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SUBMITTER: Yu M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6539702 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Mengying M Zhang Lei L Liu Yingxiang Y Liu Defu D Guo Zekun Z
International journal of molecular sciences 20190426 9
Retinoic acid (RA) plays a key role in pluripotent cell differentiation. In F9 embryonic carcinoma cells, RA can induce differentiation towards somatic lineages via the Ras-extracellular signal-regulated kinase (Ras/Erk) pathway, but the mechanism through which it induces the Erk1/2 phosphorylation is unclear. Here, we show that miR-485 is a positive regulator that targets α/β-hydrolase domain-containing protein 2 (Abhd2), which can result in Erk1/2 phosphorylation and triggers differentiation. ...[more]