A feedback loop comprising lin-28 and let-7 controls pre-let-7 maturation during neural stem-cell commitment

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 987-993

  Rybak, Agnieszka ^a   Fuchs, Heiko ^a   Smirnova, Lena ^a   Brandt, Christine ^a   Pohl, Elena E ^a   Nitsch, Robert ^a   Wulczyn, F Gregory ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; DICER; MICRORNA; PROTEIN LET 7; PROTEIN LIN 28; PROTEIN LIN 4; PROTEIN MIR 125;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICRORNAS; NEURONS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 48649103982     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1759     Document Type: Article

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