Genome-wide analysis of Staufen-associated mRNAs identifies secondary structures that confer target specificity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 9438-9460

  Laver, John D ^a   Li, Xiao ^a   Ancevicius, Kristin ^b   Westwood, J Timothy ^b   Smibert, Craig A ^a   Morris, Quaid D ^a   Lipshitz, Howard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION FACTOR 1; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; STAUFEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA BICOID; EMBRYO; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA ANALYSIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENOME, INSECT; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84890071607     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt702     Document Type: Article

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