Article
miRNAs cooperate in apoptosis regulation during C. elegans development.
Genes & development - 15 Jan 2017
Sherrard Ryan, Luehr Sebastian, Holzkamp Heinke, McJunkin Katherine, Memar Nadin, Conradt Barbara
Abstract excerpt
Programmed cell death occurs in a highly reproducible manner during Caenorhabditis elegans development. We demonstrate that, during embryogenesis, miR-35 and miR-58 bantam family microRNAs (miRNAs) cooperate to prevent the precocious death of mothers of cells programmed to die by repressing the gene egl-1, which encodes a proapoptotic BH3-only protein. In addition, we present evidence that repression of egl-1 is...
Topics
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Caenorhabditis elegans
- Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
- Cell Lineage
- Embryo, Nonmammalian
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- MicroRNAs
- Mutation
- Phenotype
