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1Canadian Institutes of Health Research Group in Skeletal Development and Remodeling, Division of Oral Biology, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5C1, andrew.leask@schulich.uwo.ca.
Abstract:
CCN2 (connective tissue growth factor [CTGF]/hypertrophic chondrocyte-specific gene product 24 [Hcs24]) is regulated at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional level. For example, an element in the its 3' untranslated region (3'-UTR) of the CCN2 mRNA controls message stability in chondrocytes. In a recent study, Mukudai et al. (Mol Cell Biol 28:6134-6147, 2008) purified and identified a trans-factor protein binding to the minimal repressive cis element in the 3'-UTR of ccn2 mRNA and identify this protein as the multifunctional nucleolar phosphoprotein nucleophosmin (NPM) This commentary summarizes these observations.
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