MicroRNAs in hematopoietic development

BMC Immunology

Silvia Monticelli¹  Lorenzo Dehó¹  Sara Montagner² 

[1] Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, Bellinzona CH-6500, Switzerland;Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, Bern 3012, Switzerland

关键词: miRNAs;    Innate immunity;    Hematopoietic stem cells;    Hematopoiesis;    Embryonic stem cells;    Development;    Adaptive immunity;   

Others  :  1077718
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2172-15-14

 received in 2013-09-23, accepted in 2014-03-26,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs involved in the posttranscriptional regulation of a wide range of biological processes. By binding to complementary sequences on target messenger RNAs, they trigger translational repression and degradation of the target, eventually resulting in reduced protein output. MiRNA-dependent regulation of protein translation is a very widespread and evolutionarily conserved mechanism of posttranscriptional control of gene expression. Accordingly, a high proportion of mammalian genes are likely to be regulated by miRNAs. In the hematopoietic system, both transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression ensure proper differentiation and function of stem cells, committed progenitors as well as mature cells.

Results

In recent years, miRNA expression profiling of various cell types in the hematopoietic system, as well as gene-targeting approaches to assess the function of individual miRNAs, revealed the importance of this type of regulation in the development of both innate and acquired immunity.

Conclusions

We discuss the general role of miRNA biogenesis in the development of hematopoietic cells, as well as specific functions of individual miRNAs in stem cells as well as in mature immune cells.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Montagner et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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