Transcripts with in silico predicted RNA structure are enriched everywhere in the mouse brain

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Seemann, Stefan E ^a   Sunkin, Susan M ^b   Hawrylycz, Michael J ^b   Ruzzo, Walter L ^a,c,d   Gorodkin, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE 3; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MEG3 GENE; MIAT GENE; MIRG GENE; MOUSE; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMODYNAMICS; XIST GENE;

ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; ANIMALS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; BRAIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC VARIATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; RNA PROBES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 84861581898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-214     Document Type: Article

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