PABPN1: Molecular function and muscle disease

FEBS Journal

Volumn 280, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 4230-4250

  Banerjee, Ayan ^a   Apponi, Luciano H ^a   Pavlath, Grace K ^a   Corbett, Anita H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative cleavage polyadenylation; muscle disease; nuclear aggregates; oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy; PABPN1; poly(A) RNA binding protein; polyadenylation; RNA processing

Indexed keywords

POLYADENOSINE RNA BINDING PROTEIN POLYADENYLATE BINDING NUCLEAR PROTEIN 1; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING AFFINITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CULTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OCULOPHARYNGEAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PAB2; PABPN1 GENE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALTERNATIVE CLEAVAGE/POLYADENYLATION; MUSCLE DISEASE; NUCLEAR AGGREGATES; OCULOPHARYNGEAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PABPN1; POLY(A) RNA BINDING PROTEIN; POLYADENYLATION; RNA PROCESSING;

HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, OCULOPHARYNGEAL; POLY(A)-BINDING PROTEIN I;

EID: 84882714408     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.12294     Document Type: Review

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