Inducing nonsense suppression by targeted pseudouridylation

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 789-800

  Huang, Chao ^a   Wu, Guowei ^a   Yu, Yi Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PSEUDOURIDINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CODON; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRM4 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CODON, NONSENSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC THERAPY; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOURIDINE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84861786430     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.029     Document Type: Article

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