ADAR enzyme and miRNA story: A nucleotide that can make the difference

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 22796-22816

  Tomaselli, Sara ^a   Bonamassa, Barbara ^a   Alisi, Anna ^a   Nobili, Valerio ^a   Locatelli, Franco ^a,b   Gallo, Angela ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

A to I RNA editing; Adenosine deaminase acting on RNA (ADAR); Double stranded RNA (dsRNA); MicroRNA; Non coding sequence

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE 1 ACTING ON RNA; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE 2 ACTING ON RNA; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE 3 ACTING ON RNA; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE ACTING ON RNA; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; DROSHA PROTEIN; DSRNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 151; MICRORNA 22; MICRORNA 376A; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHYTIC ACID; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADAR1 GENE; ADAR2 GENE; ADAR3 GENE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; BIOGENESIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; KAPOSI SARCOMA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INOSINE; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

EID: 84887981951     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms141122796     Document Type: Review

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