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ArticleGenes & development2012

ELAV mediates 3' UTR extension in the Drosophila nervous system.

Valérie Hilgers, Sandra B Lemke, Michael Levine

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Article in Genes & development, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.

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3 authors.

Valérie HilgersDivision of Genetics, Genomics, and Development, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Sandra B Lemke
Michael Levine

Funding

SPATIAL REALMS OF HOMEOTIC GENE EXPRESSION IN DROSOPHILAR01GM034431 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO · PI LEVINE, MICHAEL STEVEN · 1985 to 2016
$4.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM34431NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM034431
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Post-transcriptional gene regulation is prevalent in the nervous system, where multiple tiers of regulatory complexity contribute to the development and function of highly specialized cell types. Whole-genome studies in Drosophila have identified several hundred genes containing long 3' extensions in neural tissues. We show that ELAV (embryonic-lethal abnormal visual system) is a key mediator of these neural-specific extensions. Misexpression of ELAV results in the ectopic synthesis of long messenger RNAs (mRNAs) in transgenic embryos. RNA immunoprecipitation assays suggest that ELAV directly binds the proximal polyadenylation signals of many target mRNAs. Finally, ELAV is sufficient to suppress 3' end formation at a strong polyadenylation signal when tethered to a synthetic RNA. We propose that this mechanism for coordinating 3' UTR extension may be generally used in a variety of cellular processes.

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3' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsELAV ProteinsFeeder CellsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalMutationNervous SystemPoly AProtein Binding3' Untranslated RegionsDrosophila ProteinsELAV protein, DrosophilaELAV ProteinsPoly A

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PMID23019123
PMCPMC3475798

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