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Potential relevance of microRNAs in inter-species epigenetic communication, and implications for disease pathogenesis.
RNA biology - 3 Apr 2017
Perge Pál, Nagy Zoltán, Decmann Ábel, Igaz Ivan, Igaz Peter
Abstract excerpt
MicroRNAs are short non-protein coding RNA molecules involved in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression. Recently, extracellular microRNAs have been described in body fluids that might enable epigenetic communication between distant tissues. Being highly conserved molecules, exogenous xeno-microRNAs from different species could affect gene expression in the host even in a cross-kingdom fashion. Several data...
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