The Role of RNA Structure in Posttranscriptional Regulation of Gene Expression

Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 535-543

  Jacobs, Elina ^a,b   Mills, James D ^a   Janitz, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAT; Fragmentation sequencing; FragSeq; M7G; MAPT; MRNA structure; Parallel analysis of RNA structure; PARS; SHAPE; SHAPE Seq; SMN; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; TAU PROTEIN; TPM2 PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; TROPOMYOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACYLATION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84867900147     PISSN: 16738527     EISSN: 18735533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgg.2012.08.002     Document Type: Review

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