Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay of collagen -emerging complexity in RNA surveillance mechanisms

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2551-2560

  Fang, Yiwen ^a,b   Bateman, John F ^a,c   Mercer, Julian F ^b   Lamandé, Shireen R ^a,c  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collagen; mRNA; mRNA decay; Premature stop codon

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; COL10A1 GENE; COL1A1 GENE; COL6A1 GENE; COL6A2 GENE; EXON; GENE; GENETIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; NONSENSE MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA SPLICING;

COLLAGEN; MRNA; MRNA DECAY; PREMATURE STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; CODON, NONSENSE; COLLAGEN; EXONS; HUMANS; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA; RNA STABILITY;

EID: 84879849346     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.120220     Document Type: Article

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