Control of mRNA stability in fungi by NMD, EJC and CBC factors through 3′UTR introns

Genetics

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1133-1148

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Sachs, Matthew S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cap binding complex (CBC); Exon junction complex (EJC); Neurospora crassa; Nonsense mediated mRNA decay (NMD); Post transcriptional control; Ribosome; RNA stability; Spliced 3 UTR intron; Translation

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NUCLEAR CAP BINDING PROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR; STOP CODON;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON JUNCTION COMPLEX; GENE CONTROL; INTRON; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; NUCLEAR CAP BINDING COMPLEX; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIBOSOME; RNA STABILITY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; STOP CODON;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CODON, NONSENSE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NUCLEAR CAP-BINDING PROTEIN COMPLEX; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA STABILITY;

EID: 84939456263     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.176743     Document Type: Article

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