Emerging roles of RNA processing factors in regulating long non-coding RNAs

RNA Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 793-797

  Zhang, Huiming ^a   Zhu, Jian Kang ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Long non coding RNA; Pol IV; Pol V; RNA retention; RNA directed DNA methylation; Rrp6; Splicing; Transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SPACER DNA; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHROMATIN; PLANT RNA;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; ARABIDOPSIS; CHROMATIN; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84907543143     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.29731     Document Type: Note

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