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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 11, Pages 1134-1141Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.3293
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- National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia [637338, 1004541, 1042211, 1079586, 1037321, 1043414, 1080321]
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation [5-2011-100]
- Diabetes Australia Research Trust [Y13G-CHOM]
- Australian Research Council
- Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Support
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Research Institute Infrastructure Support Scheme
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1079586, 1080321] Funding Source: NHMRC
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To investigate if the microRNA (miRNA) pathway is required for dendritic cell (DC) development, we assessed the effect of ablating Drosha and Dicer, the two enzymes central to miRNA biogenesis. We found that while Dicer deficiency had some effect, Drosha deficiency completely halted DC development and halted myelopoiesis more generally. This indicated that while the miRNA pathway did have a role, it was a non-miRNA function of Drosha that was particularly critical. Drosha repressed the expression of two mRNAs encoding inhibitors of myelopoiesis in early hematopoietic progenitors. We found that Drosha directly cleaved stem-loop structure within these mRNAs and that this mRNA degradation was necessary for myelopoiesis. We have therefore identified a mechanism that regulates the development of DCs and other myeloid cells.
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