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Published on: August 21, 2019
Transcriptional control of microRNA expression in C. elegans: promoting better understanding
Michael J Turner1, Frank J Slack
1Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.
Abstract:
Transcriptional regulation of microRNA (miRNA) expression is one of the least understood aspects of miRNA biogenesis. In C. elegans the list of miRNAs whose transcriptional control has been described in some detail is currently limited to four: let-7, lin-4, lsy-6, and mir-61. Each of these genes has been shown experimentally to be transcriptionaly regulated by cis- and/or trans-acting factors that either promote or inhibit expression. Additionally, computational methods based on conservation among miRNA genes have yielded predicted regulatory sequences in C. elegans that may function to regulate miRNA expression on a genome-wide scale.
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