Transcriptional gene silencing through epigenetic changes mediated by non-coding RNAs

Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 214-222

  Malecová, Barbora ^a   Morris, Kevin V ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense transcription; Chromatin; Epigenetic; Non coding RNA; SiRNA; Transcriptional gene silencing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN P15; RNA POLYMERASE II; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; UVOMORULIN;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 77950841042     PISSN: 14648431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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