MicroRNA-21 and microRNA-148a contribute to DNA hypomethylation in lupus CD4+ T cells by directly and indirectly targeting DNA methyltransferase 1

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6773-6781

  Pan, Wen ^a   Zhu, Shu ^a   Yuan, Min ^a   Cui, Huijuan ^a,b   Wang, Lijia ^a   Luo, Xiaobing ^a,b   Li, Jia ^a   Zhou, Haibo ^a,b   Tang, Yuanjia ^a,b   Shen, Nan ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD70 ANTIGEN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 148A; MICRORNA 21; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; DNA (CYTOSINE 5 ) METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MURPHY ROTHS LARGE LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE MOUSE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED MRL LPR; MICRORNAS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 77953624215     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0904060     Document Type: Article

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