Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay: Degradation of Defective Transcripts Is only Part of the Story

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 339-366

  He, Feng ^a   Jacobson, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Quality control; Ribosome dissociation; Translation termination; Upf proteins

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SMG1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UPF1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; UPF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; UPF3A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DISSOCIATION; EXON; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RECYCLING; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PEPTIDE CHAIN TERMINATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84948744028     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-112414-054639     Document Type: Article

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