Synaptic vesicles contain small ribonucleic acids (sRNAs) including transfer RNA fragments (trfRNA) and microRNAs (miRNA)

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Huinan ^a   Wu, Cheng ^a   Aramayo, Rodolfo ^a   Sachs, Matthew S ^a   Harlow, Mark L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; MICRORNA; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TRANSFER RNA; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TORPEDO; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, TRANSFER; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TORPEDO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84943621253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14918     Document Type: Article

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