Posttranscriptional control of X-chromosome dosage compensation

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 534-545

  Graindorge, Antoine ^a   Militti, Cristina ^a   Gebauer, Fátima ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MSL 2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MSL-2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; ROX1 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ROX2 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; MAMMAL; MSL2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; ROX1 GENE; ROX2 GENE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84055165383     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.75     Document Type: Review

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