Overview of microRNA biology

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-11

  Mohr, Ashley M ^a   Mott, Justin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

alternatives to seed binding; long noncoding RNA; microRNA; ribonucleoprotein; RNAi

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEOME; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; GENETIC MARKER;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BINDING SITE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TRANSFER; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

EID: 84928553627     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: 10988971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1397344     Document Type: Review

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