Identifying the right stop: Determining how the surveillance complex recognizes and degrades an aberrant mRNA

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 575-589

  Ruiz Echevarría, Maria J ^a   González, Carlos I ^a   Peltz, Stuart W ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

cis acting instability elements; cis acting stability elements; mRNA decay; Nonsense mutations; Translation termination

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

CODON; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN KINASES; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 18844463753     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.2.575     Document Type: Article

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