Epigenetics and methylmercury-induced neurotoxicity, evidence from experimental studies

T Ke, AA Tinkov, AV Skalny, A Santamaria, JBT Rocha… - Toxics, 2023 - mdpi.com
MeHg is an environmental neurotoxin that can adversely affect the development of the
nervous system. The molecular integrity of chromatin in the nucleus is an important target of …

Mechanisms of lineage specification in Caenorhabditis elegans

J Liu, JI Murray - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The studies of cell fate and lineage specification are fundamental to our understanding of
the development of multicellular organisms. Caenorhabditis elegans has been one of the …

Dissection of the Caenorhabditis elegans Microprocessor

TL Nguyen, TD Nguyen, MK Ngo… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Microprocessor (MP) is a complex involved in initiating the biogenesis of microRNAs
(miRNAs) by cleaving primary microRNAs (pri-miRNAs). miRNAs are small single-stranded …

Recent advances in understanding microRNA function and regulation in C. elegans

K Kotagama, K McJunkin - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) were first discovered in C. elegans as essential post-transcriptional
regulators of gene expression. Since their initial discovery, miRNAs have been implicated in …

Widespread destabilization of Caenorhabditis elegans microRNAs by the E3 ubiquitin ligase EBAX-1

MW Stubna, A Shukla, DP Bartel - RNA, 2025 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) associate with Argonaute (AGO) proteins to form complexes that direct
mRNA repression. miRNAs are also the subject of regulation. For example, some miRNAs …

The role of RNA-binding proteins in orchestrating germline development in Caenorhabditis elegans

MMY Albarqi, SP Ryder - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
RNA passed from parents to progeny controls several aspects of early development. The
germline of the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans contains many families of …

Screening by deep sequencing reveals mediators of microRNA tailing in C. elegans

KF Vieux, KP Prothro, LH Kelley, C Palmer… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract microRNAs are frequently modified by addition of untemplated nucleotides to the
3′ end, but the role of this tailing is often unclear. Here we characterize the prevalence and …

A lineage-resolved cartography of microRNA promoter activity in C. elegans empowers multidimensional developmental analysis

W Xu, J Liu, H Qi, R Si, Z Zhao, Z Tao, Y Bai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Elucidating the expression of microRNAs in developing single cells is critical for functional
discovery. Here, we construct scCAMERA (single-cell cartography of microRNA expression …

Development, regeneration and aging: a bizarre love triangle

L Cochella, Z Chaker - 2023 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT The Jacques Monod Conference on 'Growth and regeneration during
development and aging'was organized by Claude Desplan and Allison Bardin in May 2023 …

Mime-seq 2.0: a method to sequence microRNAs from specific mouse cell types

A Mandlbauer, Q Sun, N Popitsch, T Schwickert… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Many microRNAs (miRNAs) are expressed with high spatiotemporal specificity during
organismal development, with some being limited to rare cell types, often embedded in …