Regulating the many to benefit the few: Role of weak small RNA targets

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1773-1782

  Jost, Daniel ^a,b   Nowojewski, Andrzej ^a   Levine, Erel ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RNA PROCESSING; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876365599     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.02.020     Document Type: Article

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