Insights into RNA structure and function from genome-wide studies

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 469-479

  Mortimer, Stefanie A ^a,b   Kidwell, Mary Anne ^a   Doudna, Jennifer A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Guardant Health   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BINDING SITE; CELL FUNCTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA FOLDING; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84902830900     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3681     Document Type: Review

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