Nuclear surveillance of RNA polymerase II transcripts

RNA Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 220-224

  Sperling, Joseph ^a   Sperling, Ruth ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Nonsense mediated altered splicing (NAS); Nuclear RNA surveillance; Pre mRNA splicing; Premature termination codon; Stop codon mediated suppression of splicing (SOS)

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL NUCLEUS; CODON; CYTOPLASM; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INTRON; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME; STOP CODON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 57349162135     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.7162     Document Type: Review

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