Perspectives on the mechanism of transcriptional regulation by long non-coding RNAs

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-20

  Roberts, Thomas C ^a,b   Morris, Kevin V ^a,c   Weinberg, Marc S ^a,d  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetics; lncRNA; ncRNA; RNA; RNA scaffolds; RNA structure; RNAi; TGA; TGS

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84891923027     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.26700     Document Type: Article

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