Regulation of inducible gene expression by natural antisense transcripts

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 938-958

  Nishizawa, Mikio ^a   Okumura, Tadayoshi ^b,c   Ikeya, Yukinobu ^a   Kimura, Tominori ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Research Organization of Science and Technology   (Japan)

^c KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MRNA stability; Natural antisense transcript; Review; RNA protein interaction; RNA RNA interaction; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84860280329     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3965     Document Type: Article

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