Analysis of the accessibility of CLIP bound sites reveals that nucleation of the miRNA:mRNA pairing occurs preferentially at the 3′-end of the seed match

RNA

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1760-1770

  Marín, Ray M ^a   Voellmy, Franziska ^a   Von Erlach, Thibaud ^a   Vaníček, Jiří ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Binding site accessibility; HITS CLIP; MiRNA seed match; MiRNA targets; PAR CLIP

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DOWN REGULATION; EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THERMODYNAMICS; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84866609988     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.033282.112     Document Type: Article

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