A G-Rich Motif in the lncRNA Braveheart Interacts with a Zinc-Finger Transcription Factor to Specify the Cardiovascular Lineage

Molecular Cell

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 37-50

  Xue, Zhihong ^a   Hennelly, Scott ^b,c   Doyle, Boryana ^a   Gulati, Arune A ^a   Novikova, Irina V ^b,d   Sanbonmatsu, Karissa Y ^b,c   Boyer, Laurie A ^a,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Braveheart; cardiac; CNBP; long non coding RNA; SHAPE

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC G RICH INTERNAL LOOP PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; CELLULAR NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAS9 ENDONUCLEASE STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; CNBP1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ENDONUCLEASE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAVEHEART GENE; CARDIAC MUSCLE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE DELETION; GENE EDITING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MOUSE EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84993661633     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.08.010     Document Type: Article

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