In the right place at the right time: Visualizing and understanding mRNA localization

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 95-109

  Buxbaum, Adina R ^a   Haimovich, Gal ^a,b   Singer, Robert H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KINESIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MYOSIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

BACTERIA; CELL FATE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMICAL LABELING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FOCAL ADHESION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MATING TYPE; MEMBRANE BIOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA TRANSPORT; YEAST; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; HUMANS; NEURONS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84923198503     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3918     Document Type: Review

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