Lin-41/Trim71: Emancipation of a miRNA target

Genes and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 581-589

  Ecsedi, Matyas ^a,b   Großhans, Helge ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Development; Differentiation; RING domain; Selfrenewal; Stem cell; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

LINEAGE VARIANT 41 PROTEIN; MICRORNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; UBIQUITINATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UBIQUITINATION;

EID: 84875282123     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.207266.112     Document Type: Review

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