Expression data of mRNA from wild-type A549 cells and microRNA-203 knockout A549 cells during H5N1 infections

MicroRNA-203 was up-regulated markedly upon H5N1 virus infection. To identify the potential target genes of miR-203, we constructed a miR-203 knockout A549 cell line. Then wild-type and miR-203 knockout A549 cells were mock-infected or infected with H5N1 virus for 48h. The Agilent Whole Human Genome Oligo Microarray was performed to analyze the mRNA expression profiling. Meanwhile, the online tool TargetScanHuman (http://www.targetscan.org/vert_71/) was used to predict biological targets of miR-203. We combined the predicted genes with the genes differentially expressed in wild-type and miR-203 knockout A549 cells, and preliminarily identified some candidate mRNAs. Then more experiments were performed to further verify these target genes, such as dual-luciferase reporter assay, quantitative real-time PCR or Western blot analysis. Wild-type A549 cells and microRNA-203 knockout A549 cells were un-infected, mock-infected or infected with H5N1 virus for 48h to measure the gene expression.