Many routes to a micro RNA

IUBMB Life

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 972-978

  Yeo, Janet H C ^a,b   Chong, Mark M W ^a,b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brogenesis; Micro RNA; RNase II enzymes; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84055217117     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.524     Document Type: Review

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