Turning 21: induction of miR-21 as a key switch in the inflammatory response

FJ Sheedy - Frontiers in immunology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
miR-21 is one of the most highly expressed members of the small non-coding microRNA
family in many mammalian cell types. Its expression is further enhanced in many diseased …

MicroRNAs: the fine-tuners of Toll-like receptor signalling

LA O'neill, FJ Sheedy, CE McCoy - Nature reviews immunology, 2011 - nature.com
Toll-like receptor (TLR) signalling must be tightly regulated to avoid excessive inflammation
and to allow for tissue repair and the return to homeostasis after infection and tissue injury …

Negative regulation of TLR4 via targeting of the proinflammatory tumor suppressor PDCD4 by the microRNA miR-21

FJ Sheedy, E Palsson-McDermott, EJ Hennessy… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
The tumor suppressor PDCD4 is a proinflammatory protein that promotes activation of the
transcription factor NF-κB and suppresses interleukin 10 (IL-10). Here we found that mice …

MicroRNA function in cancer: oncogene or a tumor suppressor?

SK Shenouda, SK Alahari - Cancer and metastasis reviews, 2009 - Springer
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding, double-stranded RNA molecules that can
mediate the expression of target genes with complementary sequences. About 5,300 human …

The evolution of gene regulation by transcription factors and microRNAs

K Chen, N Rajewsky - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the patterns of gene expression are widely believed to underlie many of
the phenotypic differences within and between species. Although much emphasis has been …

Inflammation and cancer: interweaving microRNA, free radical, cytokine and p53 pathways

AJ Schetter, NHH Heegaard, CC Harris - Carcinogenesis, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Chronic inflammation and infection are major causes of cancer. There are continued
improvements to our understanding of the molecular connections between inflammation and …

Identification of miRNA changes in Alzheimer's disease brain and CSF yields putative biomarkers and insights into disease pathways

JP Cogswell, J Ward, IA Taylor… - Journal of …, 2008 - content.iospress.com
MicroRNAs have essential functional roles in brain development and neuronal specification
but their roles in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) is unknown …

A synonymous variant in IRGM alters a binding site for miR-196 and causes deregulation of IRGM-dependent xenophagy in Crohn's disease

P Brest, P Lapaquette, M Souidi, K Lebrigand… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Susceptibility to Crohn's disease, a complex inflammatory disease, is influenced by common
variants at many loci. The common exonic synonymous SNP (c. 313C> T) in IRGM, found in …

Sex and gender disparities in melanoma

M Bellenghi, R Puglisi, G Pontecorvi, A De Feo, A Carè… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Worldwide, the total incidence of cutaneous melanoma is higher in men than in women, with
some differences related to ethnicity and age and, above all, sex and gender. Differences …

A guide to miRNAs in inflammation and innate immune responses

C Nejad, HJ Stunden, MP Gantier - The FEBS journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of micro RNA s (miRNAs) in the early 1990's has revolutionized our thinking
of post‐transcriptional gene control. miRNAs are involved in the regulation of almost every …