Rbfox proteins regulate microRNA biogenesis by sequence-specific binding to their precursors and target downstream Dicer

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 4381-4395

  Chen, Yu ^a,c   Zubovic, Lorena ^b   Yang, Fan ^a   Godin, Katherine ^a   Pavelitz, Tom ^a   Castellanos, Javier ^a   MacChi, Paolo ^b   Varani, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 107; MICRORNA 20B; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; RBFOX PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DICER1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MIRN107 MICRORNA, HUMAN; MIRN20 MICRORNA, HUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PTEN PROTEIN, HUMAN; RBFOX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA SPLICING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING; UPREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; MCF-7 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MCF-7 CELLS; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN BINDING; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA SPLICING FACTORS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84970996723     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw177     Document Type: Article

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