The majority of endogenous microRNA targets within Alu elements avoid the microRNA machinery

Bioinformatics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 894-902

  Hoffman, Yonit ^a   Dahary, Dvir ^a   Bublik, Debora Rosa ^a   Oren, Moshe ^a   Pilpel, Yitzhak ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALU SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; MOUSE; RNA EDITING;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA EDITING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84875612231     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt044     Document Type: Article

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