Regulation of the Caenorhabditis elegans posterior Hox gene egl-5 by microRNA and the polycomb-like gene sop-2

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 238, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 595-603

  Zhang, Hongjie ^a,b   Emmons, Scott W ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Hox gene; microRNA; Polycomb protein; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; EGL 5 GENE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOX GENE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA BINDING; SOP 2 GENE; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LARVA; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 61649090453     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21876     Document Type: Article

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