Evidence that translation reinitiation abrogates nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in mammalian cells

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 826-833

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Maquat, Lynne E ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

mRNA decay; Nonsense codons; Translation reinitiation

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; VALINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RIBOSOME; RNA DEGRADATION; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA, RECOMBINANT; EXONS; HUMANS; L CELLS (CELL LINE); METALLOTHIONEIN; METHIONINE; MICE; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION; TRIOSE-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

EID: 0031046735     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.4.826     Document Type: Article

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