Argonaute-associated short introns are a novel class of gene regulators

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Hansen, Thomas B ^a   Venø, Morten T ^a   Jensen, Trine I ^a   Schaefer, Anne ^b   Damgaard, Christian K ^a   Kjems, Jørgen ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; MICRORNA; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DICER1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; EIF2C2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; EIF2C2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE 1 PROTEIN; POLYCYSTIN; RIBONUCLEASE III;

CYTOPLASM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; PROTEIN; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AGOTRON; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MIRTRON; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; REGULATOR GENE; RNA SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PROCEDURES; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTRONS; MICE; MICRORNAS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRPP CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 84968820464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11538     Document Type: Article

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