Coupling transcription to translation: A novel site for the regulation of eukaryotic gene expression

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 247-257

  Wolffe, Alan P ^a   Meric, Funda ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

hnRNPs; mRNA processing; nuclear compartmentalization; transcriptional control; translational control; Y box proteins

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0029918027     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1357-2725(95)00141-7     Document Type: Review

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