Probing the Limits to MicroRNA-Mediated Control of Gene Expression

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Martirosyan, Araks ^a,b   Figliuzzi, Matteo ^c,d,e   Marinari, Enzo ^a,f   De Martino, Andrea ^a,b,g  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Soft and Living Matter Laboratory   (Italy)

^c Université Pierre et Marie Curie Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^g ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVEYING; RNA;

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION; DE-REPRESSION; INFORMATION FLOWS; POSITIVE INTERACTION; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; REGULATORY ELEMENTS; RNA MOLECULES; TARGET NODES;

TRANSCRIPTION;

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84956818622     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004715     Document Type: Article

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