Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: Molecular insights and mechanistic variations across species

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 316-325

  Conti, Elena ^a   Izaurralde, Elisa ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SKI; PROTEIN UPF 1; PROTEIN UPF 2; PROTEIN UPF 3; PROTEIN XRN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL JUNCTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; METAZOON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MESSENGER RIBONUCLEIC ACID DECAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOP CODON; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CODON, NONSENSE; EXORIBONUCLEASES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 19344374029     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2005.04.005     Document Type: Review

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