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Distinct roles of heterogeneous nuclear ribonuclear protein K and microRNA-16 in cyclooxygenase-2 RNA stability induced by S100b, a ligand of the receptor for advanced glycation end products.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 26 Dec 2008
Shanmugam Narkunaraja, Reddy Marpadga A, Natarajan Rama
Abstract excerpt
Advanced glycation end products play major roles in diabetic complications. They act via their receptor RAGE to induce inflammatory genes such as cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2). We examined the molecular mechanisms by which the RAGE ligand, S100b, induces COX-2 in monocytes. S100b significantly increased COX-2 mRNA accumulation in THP-1 monocytes at 2 h via mRNA stability. This was further confirmed by showing that...
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