MicroRNA target recognition: Insights from transcriptome-wide non-canonical interactions

Molecules and Cells

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 375-381

  Seok, Heeyoung ^a   Ham, Juyoung ^b   Jang, Eun Sook ^c   Chi, Sung Wook ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c EncodeGEN Co Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Argonaute; CLIP; microRNA; Non canonical targets

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; TRANSCRIPTOME; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; MESSENGER RNA;

BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84983036134     PISSN: 10168478     EISSN: 02191032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14348/molcells.2016.0013     Document Type: Review

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