MicroRNAs: From Female Fertility, Germ Cells, and Stem Cells to Cancer in Humans

Table 1

MiRNAs regulating pluripotency and differentiation of hESCs.

Genes related to pluripotency						References
OCT4	NANOG	SOX2	KLF4	LEFTY	NR2F2
Maintenance of pluripotency
miR-203	miR-203					[82]
Regulation of stem cell renewal and differentiation
	miR-200c					[83]
Delay of differentiation, balance between differentiation and pluripotency
				miR-302s		[84]
Low in self-renewal and high during differentiation
miR-145		miR-145	miR-145			[85]
Regulation of cell cycle genes in pluripotent stem cells
miR-302a		miR-302a				[86]
Balance between pluripotency and differentiation, NR2F2 critical for neural gene activation
miR-302					miR-302	[87]