G-quadruplexes: Emerging roles in neurodegenerative diseases and the non-coding transcriptome

FEBS Letters

Volumn 589, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 1653-1668

  Simone, Roberto ^a   Fratta, Pietro ^a   Neidle, Stephen ^b   Parkinson, Gary N ^b   Isaacs, Adrian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

G quadruplex; Neurodegenerative diseases; Non coding RNA

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; FMRP PROTEIN; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; MESSENGER RNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; C9ORF72 GENE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; GENETICS;

G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84930271972     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.05.003     Document Type: Review

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