The multilayered complexity of ceRNA crosstalk and competition

Nature

Volumn 505, Issue 7483, 2014, Pages 344-352

  Tay, Yvonne ^a   Rinn, John ^b,c,d   Pandolfi, Pier Paolo ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Harvard University   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CIRCULAR RIBONUCLEIC ACID; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; PLANT RNA; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISEASE PREVALENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH REGULATOR; PROTEIN; RNA; SPONGE;

BINDING COMPETITION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PSEUDOGENES; RNA; RNA EDITING; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84892573723     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12986     Document Type: Review

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