Regulation of small RNA stability: Methylation and beyond

Cell Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 624-636

  Ji, Lijuan ^a   Chen, Xuemei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

HEN1; methylation; miRNA; piRNA; RNA silencing; siRNA

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MICRORNA; NHLH1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METHYLATION; PLANT; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STABILITY;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; METHYLATION; MICRORNAS; PLANTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84862803181     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2012.36     Document Type: Review

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