New insights into the formation of active nonsense-mediated decay complexes

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 464-466

  Singh, Guramrit ^a   Lykke Andersen, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXON JUNCTION PROTEIN COMPLEX; HUPF PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

COMPLEX FORMATION; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MESSENGER RNA DECAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; ANIMAL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; CODON, NONSENSE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EXONS; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0642306396     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(03)00176-2     Document Type: Short Survey

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