Probabilistic bidirectional promoter switches: Noncoding RNA takes control

Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Anderson, Stephen K ^a,b  

^a FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

KIR; Ly49; NK cells; transcription

Indexed keywords

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STABLE EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 84907306740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mtna.2014.42     Document Type: Review

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