Regulation of chromatin structure by long noncoding RNAs: Focus on natural antisense transcripts

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 389-396

  Magistri, Marco ^a   Faghihi, Mohammad Ali ^a   St Laurent, Georges ^b   Wahlestedt, Claes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b St Laurent Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Chromatin; Epigenetics; NATs; NcRNAs; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN MODIFYING ENZYME; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84863861287     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2012.03.013     Document Type: Review

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