The long arm of long noncoding RNAs: Roles as sensors regulating gene transcriptional programs

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Wang, Xiangting ^a   Song, Xiaoyuan ^a   Glass, Christopher K ^a   Rosenfeld, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84856998951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a003756     Document Type: Article

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