MicroRNA profile of circulating CD4-positive regulatory T cells in human adults and impact of differentially expressed microRNAs on expression of two genes essential to their function

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 9910-9922

  Fayyad Kazan, Hussein ^a   Rouas, Redouane ^a   Fayyad Kazan, Mohammad ^a   Badran, Rabih ^a   El Zein, Nabil ^a   Lewalle, Philippe ^a   Najar, Medhi ^a   Hamade, Eva ^b   Jebbawi, Fadi ^a   Merimi, Makram ^a   Romero, Pedro ^c   Burny, Arsène ^a   Badran, Bassam ^b   Martiat, Philippe ^a  

^a JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC; MICRORNAS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD; POTENTIAL TARGETS; REGULATORY FUNCTIONS; T CELLS; TARGET SITES;

BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION;

CD4 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 145; MICRORNA 210; MICRORNA 24; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FORKHEAD BOX P3 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ASSOCIATED MOLECULE 4 GENE; UPREGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADULT; CTLA-4 ANTIGEN; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY;

EID: 84858986644     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.337154     Document Type: Article

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