A negative regulatory loop between MicroRNA and Hox Gene controls posterior identities in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Zhao, Zhongying ^a   Boyle, Thomas J ^a   Liu, Zongzhi ^b,c   Murray, John I ^a   Wood, William B ^b   Waterston, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 57; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NOB 1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY PATTERNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENETIC LOCI; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 78049430042     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001089     Document Type: Article

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