Function and localization of microRNAs in mammalian cells

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2006, Pages 29-38

  Leung, A K L ^a   Sharp, P A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRESS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FRACTIONATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 34250637210     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2006.71.049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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