Structure prediction: New insights into decrypting long noncoding RNAs

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Yan, Kun ^a   Arfat, Yasir ^a   Li, Dijie ^a   Zhao, Fan ^a   Chen, Zhihao ^a   Yin, Chong ^a   Sun, Yulong ^a   Hu, Lifang ^a   Yang, Tuanmin ^b   Qian, Airong ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Function; LncRNAs; Secondary structure; Structure prediction; Tertiary structure

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; CHROMATIN;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER MODEL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONFORMATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HEART DISEASE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEOPLASMS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PNEUMONIA; RNA, LONG NONCODING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84955466599     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms17010132     Document Type: Review

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