Frame-disrupting mutations elicit pre-mRNA accumulation independently of frame disruption

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1559-1574

  Saadi Imam, J ^a,c   Gudikote, Jayanthi P ^a   Chan, Wai Kin ^a   Wilkinson, Miles F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VDJ EXON;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77951658657     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp1115     Document Type: Article

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