Small RNA and transcriptional upregulation

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 748-760

  Portnoy, Victoria ^a   Huang, Vera ^a   Place, Robert F ^a   Li, Long Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GUIDE RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

DNA METHYLATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, GUIDE; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84862833567     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.90     Document Type: Review

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