Triplet repeats in transcripts: Structural insights into RNA toxicity

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 393, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1299-1315

  Galka Marciniak, Paulina ^a   Urbanek, Martyna O ^a   Krzyzosiak, Wlodzimierz J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

CAG repeats; Fragile X associated tremor ataxia; Huntington's disease; Myotonic dystrophy type 1; RNA pathogenesis; Spinocerebellar ataxia

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CAG REPEAT; CELL NUCLEUS; CUG REPEAT; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TOXICITY; RNA TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 84869428758     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2012-0218     Document Type: Review

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