RNAa in action: From the exception to the norm

RNA Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1221-1225

  Guo, Dan ^a   Barry, Liam ^b   Lin, Sharon Szu Hua ^b   Huang, Vera ^b   Li, Long Cheng ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Epigenetic memory; Gene expression; RNAa; RNAe

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MICRORNA; RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CSR-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HELMINTH RNA; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA ACTIVATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84921813324     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/15476286.2014.972853     Document Type: Review

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