Research progress of RNA quadruplex

Nucleic Acid Therapeutics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 185-200

  Ji, Xiaohui ^a   Sun, Hongxia ^b   Zhou, Huaxi ^a   Xiang, Junfeng ^b   Tang, Yalin ^b   Zhao, Changqi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; INOSINE; QUADRUPLEX RNA; RNA; TELOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL; URIDINE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG TARGETING; ENCAPSIDATION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; DNA; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA; RNA STABILITY; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80052178586     PISSN: 21593337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/nat.2010.0272     Document Type: Review

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