Loop-miRs: Active microRNAs generated from single-stranded loop regions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5503-5512

  Winter, Julia ^a   Link, Steffen ^a   Witzigmann, Dominik ^a   Hildenbrand, Catherina ^a   Previti, Christopher ^b   Diederichs, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; EPITOPE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 192; MICRORNA 219; MICRORNA 33A; MICRORNA 34A; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS;

EID: 84876349900     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt251     Document Type: Article

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