Brain-expressed 3'UTR extensions strengthen miRNA cross-talk between ion channel/transporter encoding mRNAs

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Wehrspaun, Claudia C ^a,b   Ponting, Chris P ^a   Marques, Ana C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

3' UTR; 3'untranslated region; Brain; Competitive endogenous RNAs; Gene expression; Ion channels; MiRNA; Transporters

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA5; ION CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ONTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOP CODON; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84897713317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00041     Document Type: Article

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