Transition of a microRNA from Repressing to Activating Translation Depending on the Extent of Base Pairing with the Target

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Saraiya, Ashesh A ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Wang, Ching C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H2A; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE H2A GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE PAIRING; DNA PRIMERS; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HISTONES; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR;

EID: 84873552830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055672     Document Type: Article

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