Small RNAs meet their targets: When methylation defends miRNAs from uridylation

RNA Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1099-1104

  Ren, Guodong ^a   Chen, Xuemei ^b   Yu, Bin ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Methylation; Small RNA; Uridylation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; URIDINE;

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA METHYLATION; URIDYLATION; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA PROCESSING;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; HUMANS; METHYLATION; MICRORNAS; RNA 3' END PROCESSING; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; URIDINE;

EID: 84921901479     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.36243     Document Type: Review

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