microRNA miR-14 acts to modulate a positive autoregulatory loop controlling steroid hormone signaling in Drosophila

Genes and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 2277-2282

  Varghese, Jishy ^a,b   Cohen, Stephen M ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Autorgulatory feedback loop; Ecdysone; MicroRNA; Steroid hormone

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 14; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; DROSOPHILA; ECR GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HORMONAL REGULATION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECDYSONE; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICRORNAS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34548863687     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.439807     Document Type: Article

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