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Selected PublicationsRNA DNA Asuragen


Akao, Y., Y. Nakagawa, and T. Naoe. 2006. let-7 microRNA functions as a potential growth suppressor in human colon cancer cells. Biol Pharm Bull 29:903-6.


Akao, Y., Y. Nakagawa, and T. Naoe. 2006. MicroRNAs 143 and 145 are possible common onco-microRNAs in human cancers. Oncol Rep 16:845-50.


Calin, G. A., C. Sevignani, C. D. Dumitru, T. Hyslop, E. Noch, S. Yendamuri, M. Shimizu, S. Rattan, F. Bullrich, M. Negrini, and C. M. Croce. 2004. Human microRNA genes are frequently located at fragile sites and genomic regions involved in cancers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:2999-3004.


Chan, J. A., A. M. Krichevsky, and K. S. Kosik. 2005. MicroRNA-21 is an antiapoptotic factor in human glioblastoma cells. Cancer Res 65:6029-33.

Cimmino, A., G. A. Calin, M. Fabbri, M. V. Iorio, M. Ferracin, M. Shimizu, S. E. Wojcik, R. I. Aqeilan, S. Zupo, M. Dono, L. Rassenti, H. Alder, S. Volinia, C. G. Liu, T. J. Kipps, M. Negrini, and C. M. Croce. 2005. miR-15 and miR-16 induce apoptosis by targeting BCL2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:13944-9.


Costinean, S., N. Zanesi, Y. Pekarsky, E. Tili, S. Volinia, N. Heerema, and C. M. Croce. 2006. Pre-B cell proliferation and lymphoblastic leukemia/high-grade lymphoma in E(mu)-miR155 transgenic mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:7024-9.


Dews, M., A. Homayouni, D. Yu, D. Murphy, C. Sevignani, E. Wentzel, E. E. Furth, W. M. Lee, G. H. Enders, J. T. Mendell, and A. Thomas-Tikhonenko. 2006. Augmentation of tumor angiogenesis by a Myc-activated microRNA cluster. Nat Genet 38:1060-5.

Hayashita, Y., H. Osada, Y. Tatematsu, H. Yamada, K. Yanagisawa, S. Tomida, Y. Yatabe, K. Kawahara, Y. Sekido, and T. Takahashi. 2005. A polycistronic microRNA cluster, miR-17-92, is overexpressed in human lung cancers and enhances cell proliferation. Cancer Res 65:9628-32.

He, L., J. M. Thomson, M. T. Hemann, E. Hernando-Monge, D. Mu, S. Goodson, S. Powers, C. Cordon-Cardo, S. W. Lowe, G. J. Hannon, and S. M. Hammond. 2005. A microRNA polycistron as a potential human oncogene. Nature 435:828-33.

Hossain, A., M. T. Kuo, and G. F. Saunders. 2006. Mir-17-5p regulates breast cancer cell proliferation by inhibiting translation of AIB1 mRNA. Mol Cell Biol 26:8191-201.

Johnson, S. M., H. Grosshans, J. Shingara, M. Byrom, R. Jarvis, A. Cheng, E. Labourier, K. L. Reinert, D. Brown, and F. J. Slack. 2005. RAS is regulated by the let-7 microRNA family. Cell 120:635-47.

Krutzfeldt, J., N. Rajewsky, R. Braich, K. G. Rajeev, T. Tuschl, M. Manoharan, and M. Stoffel. 2005. Silencing of microRNAs in vivo with 'antagomirs'. Nature 438:685-9.

Lu, J., G. Getz, E. A. Miska, E. Alvarez-Saavedra, J. Lamb, D. Peck, A. Sweet-Cordero, B. L. Ebert, R. H. Mak, A. A. Ferrando, J. R. Downing, T. Jacks, H. R. Horvitz, and T. R. Golub. 2005. MicroRNA expression profiles classify human cancers. Nature 435:834.

Mayr, C., M. T. Hemann, and D. P. Bartel. 2007. Disrupting the pairing between let-7 and Hmga2 enhances oncogenic transformation. Science 315:1576-9.

Volinia, S., G. A. Calin, C. G. Liu, S. Ambs, A. Cimmino, F. Petrocca, R. Visone, M. Iorio, C. Roldo, M. Ferracin, R. L. Prueitt, N. Yanaihara, G. Lanza, A. Scarpa, A. Vecchione, M. Negrini, C. C. Harris, and C. M. Croce. 2006. A microRNA expression signature of human solid tumors defines cancer gene targets. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:2257-61.

Voorhoeve, P. M., C. le Sage, M. Schrier, A. J. Gillis, H. Stoop, R. Nagel, Y. P. Liu, J. van Duijse, J. Drost, A. Griekspoor, E. Zlotorynski, N. Yabuta, G. De Vita, H. Nojima, L. H. Looijenga, and R. Agami. 2006. A genetic screen implicates miRNA-372 and miRNA-373 as oncogenes in testicular germ cell tumors. Cell 124:1169-81

Welch, C., Y. Chen, and R. L. Stallings. 2007. MicroRNA-34a functions as a potential tumor suppressor by inducing apoptosis in neuroblastoma cells. Oncogene 2007 Jul 26;26 (34):5017-22.

Yanaihara, N., N. Caplen, E. Bowman, M. Seike, K. Kumamoto, M. Yi, R. M. Stephens, A. Okamoto, J. Yokota, T. Tanaka, G. A. Calin, C. G. Liu, C. M. Croce, and C. C. Harris. 2006. Unique microRNA molecular profiles in lung cancer diagnosis and prognosis. Cancer Cell 9:189-98.