Post-transcriptional and post-translational regulation during mouse oocyte maturation

BMB Reports

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 147-157

  Kang, Min Kook ^a   Han, Seung Jin ^a  

^a Inje University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3' UTR; 5' cap; Closed loop structure; Meiosis; RNA binding protein

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MEIOSIS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MEIOSIS; MICE; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 79953221875     PISSN: 19766696     EISSN: 1976670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5483/BMBRep.2011.44.3.147     Document Type: Review

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