Developmental regulation of bicoid mRNA stability is mediated by the first 43 nucleotides of the 3' untranslated region

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2892-2900

  Surdej, P ^a,b   Jacobs Lorena, M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CHIMERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCATION; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0031921106     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.5.2892     Document Type: Article

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