Novel recognition motifs and biological functions of the RNA-binding protein HuD revealed by genome-wide identification of its targets

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-130

  Bolognani, Federico ^a   Contente Cuomo, Tania ^b   Perrone Bizzozero, Nora I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CYTIDINE; HU ANTIGEN; HUD PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; UPREGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; GENOME; HU PARANEOPLASTIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ANTIGENS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; UP-REGULATION;

MUS;

EID: 75649131837     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp863     Document Type: Article

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