MicroRNA biogenesis: there's more than one way to skin a cat

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1779, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 663-667

  Faller, Michael ^a   Guo, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenosine deaminase for RNA; microRNA; Ribonuclease; RNA polymerase; RNA binding protein; Spliceosome

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MICRORNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

BIOGENESIS; CAT; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA PRECURSORS; SPLICEOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 55049137165     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2008.08.005     Document Type: Review

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