A story of growing confusion: Genes and their regulation

Biophysical Reviews and Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 285-302

  Prohaska, Sonja J ^a   Stadler, Peter F ^b,c,d,e  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis control; Transcription interference; Transcriptome organization

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BINDING AFFINITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 51349085880     PISSN: 17930480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s1793048008000757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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