Small RNA profiling of Xenopus embryos reveals novel miRNAs and a new class of small RNAs derived from intronic transposable elements

Genome Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 96-106

  Harding, Joanne L ^a   Horswell, Stuart ^b   Heliot, Claire ^a   Armisen, Javier ^c   Zimmerman, Lyle B ^d   Luscombe, Nicholas M ^b   Miska, Eric A ^c   Hill, Caroline S ^a  

^a Laboratory of Developmental Signalling   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SITERNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSPOSON; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HISTONES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MICRORNAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 84891719250     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.144469.112     Document Type: Article

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