Requirements for gene silencing mediated by U1 snRNA binding to a target sequence

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2338-2352

  Abad, Xabi ^a   Vera, Maria ^a,c   Jung, Stephen P ^b   Oswald, Evelyn ^b   Romero, Inés ^a   Amin, Vaibhav ^b   Fortes, Puri ^a   Gunderson, Samuel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; SERINE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR; SERINE ARGININE RICH SPLICING PROTEINS; SERINE-ARGININE-RICH SPLICING PROTEINS; U1 SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEN BOND; IN VIVO STUDY; MISMATCH REPAIR; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BASE MISPAIRING; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METABOLISM; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BINDING SITES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 42449160202     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn068     Document Type: Article

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