Two genetic circuits repress the Caenorhabditis elegans heterochronic gene lin-28 after translation initiation

K Seggerson, L Tang, EG Moss - Developmental biology, 2002 - Elsevier
… Here, we show that lin-28 is repressed during normal development by a mechanism that
acts on its mRNA after translation initiation. We provide evidence that lin-14 inhibits a negative …

Genome-wide studies reveal that Lin28 enhances the translation of genes important for growth and survival of human embryonic stem cells

S Peng, LL Chen, XX Lei, L Yang, H Lin… - Stem …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Lin28-dependent stimulation of translation in a reporter system [15]. To determine whether
EEF1G, HMGA1, and RPS13 mRNAs also contain LREs, we initiated … the translation in a Lin28

Lin-28 binds IGF-2 mRNA and participates in skeletal myogenesis by increasing translation efficiency

A Polesskaya, S Cuvellier, I Naguibneva… - Genes & …, 2007 - genesdev.cshlp.org
… To evaluate the interaction between the translation initiation factor eIF3β and Lin-28 under
physiological conditions, we have immunoprecipitated eIF3β from differentiating PMs and …

LIN28: roles and regulation in development and beyond

J Tsialikas, J Romer-Seibert - Development, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
lin-28 is also regulated at this stage by lin-4 and lin-14. (B) In the let-7-dependent pathway,
… Additionally, LIN28 can bind the translation initiation factor eIF3β, although how this …

Divergent LIN28-mRNA associations result in translational suppression upon the initiation of differentiation

SM Tan, G Altschuler, TY Zhao, HS Ang… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
LIN28 is a key translational determinant of the initiation of hESC differentiation. Although
most of the LIN28-… The cold shock domain protein LIN-28 controls developmental timing in C. …

[HTML][HTML] Lin28: primal regulator of growth and metabolism in stem cells

N Shyh-Chang, GQ Daley - Cell stem cell, 2013 - cell.com
… Current insights into Lin28 rest heavily on precedents in C. elegans genetics. Lin-28 was
first … let-7 homologs phenocopied lin-28 gain of function in the hypodermal stem cells and lin-…

Lin28-mediated post-transcriptional regulation of Oct4 expression in human embryonic stem cells

C Qiu, Y Ma, J Wang, S Peng, Y Huang - Nucleic acids research, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Lin28 as a target-specific translational regulator (15–17), the precise mechanism underlying
the process is unclear. The finding that Lin28 interacts with the translation initiation … vivo (28)…

[HTML][HTML] The LIN28/let-7 pathway in cancer

J Balzeau, MR Menezes, S Cao, JP Hagan - Frontiers in genetics, 2017 - frontiersin.org
… through interactions with translation initiation complexes. In human … Lin28 was shown to
be more resistant to paclitaxel. While stable expression of Lin28 in cancer cells with low Lin 28

Liver cancer initiation requires translational activation by an oncofetal regulon involving LIN28 proteins

…, Y Wei, L Li, LH Nguyen, YH Lin… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Lin-28 was first identified in C. elegans as a heterochronic factor that regulates … -induced
HCC initiation. To determine if LIN28 proteins are required for tumor initiation, we generated …

The lin-4 regulatory RNA controls developmental timing in Caenorhabditis elegans by blocking LIN-14 protein synthesis after the initiation of translation

PH Olsen, V Ambros - Developmental biology, 1999 - Elsevier
… of lin-4 RNA with the 3 UTR of lin-14 mRNA permits normal biogenesis of lin-14 mRNA, and
normal translational initiation, … lin-4 also represses translation of lin-28 mRNA, and lin-28 is …