Non-coding RNAs as direct and indirect modulators of epigenetic regulation

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-12

  Peschansky, Veronica J ^a   Wahlestedt, Claes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetics; Gene expression; Histone; lncRNA; microRNA; Noncoding RNA; piRNA; Polycomb

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; MICRORNA; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; UNTRANSLATED RNA; HISTONE; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE SILENCING; HISTONES; HUMANS; POLYCOMB-GROUP PROTEINS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84891936130     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.27473     Document Type: Review

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