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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 187, Issue 12, Pages 6171-6175Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1100835
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- National Institutes of Health [AI50656, HL55417, P01 CA111412]
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MicroRNAs (miRs) have recently been identified as important regulators of gene expression at the posttranscriptional level. Although it has clearly been established that miRs influence the ontogeny of several immune cell lineages, the role of individual miRs during NK cell development has not been described. In this study, we show that miR-181 expression levels have a profound impact on the development of human NK cells from CD34(+) hematopoietic progenitor cells and IFN-gamma production in primary CD56(+) NK cells. We also demonstrate that nemo-like kinase (NLK), an inhibitor of Notch signaling, is a target of miR-181 in NK cells, and knockdown of NLK mirrors the developmental effect of miR-181 overexpression. We conclude that miR-181 promotes NK cell development, at least in part, through the suppression of NLK, providing an important link between miRs and Notch signaling. The Journal of Immunology, 2011, 187: 6171-6175.
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