The mammalian TRIM-NHL protein TRIM71/LIN-41 is a repressor of mRNA function

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 518-532

  Loedige, Inga ^a,c   Gaidatzis, Dimos ^a,b   Sack, Ragna ^a   Meister, Gunter ^c   Filipowicz, Witold ^a,d  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN P107; PROTEIN P130; TRIPARTITE MOTIF PROTEIN 71; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA DEGRADATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84871745666     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1032     Document Type: Article

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