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ArticleCell stem cell2011

Specific microRNAs are preferentially expressed by skin stem cells to balance self-renewal and early lineage commitment.

Liang Zhang, Nicole Stokes, Lisa Polak, Elaine Fuchs

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Article in Cell stem cell, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

95 citing papers in PubMed, 197 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Liang ZhangHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA. fuchslb@rockefeller.edu
Nicole Stokes
Lisa Polak
Elaine Fuchs
Rockefeller University · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Skin Stem Cells: Purification and CharacterizationR01AR050452 · NIAMS · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI ELAINE FUCHS · 2004 to 2026
$8.6M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR050452
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Increasing evidence suggests that microRNAs may play important roles in regulating self-renewal and differentiation in mammalian stem cells (SCs). Here, we explore this issue in skin. We first characterize microRNA expression profiles of skin SCs versus their committed proliferative progenies and identify a microRNA subset associating with "stemness." Of these, miR-125b is dramatically downregulated in early SC progeny. We engineer an inducible mice system and show that when miR-125b is sustained in SC progenies, tissue balance is reversibly skewed toward stemness at the expense of epidermal, oil-gland, and HF differentiation. Using gain- and loss-of-function in vitro, we further implicate miR-125b as a repressor of SC differentiation. In vivo, transcripts repressed upon miR-125b induction are enriched >700% for predicted miR-125b targets normally downregulated upon SC-lineage commitment. We verify some of these miR-125b targets, and show that Blimp1 and VDR in particular can account for many tissue imbalances we see when miR-125b is deregulated.

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Gene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, Developmental3' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsBinding SitesCell DifferentiationCell LineageCell ProliferationConserved SequenceFlow CytometryHairMiceMice, TransgenicMicroRNAsOrganogenesisPhenotype3' Untranslated RegionsMicroRNAsMirn125 microRNA, mousePositive Regulatory Domain I-Binding Factor 1Prdm1 protein, mouseReceptors, CalcitriolTranscription Factors

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PMID21362569
PMCPMC3086714
OpenAlexW2028990252

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