Competition between target sites of regulators shapes post-transcriptional gene regulation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 113-126

  Jens, Marvin ^a   Rajewsky, Nikolaus ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 20A; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPETITION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; UPREGULATION; BINDING COMPETITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

BINDING, COMPETITIVE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84924330592     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3853     Document Type: Article

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