Posttranscriptional regulation of the heterochronic gene lin-14 by lin-4 mediates temporal pattern formation in C. elegans - PubMed (original) (raw)
Comparative Study
. 1993 Dec 3;75(5):855-62.
doi: 10.1016/0092-8674(93)90530-4.
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- PMID: 8252622
- DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(93)90530-4
Comparative Study
Posttranscriptional regulation of the heterochronic gene lin-14 by lin-4 mediates temporal pattern formation in C. elegans
B Wightman et al. Cell. 1993.
Abstract
During C. elegans development, the temporal pattern of many cell lineages is specified by graded activity of the heterochronic gene Lin-14. Here we demonstrate that a temporal gradient in Lin-14 protein is generated posttranscriptionally by multiple elements in the lin-14 3'UTR that are regulated by the heterochronic gene Lin-4. The lin-14 3'UTR is both necessary and sufficient to confer lin-4-mediated posttranscriptional temporal regulation. The function of the lin-14 3'UTR is conserved between C. elegans and C. briggsae. Among the conserved sequences are seven elements that are each complementary to the lin-4 RNAs. A reporter gene bearing three of these elements shows partial temporal gradient activity. These data suggest a molecular mechanism for Lin-14p temporal gradient formation: the lin-4 RNAs base pair to sites in the lin-14 3'UTR to form multiple RNA duplexes that down-regulate lin-14 translation.
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Ruvkun G, Wightman B, Ha I. Ruvkun G, et al. Cell. 2004 Jan 23;116(2 Suppl):S93-6, 2 p following S96. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(04)00034-0. Cell. 2004. PMID: 15055593 No abstract available.
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