Small but sturdy: Small RNAs in cellular memory and epigenetics

Genes and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 423-431

  Stuwe, Evelyn ^a,b   Tóth, Katalin Fejes ^a   Aravin, Alexei A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Argonautes; Cellular memory; Epigenetics; piRNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA; SMALL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR MEMORY; CHROMATIN; DNA MODIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; INHERITANCE; MEMORY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPOSON;

ARGONAUTES; CELLULAR MEMORY; EPIGENETICS; PIRNA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MICRORNAS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84896879856     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.236414.113     Document Type: Review

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