The MicroRNA miR-124 Promotes Neuronal Differentiation by Triggering Brain-Specific Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing

Molecular Cell

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 435-448

  Makeyev, Eugene V ^a   Zhang, Jiangwen ^b   Carrasco, Monica A ^a   Maniatis, Tom ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MOLNEURO; RNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; MICRORNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN PTBP1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN PTBP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED DECAY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEM CELL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; MITOSIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEURONS; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT-BINDING PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 34547212309     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

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