Transcription factor binding sites are highly enriched within microRNA precursor sequences

Biology Direct

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Piriyapongsa, Jittima ^a   Jordan, I King ^b   Conley, Andrew B ^b   Ronan, Tom ^c   Smalheiser, Neil R ^d  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosha; Microrna biogenesis; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES; RATTUS;

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 82455188317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-61     Document Type: Article

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