TGF-β/Smad2/3 Signaling Directly Regulates Several miRNAs in Mouse ES Cells and Early Embryos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Redshaw, Nicholas ^a   Camps, Carme ^b   Sharma, Vikas ^a   Motallebipour, Mehdi ^a   Guzman Ayala, Marcela ^a   Oikonomopoulos, Spyros ^b   Thymiakou, Efstathia ^a   Ragoussis, Jiannis ^b   Episkopou, Vasso ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 181C; MICRORNA 181D; MICRORNA 341; PROTEIN FOXH1; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICRORNAS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84873873555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055186     Document Type: Article

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