Highly conserved RNA sequences that are sensors of environmental stress

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 7371-7382

  Spicher, Albert ^a   Guicherit, Oivin M ^a,c   Duret, Laurent ^b   Aslanian, Aaron ^a   Sanjines, Elvira M ^a   Denko, Nicholas C ^a   Giaccia, Amato J ^a   Blau, Helen M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c Ontogeny Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYPOXIA; MITOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031784024     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.12.7371     Document Type: Article

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