Roles of long noncoding RNAs in brain development, functional diversification and neurodegenerative diseases

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 97, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-80

  Wu, Ping ^a   Zuo, Xialin ^a   Deng, Houliang ^a   Liu, Xiaoxia ^a   Liu, Li ^a   Ji, Aimin ^a  

^a SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Expression signature; LncRNA; Neurodegenerative disease; Neuron; Noncoding RNA

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR OPPOSITE STRAND; HUNTINGTIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; NATURAL ANTISENSE RNA; NEUROGRANIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATASE AND TENSIN HOMOLOGUE INDUCED PUTATIVE KINASE 1; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; RAD18 PROTEIN; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DLX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COGNITION; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA DAMAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; SYNAPSE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

Β-SITE AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN-CLEAVING ENZYME; 5′-BROMO-URIDINE IMMUNOPRECIPITATION CHASE FOLLOWED BY DEEP SEQUENCING; AΒ40; AΒ42; AD; ALS; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; AMYLOID-Β-40; AMYLOID-Β-42; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APP; BACE1; BC1; BC200 (BCYRN1); BDNF; BRAIN CYTOPLASMIC RNA 1; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRIC-SEQ; C-KLAN; CA(2+)/CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALCIUM/CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II INHIBITOR 1; CAMK2N1; CAMKII; CATRAPID; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHIRP-SEQ; CHROMATIN ISOLATION BY RNA PURIFICATION FOLLOWED BY DEEP SEQUENCING; CNS; COMBINED KNOCKDOWN AND LOCALIZATION ANALYSIS OF NONCODING RNAS; DJ-1 (PARK7); DNA-BINDING DOMAIN PROTEIN 43; EIF4A; ENORS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR 4A; EXPRESSED NONCODING REGIONS; EXPRESSION SIGNATURE; FAST PREDICTIONS OF RNA AND PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AND DOMAINS; FUS/TLS; FUSED IN SARCOMA/TRANSLATED IN LIPOSARCOMA; GAD1; GDNFOS; GENE NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE; GLIAL CELL DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR OPPOSITE STRAND; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 1; HAR1; HD; HGNCHOTAIRM1; HOX ANTISENSE INTERGENIC RNA MYELOID 1; HTTAS; HUGO; HUMAN ACCELERATED REGIONS 1; HUNTINGTIN ANTISENSE; HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; IPSC; ISH; LARGE INTERGENIC NONCODING RNAS; LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT KINASE 2; LINCRNAS; LNCRNA; LNCRNAS; LONG NONCODING RNAS; LONG-TERM DEPRESSION; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; LRRK2; LTD; LTP; MALAT1; METASTASIS-ASSOCIATED LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA TRANSCRIPT 1; NAT-RAD18; NATURAL ANTISENSE RNAS; NATURAL ANTISENSE-RAD 18; NCRNAS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE; NEUROGRANIN; NEURON; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASES; NKX2.2 ANTISENSE; NKX2.2 AS; NO; NONCODING RNA; NONCODING RNAS; NOSS; NRGN; NTAS; OPEN READING FRAME; ORF; PARKINSON DISEASE PROTEIN 7; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; PCG; PD; PHOSPHATASE AND TENSIN HOMOLOGUE INDUCED PUTATIVE KINASE 1; PINK1; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PRC2; PROTEIN CODING GENE; RE1-SILENCING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR/NEURON-RESTRICTIVE SILENCER FACTOR; REST/NRSF; RETINAL NONCODING RNA 2; RIP-CHIP; RNCR2; RNP IMMUNOPRECIPITATION-MICROARRAY; SAGE; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; SHH; SIX3 OPPOSITE STRAND; SIX3OS; SONIC HEDGEHOG; SOX2; SOX2 OVERLAPPING TRANSCRIPT; SOX2OT; SRY (SEX DETERMINING REGION Y)-BOX 2; TAURINE UPREGULATED GENE 1; TDP43TAR; TUG1; WILDE TYPE CU/ZN SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; WTSOD1; X-INACTIVE SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT; XIST;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84879823671     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2013.06.001     Document Type: Review

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