Nonsense surveillance regulates expression of diverse classes of mammalian transcripts and mutes genomic noise

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1073-1078

  Mendell, Joshua T ^a   Sharifi, Neda A ^a   Meyers, Jennifer L ^a   Martinez Murillo, Francisco ^a   Dietz, Harry C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOSTASIS; INTRON; MAMMAL CELL; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; RETROVIRUS; STOP CODON; TRANSPOSON; UPREGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; RENT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACIDS; CODON, NONSENSE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 6944256813     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1429     Document Type: Article

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