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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 40, Issue 16, Pages 8048-8058Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks521
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- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council [1022144, 1006590, 606425]
- Victorian Government
- Health Research Board Ireland
- Monash Institute of Medical Research
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Fine-tuning of inflammatory responses by microRNAs (miRNAs) is complex, as they can both enhance and repress expression of pro-inflammatory mediators. In this study, we investigate inflammatory responses following global miRNA depletion, to better define the overall contribution of miRNAs to inflammation. We demonstrate that miRNAs positively regulate Toll-like receptor signaling using inducible Dicer1 deletion and global miRNA depletion. We establish an important contribution of miR-19b in this effect, which potentiates nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B) activity in human and mouse cells. Positive regulation of NF-kappa B signaling by miR-19b involves the coordinated suppression of a regulon of negative regulators of NF-kappa B signaling (including A20/Tnfaip3, Rnf11, Fbxl11/Kdm2a and Zbtb16). Transfection of miR-19b mimics exacerbated the inflammatory activation of rheumatoid arthritis primary fibroblast-like synoviocytes, demonstrating its physiological importance in the pathology of this disease. This study constitutes, to our knowledge, the first description of a miR-19 regulon that controls NF-kappa B signaling, and suggests that targeting this miRNA and linked family members could regulate the activity of NF-kappa B signaling in inflammation.
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