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Sequences of a hairpin structure in the 3'-untranslated region mediate regulation of human pulmonary surfactant protein B mRNA stability.
American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology - 15 May 2012
Huang Helen W, Payne David E, Bi Weizhen, Pan Su, Bruce Shirley R, Alcorn Joseph L
Abstract excerpt
The ability of pulmonary surfactant to reduce alveolar surface tension requires adequate expression of surfactant protein B (SP-B). Dexamethasone (DEX, 10(-7) M) increases human SP-B mRNA stability by a mechanism that requires a 126-nt-long segment (the 7.6S region) of the 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR). The objective of this study was to identify sequences in the 7.6S region that mediate regulation of SP-B mRNA...
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