MicroRNAs and their isomiRs function cooperatively to target common biological pathways

Genome Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Cloonan, Nicole ^a   Wani, Shivangi ^a   Xu, Qinying ^a   Gu, Jian ^b   Lea, Kristi ^b   Heater, Sheila ^b   Barbacioru, Catalin ^c   Steptoe, Anita L ^a   Martin, Hilary C ^a   Nourbakhsh, Ehsan ^a   Krishnan, Keerthana ^a   Gardiner, Brooke ^a   Wang, Xiaohui ^c   Nones, Katia ^a   Steen, Jason A ^a   Matigian, Nicholas A ^a   Wood, David L ^a   Kassahn, Karin S ^a   Waddell, Nic ^a   Shepherd, Jill ^a   Lee, Clarence ^d   Ichikawa, Jeff ^d   McKernan, Kevin ^d   Bramlett, Kelli ^b   Kuersten, Scott ^b,e   Grimmond, Sean M ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Life Technologies   (United States)

^c Life Technologies Corporation   (United States)

^d Life Technologies   (United States)

^e ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ISOMIR; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DICER1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; EIF2C2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RIBONUCLEASE III;

ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; POLYSOME; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CLASSIFICATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOTINYLATION; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84855168259     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-12-r126     Document Type: Article

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