Long noncoding RNAs in mammalian cells: What, where, and why?

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-21

  Chen, Ling Ling ^a   Carmichael, Gordon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LONG NONCODING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELLS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84862833549     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.5     Document Type: Article

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