The emerging role of RNA in the regulation of gene transcription in human cells

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 351-358

  Morris, Kevin V ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Concordant; Discordant; Epigenetic; Non coding RNA; Transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NUCLEOLIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN P15; PROTEIN P21; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BINDING SITE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

EID: 80051884378     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2011.02.017     Document Type: Review

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