A non-canonical landscape of the microRNA system

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Cipolla, Gabriel A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

5'UTR; Coding sequence; miRNA; MiRNA*; Non canonical; RNA activation; Subcellular localization; Transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 29A; MICRORNA LET 7B; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84917674006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00337     Document Type: Review

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