Identification of genes in toxicity pathways of trinucleotide-repeat RNA in C. elegans

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 712-720

  Garcia, Susana M D A ^a,b   Tabach, Yuval ^a,b   Lourenço, Guinevere F ^a,b   Armakola, Maria ^a,b   Ruvkun, Gary ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FIBROBLASTS; GENES, HELMINTH; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLES; MUTATION; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; RNA, HELMINTH; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 84905661504     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2858     Document Type: Article

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