Small non-coding RNAs mount a silent revolution in gene expression

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 333-340

  Aalto, Antti P ^a,b   Pasquinelli, Amy E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFER RNA;

BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DROSOPHILA; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

BIOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84861968721     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2012.03.006     Document Type: Review

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