Translating the epitranscriptome

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Hoernes, Thomas Philipp ^a   Erlacher, Matthias David ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; 6 N METHYLADENOSINE; ALANINE; GLYCINE; ISOLEUCINE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PSEUDOURIDINE; TRANSFER RNA; URACIL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA FOLDING; RNA METHYLATION; RNA MODIFICATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLATION;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; METHYLATION; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84977493734     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1375     Document Type: Review

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