The exon junction complex as a node of post-transcriptional networks

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 41-54

  Hir, Hervé Le ^a   Saulière, Jérôme ^b   Wang, Zhen ^c  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXON JUNCTION COMPLEX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSPORT; SPLICEOSOME; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; RNA STABILITY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE; EXONS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84952638804     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2015.7     Document Type: Review

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