Intron function in the nonsense-mediated decay of β-globin mRNA: Indications that pre-mRNA splicing in the nucleus can influence mRNA translation in the cytoplasm

RNA

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 801-815

  Zhang, Jing ^a,b   Sun, Xiaolei ^a   Qian, Yimei ^a,c   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

Introns; mRNA destabilizing elements; Nonsense codons; Nucleus associated mRNA

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CODON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; INTRON; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CODON, NONSENSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GLOBINS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; READING FRAMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031870169     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838298971849     Document Type: Article

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