Regulation of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: Implications for physiology and disease

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1829, Issue 6-7, 2013, Pages 624-633

  Karam, Rachid ^a   Wengrod, Jordan ^a,b,c   Gardner, Lawrence B ^a,b,c   Wilkinson, Miles F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ATF4; Cancer; EIF2 ; MicroRNA; MiR 128; NMD

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 128; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; STAUFEN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AUTOREGULATION; BINDING COMPETITION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL MATURATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; INTEGRATED STRESS RESPONSE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; STOP CODON; STRESS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

CODON, NONSENSE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84877830445     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2013.03.002     Document Type: Review

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