The Whereabouts of microRNA Actions: Cytoplasm and Beyond

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 601-610

  Leung, Anthony K L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Circulating miRNAs; Localization; MiRNA; Organelle; Post translational modification

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MESSENGER RNA;

CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE SILENCING; MITOCHONDRION; MULTIVESICULAR BODY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84942087859     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: 18793088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2015.07.005     Document Type: Review

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