AUG sequences are required to sustain nonsense-codon-mediated suppression of splicing

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3421-3433

  Kamhi, Eyal ^a   Yahalom, Galit ^a   Kass, Gideon ^a   Hacham, Yael ^a   Sperling, Ruth ^b   Sperling, Joseph ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; CAD TRIFUNCTIONAL ENZYME; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE HYDROLYSING); DIHYDROOROTASE; MESSENGER RNA; PACTAMYCIN; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR; RNA PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; ASPARTATE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE; CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE-HYDROLYZING); CELL LINE; CODON, INITIATOR; CODON, NONSENSE; CRICETINAE; DIHYDROOROTASE; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PACTAMYCIN; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33746835444     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl390     Document Type: Article

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