Unspliced precursors of NMD-sensitive β-globin transcripts exhibit decreased steady-state levels in erythroid cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Morgado, Ana ^a,c   Almeida, Fátima ^a,d   Teixeira, Alexandre ^a,b   Silva, Ana Luísa ^a,c,e   Romão, Luísa ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^b NOVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d INFARMED)   (Portugal)

^e INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DE ONCOLOGIA DE LISBOA FRANCISCO GENTIL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROID CELL; ERYTHROLEUKEMIA CELL; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STEADY STATE; STOP CODON; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CODON; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HALF LIFE TIME; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BETA-GLOBINS; CODON; CODON, NONSENSE; ERYTHROID CELLS; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, REPORTER; HALF-LIFE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; KINETICS; MICE; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84861855326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038505     Document Type: Article

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