Post-transcriptional regulation in corticogenesis: How RNA-binding proteins help build the brain

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 501-515

  Pilaz, Louis Jan ^a   Silver, Debra L ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; HUR PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPYRIMIDINE TRACT BINDING PROTEIN 2; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN MAGOH; RNA BINDING PROTEIN MUSASHI 1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN MUSASHI 2; RNA BINDING PROTEIN NOVA2; RNA BINDING PROTEIN RBM8A; RNA BINDING PROTEIN STAUFEN2; RNA BINDING PROTEIN TRA2B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORTICOGENESIS; CYTOPLASM; EXON; EXON JUNCTION COMPLEX; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; NEOCORTEX; ORGANOGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84939472891     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1289     Document Type: Review

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