Identification of a KIR antisense lncRNA expressed by progenitor cells

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 427-433

  Wright, P W ^a   Huehn, A ^b   Cichocki, F ^c   Li, H ^a   Sharma, N ^b   Dang, H ^b   Lenvik, T R ^c   Woll, P ^d   Kaufman, D ^d   Miller, J S ^c   Anderson, S K ^a,b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

antisense; human NK cells; KIR; lncRNA; transcription

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MYELOID ZINC FINGER 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; KIR GENE; MYELOID PROGENITOR CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STEM CELL;

BINDING SITES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EXONS; GENE SILENCING; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, KIR; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84886721967     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gene.2013.36     Document Type: Article

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