The many faces of small nucleolar RNAs

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1839, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 438-443

  Bratkovič, Tomaž ^a   Rogelj, Boris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Bifunctional snoRNA; MiRNA; Orphan snoRNA; Posttranscriptional modification

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARCHAEON; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME 15Q; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOMERIZATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORBID OBESITY; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA METABOLISM; RNA METHYLATION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLICEOSOME; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; UPREGULATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BIFUNCTIONAL SNORNA; MIRNA; ORPHAN SNORNA; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL MODIFICATION;

CELL NUCLEOLUS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR;

EID: 84900468373     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2014.04.009     Document Type: Review

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