A single Hox locus in Drosophila produces functional microRNAs from opposite DNA strands

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 8-13

  Stark, Alexander ^a,b   Bushati, Natascha ^c   Jan, Calvin H ^d   Kheradpour, Pouya ^a,b   Hodges, Emily ^e   Brennecke, Julius ^e   Bartel, David P ^d   Cohen, Stephen M ^c,f   Kellis, Manolis ^a  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Antisense miRNAs; Drosophila; Hox; miR iab 4

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; DNA; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, ANTISENSE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 38149026919     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1613108     Document Type: Article

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