Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein FMRP binds mRNAs in the nucleus

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 214-228

  Kim, Miri ^b   Bellini, Michel ^b   Ceman, Stephanie ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 5; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; ANTIBODY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEIN; VIRUS T ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN COS7; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR EXPORT SIGNAL; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; XENOPUS; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AMPHIBIA; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIGENS, POLYOMAVIRUS TRANSFORMING; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; XENOPUS;

EID: 58149476939     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01377-08     Document Type: Article

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