The upstream open reading frame of the Arabidopsis AtMHX gene has a strong impact on transcript accumulation through the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway

Plant Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1031-1042

  Saul, Helen ^a   Elharrar, Einat ^a   Gaash, Rachel ^a   Eliaz, Dror ^a   Valenci, Meital ^a   Akua, Tsofit ^a   Avramov, Meital ^a   Frankel, Neta ^a   Berezin, Irina ^a   Gottlieb, Dror ^a   Elazar, Meirav ^a   David Assael, Ora ^a   Tcherkas, Vered ^a   Mizrachi, Keren ^a   Shaul, Orit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

MRNA content; NMD; Translational regulation; UORF; UPF1; UPF3

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ATMHX PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL DNA; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; PLANT RNA; T DNA; T-DNA; UPF3 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; REPORTER GENE; RNA STABILITY; STOP CODON;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANTIPORTERS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CODON, NONSENSE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; INTRONS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS;

EID: 71649110895     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.04021.x     Document Type: Article

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