Post-transcriptional control via iron-responsive elements: The impact of aberrations in hereditary disease

Mutation Research - Reviews in Mutation Research

Volumn 437, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 219-230

  Mikulits, Wolfgang ^a   Schranzhofer, Matthias ^b   Beug, Hartmut ^c   Müllner, Ernst W ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hereditary disease; IRE; Iron metabolism; IRP; mRNA protein interactions; Mutation

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON; IRON REGULATORY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERFERRITINEMIA; IRON METABOLISM; IRON RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; IRON STORAGE; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

EID: 0032736896     PISSN: 13835742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5742(99)00085-X     Document Type: Article

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