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Published on: March 14, 2017
Post-transcriptional regulation of the parathyroid hormone gene by calcium and phosphate
1Minerva Center for Calcium and Bone Metabolism, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. tally@cc.huji.ac.il
Abstract:
Parathyroid hormone messenger RNA levels are regulated by calcium, phosphate and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. Dietary induced hypocalcaemia increases and hypophosphataemia decreases parathyroid hormone mRNA levels post-transcriptionally. This regulation is mediated by binding of parathyroid cytosolic proteins to the parathyroid hormone mRNA 3'-untranslated region, and in particular the terminal 60 nucleotides of the 3'-untranslated region, thereby determining RNA stability.
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