An evolutionarily biased distribution of miRNA sites toward regulatory genes with high promoter-driven intrinsic transcriptional noise

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zare, Hossein ^a   Khodursky, Arkady ^b   Sartorelli, Vittorio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; microRNAs; Nucleosome occupancy; Transcriptional noise

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; METAZOAN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NOISE; PROTEIN; ADAPTATION; RNA; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ESSENTIAL GENE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901494457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-74     Document Type: Article

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