Exon-intron circular RNAs regulate transcription in the nucleus

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 256-264

  Li, Zhaoyong ^a   Huang, Chuan ^a   Bao, Chun ^a,b   Chen, Liang ^a   Lin, Mei ^a   Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Zhong, Guolin ^a   Yu, Bin ^a   Hu, Wanchen ^a   Dai, Limin ^a   Zhu, Pengfei ^a   Chang, Zhaoxia ^a   Wu, Qingfa ^a   Zhao, Yi ^c   Jia, Ya ^b   Xu, Ping ^d   Liu, Huijie ^a   Shan, Ge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Beijing)   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXON INTRON CIRCULAR RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; U 1 SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CIS GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA BINDING; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84924274183     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2959     Document Type: Article

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