RNA regulons: Coordination of post-transcriptional events

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 533-543

  Keene, Jack D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA; VIRUS RNA;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; STRESS; YEAST;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERON; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGULON; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCETALES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 34250735674     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2111     Document Type: Review

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