Post-transcriptional regulation of early embryogenesis.

Post-transcriptional regulation of early embryogenesis. F1000Prime Rep. 2015;7:31 Authors: Weil TT Abstract Gene expression is controlled by diverse mechanisms before, during, and after transcription. Chromatin modification factors as well as transcriptional repressors, silencers, and enhancers all feed into how eukaryotes transcribe RNA in the nucleus. However, there is increasing evidence that post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression is as widespread as transcriptional control if not more so. Studies of specific transcripts in oocytes and embryos are at the core of our mechanistic understanding of many post-transcriptional events. Coupled with genome-wide and large-scale experimental approaches, research is bringing to light how these regulatory events function independently and in concert to regulate protein expression. PMID: 25926982 [PubMed]
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