Premature termination codons do not affect the rate of splicing of neighboring introns

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 657-668

  Lytle, J Robin ^a   Steitz, Joan A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DHFR; Ig ; Nonsense; Nonsense mediated decay; Pre mRNA splicing; Quantitative RT PCR; RNase protection

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE REARRANGEMENT; INTRON; MAMMAL CELL; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STEADY STATE; STOP CODON; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CODON, NONSENSE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; INTRONS; POLYADENYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; TETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 1642528941     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5241404     Document Type: Article

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