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ArticleJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2010

MicroRNA regulation of IFN-beta protein expression: rapid and sensitive modulation of the innate immune response.

Kenneth W Witwer, Jeanne M Sisk, Lucio Gama, Janice E Clements

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Article in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 107 papers.

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107citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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107 citing papers in PubMed, 180 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kenneth W WitwerDepartment of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 733 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Jeanne M Sisk
Lucio Gama
Janice E Clements
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Project 4: Intracellular mechanism of virus persistence in astrocytes/macrophagesP01MH070306 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CLEMENTS, JANICE E · 2004 to 2015
$16.0M
NIMH NIH HHS MH70306NIMH NIH HHS P01 MH070306
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

IFN-beta production is an inaugural event in the innate immune response to viral infections, with relatively small fold changes in IFN-beta expression resulting in the activation of important antiviral signaling cascades. In our rapid SIV/macaque model of HIV encephalitis, the virus enters the CNS within 4 d of infection, accompanied by a marked IFN-beta response that wanes as SIV replication is controlled. The centrality of IFN-beta to the innate antiviral response in the CNS combines with the potential inflammatory damage associated with long-term activation of this pathway to suggest that IFN-beta may be subject to regulatory fine-tuning in addition to well-established transcriptional and message stability mechanisms of regulation. In this paper, we present for the first time evidence that microRNAs (miRNAs), including miR-26a, -34a, -145, and let-7b, may directly regulate IFN-beta in human and macaque cells. In primary primate macrophages, the main cell type implicated in HIV and SIV infection in the CNS, specific miRNAs reduce, whereas miRNA inhibitors enhance, IFN-beta protein production. The potential biologic significance of this regulation is supported by evidence of an apparent negative feedback loop, with increased expression of three IFN-beta-regulating miRNAs by primate macrophages exposed to recombinant IFN-beta or stimulated to produce IFN-beta. Thus, miRNAs may contribute significantly to the regulation of IFN-beta in innate immune responses.

Indexed as

3' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsCell LineCells, CulturedEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayGene Expression RegulationHumansImmunity, InnateInterferon-betaMacaca nemestrinaMacrophagesMicroRNAsProtein BiosynthesisReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, MessengerTransfection3' Untranslated RegionsInterferon-betaMicroRNAsMIRN145 microRNA, humanMIRN26 microRNA, humanMIRN34 microRNA, humanmirnlet7 microRNA, humanRNA, Messenger

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PMID20130213
PMCPMC3076721
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