Processing of microRNA primary transcripts requires heme in mammalian cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1861-1866

  Weitz, Sara H ^a   Gong, Ming ^b   Barr, Ian ^b   Weiss, Shimon ^b   Guo, Feng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence microscopy; Iron; Noncoding RNA; Protoporphyrin IX; RNA processing

Indexed keywords

DGCR8 PROTEIN; DROSHA PROTEIN; HEME; MICRORNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; HEME SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IRON; NONCODING RNA; PROTOPORPHYRIN IX; RNA PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HEME; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84893507863     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309915111     Document Type: Article

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