Deciphering the transcriptional circuitry of microRNA genes expressed during human monocytic differentiation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Schmeier, Sebastian ^a,c   MacPherson, Cameron R ^a   Essack, Magbubah ^a   Kaur, Mandeep ^a,c   Schaefer, Ulf ^a,c   Suzuki, Harukazu ^b   Hayashizaki, Yoshihide ^b   Bajic, Vladimir B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MIR 155; MIR 17 92; MIR 21; MIR 424; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELK 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFE2L1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFE2L2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YY1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTOR 2;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MONOCYTE; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY;

BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MONOCYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 74249085746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-595     Document Type: Article

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