Noncoding RNA and its associated proteins as regulatory elements of the immune system

Nature Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 484-491

  Turner, Martin ^a   Galloway, Alison ^a   Vigorito, Elena ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901049034     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.2887     Document Type: Review

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