Surveillance and cleavage of eukaryotic tRNAs

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1873-1893

  Megel, Cyrille ^a   Morelle, Geoffrey ^a,b   Lalande, Stéphanie ^a   Duchêne, Anne Marie ^a   Small, Ian ^b   Maréchal Drouard, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene expression regulation; SncRNAs; Stress response; tRFs; tRNA decay; tRNA endonucleases; tRNA quality control

Indexed keywords

EXORIBONUCLEASE; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSFER RNA; ENDONUCLEASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; ISOMERIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA CLEAVAGE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMOSTABILITY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; METABOLISM; RNA STABILITY;

EUKARYOTA;

ENDONUCLEASES; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84921454960     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms16011873     Document Type: Article

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