A mirror of two faces: Lin28 as a master regulator of both miRNA and mRNA

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 483-494

  Huang, Yingqun ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN B; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 4; LIN28 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; BINDING AFFINITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84863806564     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1112     Document Type: Review

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