The MicroRNA biology of the Mammalian nucleus

Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Roberts, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1; MICRORNA 122; MICRORNA 148A; MICRORNA 148B; MICRORNA 15; MICRORNA 205; MICRORNA 29B; MICRORNA 32; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; NUCLEOLUS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84907332153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mtna.2014.40     Document Type: Review

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