Effects of mRNA untranslated regions on translational efficiency of NMDA receptor subunits

NeuroSignals

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 194-206

  VanDongen, Antonius M J ^a   VanDongen, Hendrika M A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3 UTR; 5 UTR; mRNA; mRNA stability; mRNA trafficking; Protein synthesis; Ribosome

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CODON; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DENDRITES; EFFICIENCY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPSES; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 2542605345     PISSN: 1424862X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077526     Document Type: Review

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