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Enhanced Northern Blot Detection of Small RNA Species in Drosophila Melanogaster
Published on: August 21, 2014
[The big world of the small RNAs]
1Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, Apartado Postal 510-3, Cuernavaca, Mor., 62250, México. juanm@ibt.unam.mx
Abstract:
In the last ten years a great number of RNAs have been discovered that function by regulating gene expression and do not code for a protein. This RNAs are named ncRNAs or sRNAs (non coding RNAs or small RNAs). More than 70 sRNAs have been documented in Escherichia coli and function by inhibiting/ promoting translation or degradation, some have intrinsic catalytic properties and others modify the activity of a protein. The mechanisms of action of some of them will be reviewed as well as the efforts to find new sRNAs by systematic oriented searches.
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