Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay mutation in Aspergillus nidulans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1838-1846

  Morozov, Igor Y ^a   Negrete Urtasun, Susana ^b   Tilburn, Joan ^b   Jansen, Christine A ^b,c   Caddick, Mark X ^a   Arst Jr , Herbert N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA PROTEIN, ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITROGEN; NMD2 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; URATE OXIDASE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RNA STABILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CODON, NONSENSE; EXONS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; RNA STABILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URATE OXIDASE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33751231132     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00220-06     Document Type: Article

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