular Leydig tumor MLTC-1 cells
 Mouse testicular Leydig cells
 Mouse testicular Leydig tumor MLTC-1 cells
 Mouse testicular Leydig tumor MA-10 cells
 Primary rat testicular Leydig cells and Mouse testicular Leydig tumor TM3 cells
miRNA-125a, miRNA-455
miRNA-200c
miRNA-150
let-7b
MiRNA-146a-5p
miRNA-6321
SR-B1
Vimentin
STAR
Star
Mta-3
Map3k1
Hu et al. 2012, Hu et al. 2017, Geng et al. 2017, Men et al. 2017, Gao et al. 2018, Ha et al. 2018

Creb1, cAMP-responsive element-binding protein1; E2F1, E2F transcription factor 1, FSHR, follicle-stimulating hormone receptor; Foxl2, forkhead Box L2; IGF-1, insulin-like growth factor-1; LHCGR, luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor; LRBP, luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) mRNA-binding protein; LRH-1, liver receptor homolog-1; MAP3K1, mitogen-activated protein kinase, kinase, kinase1; MAP3K8, mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase 8; Mecp2, methyl CpG-binding protein; Mta-3, metastasis-associated 3; Nur77, orphan nuclear receptor Nur77 (also known as NR4A1, NGF1B, TR3TIS1, NAK or N10); Nurr1, Nurr1 transcription factor, also called nuclear receptor subfamily 4 group A member 2 (Nr4a2); RBMS1, RNA-binding motif single-stranded interacting protein 1; RUNX2, Runt-related transcription factor also known as core binding factor subunit alpha-1 (CBP-alpha-1); SR-B1, scavenger receptor class B, type 1; SREBP-1a, sterol regulatory element-binding protein1a; SREBP-2, sterol regulatory element-binding protein2; STA R/StAR/Star, steroidogenic acute regulatory protein; SF-1, steroidogenic factor 1.