The power of the 3′ UTR: Translational control and development

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 626-637

  Kuersten, Scott ^a   Goodwin, Elizabeth B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; DEVELOPMENT; DIOXYGENATION; DISTAL TIP CELL; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LINE; HETEROCHRONIC MUTATION; HUMAN; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED DECAY; OXYGENATION; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; MOTHER; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MEIOSIS; MICE; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0042968976     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1125     Document Type: Review

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