Should we kill the messenger? The role of the surveillance complex in translation termination and mRNA turnover

BioEssays

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 685-696

  Czaplinski, Kevin ^a   Ruiz Echevarria, Maria J ^a   González, Carlos I ^a   Peltz, Stuart W ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; CODON, TERMINATOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033180278     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199908)21:8<685::AID-BIES8>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Review

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