A splicing-dependent regulatory mechanism that detects translation signals

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 5965-5975

  Carter, Mark S ^a,b,c   Li, Shulin ^a   Wilkinson, Miles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonsense codons; Premature termination codons; RNA stability; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSOME; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029908912     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00983.x     Document Type: Article

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