Inhibition of translation in living eukaryotic cells by an RNA G-quadruplex motif

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1290-1296

  Arora, Amit ^a,b   Dutkiewicz, Mariola ^a   Scaria, Vinod ^b   Hariharan, Manoj ^b   Maiti, Souvik ^b   Kurreck, Jens ^a,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

G quadruplex; RNA structure; Translational repression; Zic 1

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN ZIC1; RNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZIC1 GENE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 45749139174     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1001708     Document Type: Article

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