Genomic gems: SINE RNAs regulate mRNA production

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-155

  Ponicsan, Steven L ^a   Kugel, Jennifer F ^a   Goodrich, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; GENE LOCUS; GENOMICS; HEAT SHOCK; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SHORT INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77952238354     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2010.01.004     Document Type: Review

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