mRNA localization: Message on the move

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 247-256

  Jansen, Ralf Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0035320036     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35067016     Document Type: Review

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