Challenging the dogma: The hidden layer of non-protein-coding RNAs in complex organisms

BioEssays

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 930-939

  Mattick, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CATALYSIS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TURNOVER TIME;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0141867857     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10332     Document Type: Review

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