A microRNA controlling left/right neuronal asymmetry in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6968, 2003, Pages 845-849

  Johnston, Robert J ^a   Hobert, Oliver ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGY;

CHEMORECEPTOR EXPRESSIONS;

RNA;

MICRORNA;

NERVOUS SYSTEM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HOMEOBOX; LSY 6 GENE; MUTANT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TASTE BUD;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; MICRORNAS; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0347357618     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02255     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Yu, S., Avery, L., Baude, E. #38; Garbers, D. L. Guanylyl cyclase expression in specific sensory neurons: a new family of chemosensory receptors. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 94, 3384-3387 (1997).
2. Pierce-Shimomura, J. T., Faumont, S., Gaston, M. R., Pearson, B. J. #38; Lockery, S. R. The homeobox gene lim-6 is required for distinct chemosensory representations in C. Elegans. Nature 410, 694-698 (2001).
3. Chang, S., Johnston, R. J. Jr #38; Hobert, O. A transcriptional regulatory cascade that controls left/right asymmetry in chemosensory neurons of C. Elegans. Genes Dev. 17, 2123-2137 (2003).
4. Halpern, M. E., Liang, J. O. #38; Gamse, J. T. Leaning to the left: laterality in the zebrafish forebrain. Trends Neurosci. 26, 308-313 (2003).
5. Yost, H. J. Left-right development from embryos to brains. Dev. Genet. 23, 159-163 (1998).
6. Hobert, O., Johnston, R. J. Jr #38; Chang, S. Left-right asymmetry in the nervous system: The Caenorhabditis elegans model. Nature Rev. Neurosci. 3, 629-640 (2002).
7. Bargmann, C. I. #38; Horvitz, H. R. Chemosensory neurons with overlapping functions direct chemotaxis to multiple chemicals in C. Elegans. Neuron 7, 729-742 (1991).
8. White, J. G., Southgate, E., Thomson, J. N. #38; Brenner, S. The structure of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 314, 1-340 (1986).
9. Hobert, O., Tessmar, K. #38; Ruvkun, G. The Caenorhabditis elegans lim-6 LIM homeobox gene regulates neurite outgrowth and function of particular GABAergic neurons. Development 126, 1547-1562 (1999).
10. Troemel, E. R., Sagasti, A. #38; Bargmann, C. I. Lateral signaling mediated by axon contact and calcium entry regulates asymmetric odorant receptor expression in C. Elegans. Cell 99, 387-398 (1999).
11. Wicks, S. R., Yeh, R. T., Gish, W. R., Waterston, R. H. #38; Plasterk, R. H. Rapid gene mapping in Caenorhabditis elegans using a high density polymorphism map. Nature Genet. 28, 160-164 (2001).
12. Lee, R. C., Feinbaum, R. L. #38; Ambros, V. The C. Elegans heterochronic gene lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to lin-14. Cell 75, 843-854 (1993).
13. Olsen, P. H. #38; 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, 671-680 (1999).
14. Ambros, V., Lee, R. C., Lavanway, A., Williams, P. T. #38; Jewell, D. MicroRNAs and other tiny endogenous RNAs in C. Elegans. Curr. Biol. 13, 807-818 (2003).
15. Lim, L. P. et al. The microRNAs of Caenorhabditis elegans. Genes Dev. 17, 991-1008 (2003).
16. Grad, Y. et al. Computational and experimental identification of C. Elegans microRNAs. Mol. Cell 11, 1253-1263 (2003).
17. Lau, N. C., Lim, L. P., Weinstein, E. G. #38; Bartel, D. P. An abundant class of tiny RNAs with probable regulatory roles in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science 294, 858-862 (2001).
18. Johnson, S. M., Lin, S. Y. #38; Slack, F. J. The time of appearance of the C. Elegans let-7 microRNA is transcriptionally controlled utilizing a temporal regulatory element in its promoter. Dev. Biol. 259, 364-379 (2003).
19. Lanjuin, A., VanHoven, M. K., Bargmann, C. I., Thompson, J. K. #38; Sengupta, P. Otx/otd homeobox genes specify distinct sensory neuron identities in C. Elegans. Dev. Cell 5, 621-633 (2003).
20. Stark, A., Brennecke, J., Russell, R. B. #38; Cohen, S. M. Identification of Drosphila MicroRNA targets. PLOS Biol. Online publication 13 October 2003 (doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0000060).
21. Palmer, R. E., Inoue, T., Sherwood, D. R., Jiang, L. I. #38; Sternberg, P. W. Caenorhabditis elegans cog-1 locus encodes GTX/Nkx6.1 homeodomain proteins and regulates multiple aspects of reproductive system development. Dev. Biol. 252, 202-213 (2002).
22. Hobert, O. PCR fusion-based approach to create reporter gene constructs for expression analysis in transgenic C. Elegans. Biotechniques 32, 728-730 (2002).