Coordinated networks of microRNAs and transcription factors with evolutionary perspectives

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 774, Issue , 2013, Pages 169-187

  Iwama, Hisakazu ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coordinated regulation; MicroRNA; Natural selection; Redundancy; Regulatory network; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYSIS; COORDINATION; CROSSLINKING IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84934434624     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-7-5590-1_10     Document Type: Article

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