Binary specification of nonsense codons by splicing and cytoplasmic translation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3484-3494

  Thermann, Rolf ^a   Neu Yilik, Gabriele ^a   Deters, Andrea ^a   Frede, Ute ^a   Wehr, Kristina ^b   Hagemeier, Christian ^a   Hentze, Matthias W ^b   Kulozik, Andreas E ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3' UTR splicing; Dominant thalassemia; mRNA stability; Nonsense mediated decay; Translation

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBULIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

CODON, NONSENSE; CODON, TERMINATOR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032526946     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.12.3484     Document Type: Article

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