Extensive adenosine-to-inosine editing detected in Alu repeats of antisense RNAs reveals scarcity of sense-antisense duplex formation

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2301-2305

  Kawahara, Yukio ^a,b   Nishikura, Kazuko ^a  

^a WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

ADARs; Alu repeats; Antisense RNA; Human transcriptome; RNA editing

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INOSINE; RNA;

ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOSINE; ALU ELEMENTS; BASE PAIRING; HUMANS; INOSINE; INTRONS; RNA EDITING; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 33646000325     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.03.042     Document Type: Article

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