摘要
干细胞根据其所处的发育阶段可分为胚胎干细胞（embryonic stem cell，ESCs）和成体干细胞（somatic stem cell），具有自我复制能力和多向分化潜能，因此，被认为可修复、重建组织器官。近年有大量研究致力于诱导干细胞分化为各种成体细胞，但诱导过程繁琐与分化效率低下一直困扰着科研人员。MicroRNAs（miRNAs）是在真核生物中发现的一类内源性的具有调控功能的非编码RNA，其大小长约20～25个核苷酸。研究表明miRNA可通过抑制干细胞靶mRNA序列的翻译或者降解靶mRNA来调控干细胞的诱导与分化。因此，调控miRNAs的表达水平可影响分化过程。现就miRNA调控干细胞向成体细胞分化的研究现状和机制作一综述。
According to the developmental stage, stem cells with the capacity of self-renewal and multilineage differentiation, can be divided into embryonic stem cells and somatic stem cells. It is generally considered that stem cells can repair tissues and organs. In recent years, there is a large amount of research on inducing stem cells into all kinds of somatic stem cells, but the researchers has been plagued by complicated induction process and low differentiation efficiency. MicroRNAs （miRNAs） are 20-25 nucleotide （nt） endogenous small non-coding RNAs that negatively regulate gene expression in eukaryote. Recent studies have shown that miRNA can repress the translation of target mRNAs or degrade it to regulate the induction and differentiation of stem cells, thus regulating the expression levels of miRNAs can affect the differentiation process. In this paper, the research status and mechanism ofmiRNAs in somatic stem cells were reviewed.
出处
《生命科学》
CSCD
2015年第10期1255-1260,共6页
Chinese Bulletin of Life Sciences
基金
国家自然科学基金项目(81270857)
广东省自然科学基金项目(S2013010014832)
深圳市科技计划项目(201402018)
