A search for conserved sequences in coding regions reveals that the let-7 microRNA targets Dicer within its coding sequence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 14879-14884

  Forman, Joshua J ^a   Legesse Miller, Aster ^a   Coller, Hilary A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Computational biology; Evolutionary conservation; Multiple sequence alignment; Posttranscriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; LET 7 MICRORNA, HUMAN; LET-7 MICRORNA, HUMAN; RIBONUCLEASE III;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CATTLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RABBIT; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOGS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; RABBITS; RATS; RIBONUCLEASE III; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 54449097149     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803230105     Document Type: Article

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