Does protein synthesis occur in the nucleus?

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 335-338

  Dahlberg, James E ^a   Lund, Elsebet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

ESE; exonic splicing enhancer; GFP; green fluorescent protein; NAS; NMD; nonsense associated altered splicing; nonsense mediated mRNA decay; premature termination codon; PTC; T cell receptor ; TCR

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CODON; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CODON, TERMINATOR; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 2342640073     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2004.03.006     Document Type: Review

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