Interplay of microRNAs, transcription factors and target genes: Linking dynamic expression changes to function

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2817-2831

  Nazarov, Petr V ^a   Reinsbach, Susanne E ^b   Muller, Arnaud ^a   Nicot, Nathalie ^a   Philippidou, Demetra ^b   Vallar, Laurent ^a   Kreis, Stephanie ^b  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; JANUS KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; STAT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MELANOMA CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-1; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MELANOMA; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84876395914     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1471     Document Type: Article

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