G-quadruplexes: The beginning and end of UTRs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6260-6268

  Huppert, Julian Leon ^a   Bugaut, Anthony ^b   Kumari, Sunita ^b   Balasubramanian, Shankar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS;

EID: 56049121180     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn511     Document Type: Article

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