What do natural antisense transcripts regulate?

RNA Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-48

  Werner, Andreas ^a   Carlile, Mark ^a   Swan, Daniel ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Endo siRNA; Gene regulation; Na phosphate cotransport; Natural antisense transcript

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MICRORNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN KINASE R; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 62549087008     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.6.1.7568     Document Type: Review

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