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Article Dans Une Revue Cell Death and Differentiation Année : 2012

An epistatic mini-circuitry between the transcription factors Snail and HNF4α controls liver stem cell and hepatocyte features exhorting opposite regulation on stemness-inhibiting microRNAs.

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Preservation of the epithelial state involves the stable repression of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition program, whereas maintenance of the stem compartment requires the inhibition of differentiation processes. A simple and direct molecular mini-circuitry between master elements of these biological processes might provide the best device to keep balanced such complex phenomena. In this work, we show that in hepatic stem cell Snail, a transcriptional repressor of the hepatocyte differentiation master gene HNF4α, directly represses the expression of the epithelial microRNAs (miRs)-200c and -34a, which in turn target several stem cell genes. Notably, in differentiated hepatocytes HNF4α, previously identified as a transcriptional repressor of Snail, induces the miRs-34a and -200a, b, c that, when silenced, causes epithelial dedifferentiation and reacquisition of stem traits. Altogether these data unveiled Snail, HNF4α and miRs-200a, b, c and -34a as epistatic elements controlling hepatic stem cell maintenance/differentiation.
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pasteur-00980144 , version 1 (17-04-2014)

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F. Garibaldi, C. Cicchini, A. Conigliaro, L. Santangelo, A. M. Cozzolino, et al.. An epistatic mini-circuitry between the transcription factors Snail and HNF4α controls liver stem cell and hepatocyte features exhorting opposite regulation on stemness-inhibiting microRNAs.. Cell Death and Differentiation, 2012, 19 (6), pp.937-46. ⟨10.1038/cdd.2011.175⟩. ⟨pasteur-00980144⟩

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