The human transcriptome is enriched for miRNA-binding sites located in cooperativity-permitting distance

RNA Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1125-1135

  Rinck, Andrea ^a,b   Preusse, Martin ^a   Laggerbauer, Bernhard ^b   Lickert, Heiko ^a   Engelhardt, Stefan ^b,c   Theis, Fabian J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooperativity; Microrna; Target prediction; Target regulation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

COOPERATIVITY; MICRORNA; TARGET PREDICTION; TARGET REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84880878521     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.24955     Document Type: Article

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