Motor neuron-expressed microRNAs 218 and their enhancers are nested within introns of Slit2/3 genes

Genesis

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 321-328

  Punnamoottil, Beena ^a   Rinkwitz, Silke ^a   Giacomotto, Jean ^a   Svahn, Adam J ^a   Becker, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conserved synteny; Gene duplication; Genomic regulatory blocks; GRB; Long range gene regulation; MicroRNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 218; SLIT PROTEIN; SLIT2 PROTEIN; SLIT3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NERVE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SLIT HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; SLIT3 PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENICS; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTRONS; MICRORNAS; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84929839394     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: 1526968X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvg.22852     Document Type: Article

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