Stealth regulation: Biological circuits with small RNA switches

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 2829-2842

  Gottesman, Susan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

DNA REPLICATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOSIS; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PLASMIDS; PROTEINS; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037112006     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1030302     Document Type: Review

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