Mining functional elements in messenger RNAs: Overview, challenges, and perspectives

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2011, Pages

  Ahmed, Firoz ^a   Benedito, Vagner A ^b   Zhao, Patrick Xuechun ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AU rich elements; Bioinformatics; Cis elements; Internal ribosome entry sites; Iron responsive elements; Polyadenylation signals; Splicing regulatory elements; Zipcodes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892388679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2011.00084     Document Type: Review

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