Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A quality control mechanism that degrades transcripts harboring premature termination codons

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2001, Pages 321-328

  Gonzalez C I ^a   Wang, W ^a   Peltz, S W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; FUNGAL RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN HRP1; RNA BINDING PROTEIN NAB4; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CODON; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUKARYOTE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TURNOVER TIME; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0035787713     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2001.66.321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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