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An interactive network of long non-coding RNAs facilitates the Drosophila sex determination decision.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Sept 2014
Mulvey Brett B, Olcese Ursula, Cabrera Janel R, Horabin Jamila I
Abstract excerpt
Genome analysis in several eukaryotes shows a surprising number of transcripts which do not encode conventional messenger RNAs. Once considered noise, these non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) appear capable of controlling gene expression by various means. We find that Drosophila sex determination, specifically the master-switch gene Sex-lethal (Sxl), is regulated by long ncRNAs (>200nt). The lncRNAs influence the dose...
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