Long non-coding RNA SOX2OT: Expression signature, splicing patterns, and emerging roles in pluripotency and tumorigenesis

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Shahryari, Alireza ^a   Jazi, Marie Saghaeian ^a   Samaei, Nader M ^a   Mowla, Seyed J ^b  

^a GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Expression signature; lncRNA; Pluripotency; SOX2OT; Splicing pattern; Stem cell; Tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84940104547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00196     Document Type: Review

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