An internal open reading frame triggers nonsense-mediated decay of the yeast SPT10 mRNA

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 6134-6145

  Welch, Ellen M ^a   Jacobson, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaky scanning; mRNA degradation; mRNA surveillance

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FUNGUS MUTANT; HALF LIFE TIME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION; YEAST;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, NONSENSE; DATABASES; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-3; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; POLYRIBOSOMES; PROKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-3; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA HELICASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0033229867     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.21.6134     Document Type: Article

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