Exploring the RNA world in hematopoietic cells through the lens of RNA-binding proteins

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 290-303

  Yuan, Joan ^a,b   Muljo, Stefan A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Genomics; Hematopoiesis; Let 7; Lin28; MicroRNA; Posttranscriptional regulation; RNA Binding Proteins; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MICRORNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BONE MARROW CELL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRORNAS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84875761924     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12048     Document Type: Review

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