Caenorhabditis elegans period homolog lin-42 regulates the timing of heterochronic miRNA expression

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 43, 2014, Pages 15450-15455

  McCulloch, Katherine A ^a   Rougvie, Ann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Heterochronic; let 7; lin 42; miRNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 48; MICRORNA LET 7; MICRORNA LIN 42; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LET-7 MICRORNA, C ELEGANS; LIN-42 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIPTERA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WORM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EPISTASIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LARVA; MICRORNAS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84908519209     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414856111     Document Type: Article

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