Kissing loops hide premature termination codons in pre-mRNA of selenoprotein genes and in genes containing programmed ribosomal frameshifts

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 697-701

  Knudsen, Steen ^a   Brunak, Søren ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

mRNA stability; Nuclear scanning; Ribosomal frameshift; RNA secondary structure; Selenoproteins; Splicing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA PRECURSOR; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LETTER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITES;

EID: 0031182255     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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