Intronic microRNAs: A crossroad in gene regulation

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 759-761

  Gromak, Natalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co transcriptional processing; Drosha; Intronic microRNA (intronic miRNA); Splicing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

BIOGENESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXON; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84864383515     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20120023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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