The panorama of miRNA-mediated mechanisms in mammalian cells

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2253-2270

  Stroynowska Czerwinska, Anna ^a   Fiszer, Agnieszka ^a   Krzyzosiak, Wlodzimierz J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Argonaute proteins; miRISC assembly; miRNA; miRNA binding sites; miRNA mediated regulation of gene expression

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR4; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADENYLATION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; BIOGENESIS; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS;

EID: 84901693583     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-013-1551-6     Document Type: Review

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