The 21-nucleotide let-7 RNA regulates developmental timing in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6772, 2000, Pages 901-906

  Reinhart, Brenda J ^a   Slack, Frank J ^a,f   Basson, Michael ^b,d   Pasquienelll, Amy E ^a   Bettlnger, Jill C ^c,e   Rougvle, Ann E ^c   Horvitz, H Robert ^b   Ruvkun, Gary ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Axys Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FATE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SWITCHING; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, SWITCH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034708122     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35002607     Document Type: Article

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