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SUBMITTER: Wada T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3271337 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wada Taeko T Kikuchi Jiro J Furukawa Yusuke Y
EMBO reports 20120201 2
Relatively little is known about the regulatory mechanisms of the Drosha/DGCR8 complex, which processes miRNAs at the initial step of biogenesis. We found that histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) increases the expression levels of mature miRNAs despite repressing the transcription of host genes. HDAC1 is an integral component of the Drosha/DGCR8 complex and enhances miRNA processing by increasing the affinity of DGCR8 to primary miRNA transcripts via deacetylation of critical lysine residues in the RN ...[more]