Overlapping transcripts, double-stranded RNA and antisense regulation: A genomic perspective

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 2102-2118

  Munroe, S H ^a   Zhu, J ^b  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Double stranded RNA; microRNA; Non coding RNA; RNA interference; RNA RNA base pairing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BASE PAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; CPG ISLAND; DNA LIBRARY; EUKARYOTE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33749066576     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-006-6070-2     Document Type: Review

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