Messenger-RNA-binding proteins and the messages they carry

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 195-205

  Dreyfuss, Gideon ^a   Kim, V Narry ^b   Kataoka, Naoyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

EXON; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOPLASM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; EXONS; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0036512117     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm760     Document Type: Review

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