Modulation of microRNA activity by semi-microRNAs

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Plante, Isabelle ^a,b   Plé, Hélène ^a,b   Landry, Patricia ^a,b   Gunaratne, Preethi H ^c,d   Provost, Patrick ^a,b  

^a Université Laval   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Argonaute 2; Dicer; Gene regulation; MicroRNA; Non coding RNA; RNA silencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876018611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00099     Document Type: Article

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