Bidirectional promoters are the major source of gene activation-associated non-coding RNAs in mammals

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Uesaka, Masahiro ^a,b   Nishimura, Osamu ^a,c   Go, Yasuhiro ^a,d   Nakashima, Kinichi ^b   Agata, Kiyokazu ^a   Imamura, Takuya ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bidirectional promoter; CpG island; Directional RNA Seq; Gene activation; Non coding RNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIDIRECTIONAL PROMOTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

MAMMALIA; PAN;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CPG ISLANDS; GENOME; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL BETA SUBUNITS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 84892465462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-35     Document Type: Article

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