At least one intron is required for the nonsense-mediated decay of triosephosphate isomerase mRNA: A possible link between nuclear splicing and cytoplasmic translation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 5272-5283

  Zhang, Jing ^a,b   Sun, Xiaolei ^a   Qian, Yimei ^a,c   Laduca, Jeffrey P ^a   Maquat, Lynne E ^a  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; INTRON; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA SPLICING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STOP CODON;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031840487     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.9.5272     Document Type: Article

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