UAP56 levels affect viability and mRNA export in Caenorhabditis elegans

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 847-857

  Macmorris, Margaret ^a   Brocker, Chad ^a   Blumenthal, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exon junction complex (EJC); Helicase; REF Aly; RNA processing; RNAi; Splicing

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN ALY; PROTEIN NXF1; PROTEIN REF; PROTEIN TAP; PROTEIN UAP56; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; RNA HELICASES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038719952     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5480803     Document Type: Article

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