Developmental RNA processing of 3′UTRs in Hox mRNAs as a context-dependent mechanism modulating visibility to microRNAs

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2951-2960

  Thomsen, Stefan ^a   Azzam, Ghows ^a   Kaschula, Richard ^a   Williams, Lucy S ^a   Alonso, Claudio R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 UTR; Drosophila; Hox; MiRNA; Ultrabithorax

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HOX GENE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; ULTRABITHORAX GENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77956203735     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.047324     Document Type: Article

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