MicroRNA function: Multiple mechanisms for a tiny RNA?

RNA

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1753-1761

  Pillai, Ramesh S ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Argonaute; MicroRNAs; miRNPs; P bodies; Translational repression

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA;

BIOGENESIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 28344440823     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2248605     Document Type: Review

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