Table 1        Known Musashi Targets

Target mRNA

Up-/down- regulation

Cell type

Method(s) of identification

Effect

Reference

TTK69

Down

Drosophila SOP precursors

Candidate gene

Asymmetric cell fate

Okabe et al. 2001

Numb

Down

NIH 3T3 cells

Msi target sequences in 3’-UTR

Notch upregulation

Imai et al. 2001

Down

CML

Candidate gene

Blast crisis

Ito et al. 2010

CDKN1A

Down

HEK293 cells

Candidate gene

Cell cycle progression, proliferation

Battelli et al. 2006

c-mos

Up

Xenopus oocytes

Yeast 3-hybrid screen

Meiotic cycle progression

Charlesworth et al. 2006

Robo3/Rig1

Up

Murine precerebellar neurons

Candidate gene

Axonal crossing

Kuwako et al. 2010

arx-1, arx-2, arx-3 (encode Arp2/3 subunits)

Down

C. elegans AVA interneurons

Candidate gene

Time-dependent memory loss

Hadziselimovic et al. 2014

doublecortin

Down

Neuro2A cells

mRNA display screen

Unknown

Horisawa et al. 2009

NF-YA

Down

SUM159PT breast cancer cell line

Msi target sequences in 3’-UTR

26S proteasome downregulation

Lagadec et al. 2014

Smad3

Down

Murine HSCs

HITS-CLIP

HSC maintenance

Park et al. 2014

Jagged1

Down

293T cells

Msi target sequences in 3’-UTR

Notch signaling upregulation

Katz et al. 2014

PTEN

Down

MSI2-overexpressing intestinal epithelium

CLIP-Seq

Crypt fission and expansion

Wang et al. 2015

Hoxa9, Myc, Ikzf2

Up

Mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL-AF9)

HITS-CLIP, RNA-Seq, RNA-IP

Maintenance of leukemia self-renewal

Park et al. 2015

Tetraspanin3

Up

Acute myelogenous leukemia

Microarray

AML propagation, chemokine response

Kwon et al. 2015

Abbreviations

CLIP-Seq, crosslinking immunoprecipitation sequencing

CML, chronic myeloid leukemia

HITS-CLIP, high-throughput sequencing RNA isolated by crosslinking immunoprecipitation

HSC, hematopoietic stem cell

SOP, sensory organ progenitor

UTR, untranslated region