Natural antisense transcripts in fungi

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 405-417

  Donaldson, Michael E ^a   Saville, Barry J ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; LITHIUM; MESSENGER RNA; NATURAL ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPT; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBON METABOLISM; CELL AGING; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; MATING; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA ISOLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84864076971     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08125.x     Document Type: Review

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