Biology:Pinc

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Short description: Pregnancy-induced noncoding RNA
Pregnancy induced noncoding RNA
Identifiers
Organismmouse
SymbolPinc
Entrez723792
RefSeq (mRNA)NR_003202
Other data
Chromosome1: 73.44 - 73.45 Mb

Pinc (pregnancy induced noncoding RNA) is a long non-coding RNA. It was originally identified in the mammary glands of oestrogen and progesterone-treated rats.[1] Pinc may be a mammal-specific gene. It is conserved in a number of mammalian genomes (human, mouse, rat, chimpanzee, dog, cow and opossum), but not in fugu, zebrafish or xenopus genomes.[2]

In mice, Pinc is expressed in the developing embryo and in the mammary glands of adults. Its expression in the mammary gland is induced by pregnancy and drops during lactation. It may have a role in cell survival and in the regulation of cell cycle progression.[2]

See also

  • Long noncoding RNA

References

  1. "Persistent changes in gene expression induced by estrogen and progesterone in the rat mammary gland". Mol. Endocrinol. 15 (11): 1993–2009. November 2001. doi:10.1210/mend.15.11.0724. PMID 11682629. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "A noncoding RNA is a potential marker of cell fate during mammary gland development". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103 (15): 5781–5786. April 2006. doi:10.1073/pnas.0600745103. PMID 16574773. Bibcode2006PNAS..103.5781G. 

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