Identification and consequences of miRNA-target interactions-beyond repression of gene expression

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 599-612

  Hausser, Jean ^a   Zavolan, Mihaela ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

CROSS LINKING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EID: 84906313950     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3765     Document Type: Review

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