An upstream open reading frame impedes translation of the huntingtin gene

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 5110-5119

  Lee, Joseph ^a   Park, Eun Hee ^a   Couture, Graeme ^a   Harvey, Isabelle ^a   Garneau, Philippe ^a   Pelletier, Jerry ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HUNTINGTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; POLYGLUTAMINE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0036928594     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf664     Document Type: Review

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