Minireview: Long noncoding RNAs: New "links" between gene expression and cellular outcomes in endocrinology

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1390-1402

  Sun, Miao ^a,b   Lee Kraus, W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATASE; HISTONE H3; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P53; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADIPOGENESIS; ADRENAL FUNCTION; ANTISENSE THERAPY; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME 2; DNA BINDING; DNA STRAND; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; INTRON; LIPID METABOLISM; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROADIPOCYTE; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

CELLS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; ENDOCRINOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84883249942     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2013-1113     Document Type: Review

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