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SUBMITTER: Lu X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3847575 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lu Xinyan X Li Xiajuan X He Qiuping Q Gao Jiao J Gao Ya Y Liu Bing B Liu Feng F
Cell research 20131029 12
Previous studies on developmental hematopoiesis have mainly focused on signaling and transcription factors, while the appreciation of epigenetic regulation including that of microRNAs is recent. Here, we show that in zebrafish and mouse, miR-142-3p is specifically expressed in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Knockdown of miR-142a-3p in zebrafish led to a reduced population of HSCs in the aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) region as well as T-cell defects in the thymus. Mechanistically, miR-142a-3p r ...[more]