DGCR8 HITS-CLIP reveals novel functions for the Microprocessor

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 760-766

  MacIas, Sara ^a   Plass, Mireya ^b,c   Stajuda, Agata ^a   Michlewski, Gracjan ^a,e   Eyras, Eduardo ^b,d   Cáceres, Javier F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DGCR8 PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; MALAT1 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE CASSETTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HEK293 CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84864688599     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2344     Document Type: Article

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