Alternative Splicing Regulates Biogenesis of miRNAs Located across Exon-Intron Junctions

Molecular Cell

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 869-881

  Melamed, Ze'ev ^a   Levy, Asaf ^a,b,d   Ashwal Fluss, Reut ^c   Lev Maor, Galit ^a   Mekahel, Keren ^a   Atias, Nir ^a   Gilad, Shlomit ^b   Sharan, Roded ^a   Levy, Carmit ^a   Kadener, Sebastian ^c   Ast, Gil ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ROSETTA GENOMICS LTD   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 202; MICRORNA 412; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DEATH; EXONS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEK293 CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INTRONS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MICE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICE SITES;

EID: 84880845397     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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