3'-UTR-located inverted Alu repeats facilitate mRNA translational repression and stress granule accumulation

Nucleus (United States)

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 359-369

  Fitzpatrick, Terry ^a   Huang, Sui ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3' untranslated region; Alu; Inverted repeats; MRNA; Stress granules

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; STRESS GRANULE; TRANSLATION REGULATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL GRANULE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALU ELEMENTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84863830670     PISSN: 19491034     EISSN: 19491042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/nucl.20827     Document Type: Article

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