The sound of silence: Human β-defensin-1 gene untranslated SNPs change the predicted mRNA secondary structure in a length-dependent manner

Immunology Letters

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-55

  Naslavsky, M S ^a   Crovella, S ^a   Filho, J L Lima ^a   Rocha, C R C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alternative transcription initiation; DEFB1; Regulation of gene expression; RNA secondary structure

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN 1; MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LETTER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BETA-DEFENSINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77649189040     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2009.12.024     Document Type: Letter

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