Polysome-associated mRNAs are substrates for the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 234-244

  Zhang, Shuang ^a,b   Welch, Ellen M ^c   Hagan, Kevin ^a   Brown, Agneta H ^c   Peltz, Stuart W ^a,b,d   Jacobson, Allan ^c  

^a RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cycloheximide; mRNA turnover; nonsense containing mRNA

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXIMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOP CODON;

CODON, NONSENSE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYTOPLASM; INTRONS; MUTAGENESIS; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; POLYRIBOSOMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030951767     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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