The mir-84 and let-7 paralogous microRNA genes of Caenorhabditis elegans direct the cessation of molting via the conserved nuclear hormone receptors NHR-23 and NHR-25

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 4631-4641

  Hayes, Gabriel D ^a   Frand, Alison R ^a   Ruvkun, Gary ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterochronic pathway; Let 7; microRNAs; mir 84; miRNAs; Molting; NHR 23; NHR 25; Nuclear hormone receptors

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; LET 7 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MIR 84 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR HORMONE RECEPTOR 23; NUCLEAR HORMONE RECEPTOR 25; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LARVAL STAGE; LETHALITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLTING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLTING; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BILATERIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 33846085944     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02655     Document Type: Article

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