Quantitative effect of target translation on small RNA efficacy reveals a novel mode of interaction

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 12200-12211

  Lavi Itzkovitz, Anat ^a   Peterman, Neil ^a   Jost, Daniel ^a,b   Levine, Erel ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA; SMALL REGULATORY RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REPRESSION; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE SILENCING; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BINDING SITES; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84925282985     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku889     Document Type: Article

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