Transcriptional silencing of long noncoding RNA GNG12-AS1 uncouples its transcriptional and product-related functions

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Stojic, Lovorka ^a   Niemczyk, Malwina ^a   Orjalo, Arturo ^b,e   Ito, Yoko ^a   Ruijter, Anna Elisabeth Maria ^a   Uribe Lewis, Santiago ^a   Joseph, Nimesh ^a   Weston, Stephen ^c   Menon, Suraj ^a   Odom, Duncan T ^a   Rinn, John ^d   Gergely, Fanni ^a   Murrell, Adele ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Biosearch Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d Harvard University   (United States)

^e GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; AS1 PROTEIN; GNG 12 PROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DIRAS3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; EIF2C2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; GNG12 PROTEIN, MOUSE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA SUBUNIT; ISOPROTEIN; LONG NONCODING RNA GNG12-AS1, HUMAN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CYTOGENETICS; ENZYME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROTEIN; RNA; TUMOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PRODUCT; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; CELL CYCLE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA SUBUNITS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84957543383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10406     Document Type: Article

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