Emerging evidence for functional peptides encoded by short open reading frames

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 193-204

  Andrews, Shea J ^a   Rothnagel, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE;

CODON; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SHORT OPEN READING FRAME;

EID: 84894380391     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3520     Document Type: Review

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