The evolution of gene regulation by transcription factors and microRNAs

K Chen, N Rajewsky - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2007 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the patterns of gene expression are widely believed to underlie many of
the phenotypic differences within and between species. Although much emphasis has been …

miRBase: tools for microRNA genomics

S Griffiths-Jones, HK Saini, S Van Dongen… - Nucleic acids …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Abstract miRBase is the central online repository for microRNA (miRNA) nomenclature,
sequence data, annotation and target prediction. The current release (10.0) contains 5071 …

MicroRNA targeting specificity in mammals: determinants beyond seed pairing

A Grimson, KKH Farh, WK Johnston, P Garrett-Engele… - Molecular cell, 2007 - cell.com
Mammalian microRNAs (miRNAs) pair to 3′ UTRs of mRNAs to direct their
posttranscriptional repression. Important for target recognition are∼ 7 nt sites that match the …

Mammalian mirtron genes

E Berezikov, WJ Chung, J Willis, E Cuppen, EC Lai - Molecular cell, 2007 - cell.com
Mirtrons are alternative precursors for microRNA biogenesis that were recently described in
invertebrates. These short hairpin introns use splicing to bypass Drosha cleavage, which is …

Endogenous microRNA can be broadly exploited to regulate transgene expression according to tissue, lineage and differentiation state

BD Brown, B Gentner, A Cantore, S Colleoni… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
We have shown previously that transgene expression can be suppressed in hematopoietic
cells using vectors that are responsive to microRNA (miRNA) regulation. Here we …

miRNA profiling of naive, effector and memory CD8 T cells

H Wu, JR Neilson, P Kumar, M Manocha, P Shankar… - PloS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
microRNAs have recently emerged as master regulators of gene expression during
development and cell differentiation. Although profound changes in gene expression also …

MicroRNA profiling: from dark matter to white matter, or identifying new players in neurobiology

AM Krichevsky - The Scientific World Journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Contemporary biology has been revolutionized by a recently discovered class of small
regulatory RNA molecules, microRNAs (miRNAs). Missed by researchers for decades due to …

Altered retinal microRNA expression profile in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa

CJ Loscher, K Hokamp, PF Kenna, AC Ivens… - Genome biology, 2007 - Springer
Background The role played by microRNAs (miRs) as common regulators in physiologic
processes such as development and various disease states was recently highlighted …

Mouse cytomegalovirus microRNAs dominate the cellular small RNA profile during lytic infection and show features of posttranscriptional regulation

L Dölken, J Perot, V Cognat, A Alioua, M John… - Journal of …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, noncoding RNA molecules that regulate gene expression
at the posttranscriptional level. Originally identified in a variety of organisms ranging from …

Discrete clusters of virus-encoded micrornas are associated with complementary strands of the genome and the 7.2-kilobase stable intron in murine cytomegalovirus

AH Buck, J Santoyo-Lopez, KA Robertson… - Journal of …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
The prevalence and importance of microRNAs (miRNAs) in viral infection are increasingly
relevant. Eleven miRNAs were previously identified in human cytomegalovirus (HCMV); …