Specificity of microRNA target selection in translational repression

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 504-511

  Doench, John G ^a   Sharp, Phillip A ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

3 UTR; MicroRNA; Translational repression

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSLATIONAL REPRESSION;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSFECTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 1642374097     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1184404     Document Type: Article

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