A novel source for miR-21 expression through the alternative polyadenylation of VMP1 gene transcripts

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 6821-6833

  Ribas, Judit ^a,b   Ni, Xiaohua ^a   Castanares, Mark ^a   Liu, Minzhi M ^a   Esopi, David ^c   Yegnasubramanian, Srinivasan ^c   Rodriguez, Ronald ^c   Mendell, Joshua T ^d   Lupold, Shawn E ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; MICRORNA 21; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VMP1 GENE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; POLYADENYLATION; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84864941600     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks308     Document Type: Article

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