Contribution of natural antisense transcription to an endogenous siRNA signature in human cells

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Werner, Andreas ^a   Cockell, Simon ^b   Falconer, Jane ^c   Carlile, Mark ^d   Alnumeir, Sammer ^a   Robinson, John ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antisense transcripts; Endo siRNA; Noncoding RNA; RNAseq

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NATURAL ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPT; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EUKARYOTA;

DATABASES, GENETIC; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; EXONS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MUTAGENESIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84892378620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-19     Document Type: Article

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