Finding the target sites of RNA-binding proteins

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 111-130

  Li, Xiao ^a,c   Kazan, Hilal ^b,c   Lipshitz, Howard D ^a   Morris, Quaid D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ANTALYA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

BASE PAIRING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84890294599     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1201     Document Type: Review

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