'Inc-miRs': Functional intron-interrupted miRNA genes

Genes and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 1589-1594

  Zhang, Huibin ^a   Maniar, Jay M ^a   Fire, Andrew Z ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Intron; Lin 4; MicroRNA; Splicing

Indexed keywords

LIN 4 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INTRONS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA SPLICING;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

EID: 80051534167     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.2058711     Document Type: Article

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