Transmitting the message: intracellular mRNA localization

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 112-119

  Meignin, Carine ^a   Davis, Ilan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 83; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN ASH 1; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

CELL MIGRATION; CELL POLARITY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANSLATION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 75749098137     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2009.11.011     Document Type: Review

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