Challenges in the analysis of long noncoding RNA functionality

FEBS Letters

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 2342-2353

  Leone, Sergio ^a   Santoro, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

chromatin; epigenetics; genome organization; lncRNA; triple helix

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; PROTEIN;

CHROMATIN; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA FUNCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TRIPLE HELIX;

EID: 84981717728     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12308     Document Type: Review

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