Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) in animal embryogenesis: To die or not to die, that is the question

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 422-430

  Hwang, Jungwook ^a   Maquat, Lynne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA HELICASE;

CELL FUNCTION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; ZEBRA FISH;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; RNA HELICASES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 79960902609     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: 18790380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2011.03.008     Document Type: Review

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