mRNA localisation gets more complex

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 300-307

  Van De Bor, Veronique ^a   Davis, Ilan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bcd; bicaudal D; BicD; bicoid; double stranded RNA binding domain; dsRBD; egalitarian; Egl; Grk; gurken; Hairy localisation elements; heterogenous nuclear ribonucleoprotein; HLE; HnRNP; LE; localisation element; NMD; nonsense mediated decay; nt; nucleotide; Osk; oskar

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN VEGT; PROTEIN VG1; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 2342628401     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2004.03.008     Document Type: Review

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