Do natural antisense transcripts make sense in eukaryotes?

Gene

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Vanhée Brossollet, Christine ^a   Vaquero, Catherine ^a  

^a INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

Author keywords

Endogenous; Expression; Regulation; RNA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0040175431     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00093-6     Document Type: Article

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