eIF4AIII binds spliced mRNA in the exon junction complex and is essential for nonsense-mediated decay

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 346-351

  Shibuya, Toshiharu ^a   Tange, Thomas Ø ^a   Sonenberg, Nahum ^b   Moore, Melissa J ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 4A; INITIATION FACTOR 4A3; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN EXON JUNCTION COMPLEX; RNA HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOPLASM; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTE; EXON; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; STOP CODON;

BINDING SITES; CODON, NONSENSE; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4A; EXONS; GENES, REPORTER; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; KINETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 1842577707     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb750     Document Type: Article

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