Elements and machinery of non-coding RNAs: Toward their taxonomy

EMBO Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 489-507

  Hirose, Tetsuro ^a   Mishima, Yuichiro ^b   Tomari, Yukihide ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CRISPR; lncRNA; miRNA; piRNA; siRNA

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HEAT SHOCK COGNATE PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; X CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; GENETICS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; EPIGENETIC REPRESSION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84899833919     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/embr.201338390     Document Type: Review

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