The time of appearance of the C. elegans let-7 microRNA is transcriptionally controlled utilizing a temporal regulatory element in its promoter

Developmental Biology

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 364-379

  Johnson, Steven M ^a   Lin, Shin Yi ^a   Slack, Frank J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Heterochronic gene; let 7; miRNA; stRNA; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENHANCER REGION; FUSION GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; UPREGULATION;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0037772254     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(03)00202-1     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Ambros V. microRNAs tiny regulators with great potential . Cell. 107:2001;823-826.
2. Ambros V., Horvitz H.R. Heterochronic mutants of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Science. 226:1984;409-416.
3. Antebi A., Culotti J.G., Hedgecock E.M. daf-12 regulates developmental age and the dauer alternative in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development. 125:1998;1191-1205.
4. Antebi A., Yeh W.H., Tait D., Hedgecock E.M., Riddle D.L. daf-12 encodes a nuclear receptor that regulates the dauer diapause and developmental age in C. elegans. Genes Dev. 14:2000;1512-1527.
5. Asahina M., Ishihara T., Jindra M., Kohara Y., Katsura I., Hirose S. The conserved nuclear receptor Ftz-F1 is required for embryogenesis, moulting and reproduction in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genes Cells. 5:2000;711-723.
6. Banerjee D., Slack F. Control of developmental timing by small temporal RNAs a paradigm for RNA-mediated regulation of gene expression . BioEssays. 24:2002;119-129.
7. Feinbaum R., Ambros V. The timing of lin-4 RNA accumulation controls the timing of postembryonic developmental events in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev. Biol. 210:1999;87-95.
8. Gissendanner C.R., Sluder A.E. nhr-25, the Caenorhabditis elegans ortholog of ftz-f1, is required for epidermal and somatic gonad development. Dev. Biol. 221:2000;259-272.
9. Grishok A., Pasquinelli A.E., Conte D., Li N., Parrish S., Ha I., Baillie D.L., Fire A., Ruvkun G., Mello C.C. Genes and mechanisms related to RNA interference regulate expression of the small temporal RNAs that control C. elegans developmental timing. Cell. 106:2001;23-34.
10. Grosshans H., Slack F.J. Micro-RNAs small is plentiful . J. Cell Biol. 156:2002;17-22.
11. Hutvagner G., McLachlan J., Pasquinelli A.E., Balint E., Tuschl T., Zamore P.D. A cellular function for the RNA-interference enzyme Dicer in the maturation of the let-7 small temporal RNA. Science. 293:2001;834-838.
12. Ketting R.F., Fischer S.E., Bernstein E., Sijen T., Hannon G.J., Plasterk R.H. Dicer functions in RNA interference and in synthesis of small RNA involved in developmental timing in C. elegans. Genes Dev. 15:2001;2654-2659.
13. Kostrouchova M., Krause M., Kostrouch Z., Rall J.E. Nuclear hormone receptor CHR3 is a critical regulator of all four larval molts of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 98:2001;7360-7365.
14. Lagos-Quintana M., Rauhut R., Lendeckel W., Tuschl T. Identification of novel genes coding for small expressed RNAs. Science. 294:2001;853-858.
15. Lau N.C., Lim L.P., Weinstein E.G., Bartel D.P. An abundant class of tiny RNAs with probable regulatory roles in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science. 294:2001;858-862.
16. Lee R.C., Ambros V. An extensive class of small RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science. 294:2001;862-864.
17. Lee R.C., Feinbaum R.L., Ambros V. The C. elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to lin-14. Cell. 75:1993;843-854.
18. Miyabayashi T., Palfreyman M.T., Sluder A.E., Slack F., Sengupta P. Expression and function of members of a divergent nuclear receptor family in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev. Biol. 215:1999;314-331.
19. Moss E.G., Lee R.C., Ambros V. The cold shock domain protein LIN-28 controls developmental timing in C. elegans and is regulated by the lin-4 RNA. Cell. 88:1997;637-646.
20. Olsen P.H., Ambros V. The lin-4 regulatory RNA controls developmental timing in Caenorhabditis elegans by blocking LIN-14 protein synthesis after the initiation of translation. Dev. Biol. 216:1999;671-680.
21. Pasquinelli A., Reinhart B., Slack F., Maller B., Ruvkun G. Conservation across animal phylogeny of the sequence and temporal regulation of the 21 nucleotide C. elegans let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA. Nature. 408:2000;86-89.
22. Reinhart B., Slack F., Basson M., Pasquinelli A., Bettinger J., Rougvie A., Horvitz R., Ruvkun G. The 21 nucleotide let-7 RNA regulates C. elegans developmental timing. Nature. 403:2000;901-906.
23. Slack F., Ruvkun G. Temporal pattern formation by heterochronic genes. Annu. Rev. Genet. 31:1997;611-634.
24. Slack F.J., Basson M., Liu Z., Ambros V., Horvitz H.R., Ruvkun G. The lin-41 RBCC gene acts in the C. elegans heterochronic pathway between the let-7 regulatory RNA and the lin-29 transcription factor. Mol. Cell. 5:2000;659-669.
25. Sluder A.E., Maina C.V. Nuclear receptors in nematodes themes and variations . Trends Genet. 17:2001;206-213.
26. Snow M.I., Larsen P.L. Structure and expression of daf-12 a nuclear hormone receptor with three isoforms that are involved in development and aging in Caenorhabditis elegans . Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1494:2000;104-116.
27. Wightman B., Ha I., Ruvkun G. Posttranscriptional regulation of the heterochronic gene lin-14 by lin-4 mediates temporal pattern formation in C. elegans. Cell. 75:1993;855-862.