Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: Splicing, translation and mRNP dynamics

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 89-99

  Maquat, Lynne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SELENOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EXON; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CODON, NONSENSE; EXONS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA CAPS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0742323558     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1310     Document Type: Review

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