Non-coding RNAs in homeostasis, disease and stress responses: An evolutionary perspective

Briefings in Functional Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 254-278

  Amaral, Paulo P ^a   Dinger, Marcel E ^b   Mattick, John S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Epigenetic inheritance; Regulatory evolution; Regulatory RNA; Stress response

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; HEMOGLOBIN ALPHA CHAIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN P15; PROTEIN P53; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; EPIGENETICS; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOST RESISTANCE; INHERITANCE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS;

ADAPTATION; EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; REGULATORY EVOLUTION; REGULATORY RNA; STRESS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84878437562     PISSN: 20412649     EISSN: 20412657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elt016     Document Type: Article

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