Role of RNA methyltransferases in tissue renewal and pathology

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-7

  Blanco, Sandra ^a   Frye, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTIDINE; 6 N METHYLADENOSINE; CYTOSINE 5 RNA METHYLASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 2; MESSENGER RNA; NOP2 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 5-METHYLCYTIDINE; ADENOSINE; CYTIDINE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; N(6)-METHYLADENOSINE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEPRESSION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EXON; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA METHYLATION; RNA PROCESSING; STOP CODON; TISSUE REGENERATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHYLATION;

ADENOSINE; ANIMALS; CYTIDINE; HUMANS; METHYLATION; METHYLTRANSFERASES; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84904412679     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2014.06.006     Document Type: Review

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