Translating ceRNA susceptibilities into correlation functions
Competition to bind microRNAs induces an effective positive crosstalk between their targets, therefore known as `competing endogenous RNAs' or ceRNAs. While such an effect is known to play a significant role in specific conditions, estimating its strength from data and, experimentally, in physiological conditions appears to be far from simple. Here we show that the susceptibility of ceRNAs to different types of perturbations affecting their competitors (and hence their tendency to crosstalk) can be encoded in quantities as intuitive and as simple to measure as correlation functions. We confirm this scenario by extensive numerical simulations and validate it by re-analyzing PTEN's crosstalk pattern from TCGA breast cancer dataset. These results clarify the links between different quantities used to estimate the intensity of ceRNA crosstalk and provide new keys to analyze transcriptional datasets and effectively probe ceRNA networks in silico.
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