A functional assay for microRNA target identification and validation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Gäken, Joop ^a   Mohamedali, Azim M ^a   Jiang, Jie ^a   Malik, Farooq ^a   Stangl, Doris ^a   Smith, Alexander E ^a   Chronis, Constantinos ^a,b   Kulasekararaj, Austin G ^a   Thomas, N Shaun B ^a   Farzaneh, Farzin ^a   Tavassoli, Mahvash ^a   Mufti, Ghulam J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 130A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAFB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOWN-REGULATION; GANCICLOVIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84872489372     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks145     Document Type: Article

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