Structural and functional differences in the long non-coding RNA hotair in mouse and human

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Schorderet, Patrick ^a,b   Duboule, Denis ^a,b,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b National Research Center Frontiers in Genetics   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3 TRIMETHYL LYSINE 27; LONG NONCODING RNA HOTAIR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXD; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXC11 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HOXC11 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HOXC12 PROTEIN, MOUSE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; EXON; FETUS; FORELIMB; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; HINDLIMB; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HOX GENE; HOXC GENE; HOXD GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 79957983437     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002071     Document Type: Article

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