RNA modifications: What have we learned and where are we headed?

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 365-372

  Frye, Michaela ^a   Jaffrey, Samie R ^b   Pan, Tao ^c   Rechavi, Gideon ^d,e   Suzuki, Tsutomu ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING AND GENE TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA MODIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; RNA PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84965028802     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.47     Document Type: Review

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