Regulatory circuit of human microRNA biogenesis

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 721-732

  Lee, Ji ^a,b   Li, Zhihua ^a   Brower Sinning, Rachel ^a   John, Bino ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEINS; RNA; TIMING CIRCUITS; TRANSCRIPTION;

HUMAN MICRO-RNA; K FACTOR; MIRNA EXPRESSIONS; PROTEIN PRODUCTION; PROTEIN-CODING GENES; REGULATORY CIRCUITS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS; REGULATORY MOTIFS; SMALL RNA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

DISEASES;

MICRORNA; NUCLEAR FACTOR Y; PROTEIN C MYB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MTF 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 34247637277     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030067     Document Type: Article

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