Exon Junction Complexes: Supervising the Gene Expression Assembly Line

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 724-735

  Boehm, Volker ^a   Gehring, Niels H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

mRNA processing; mRNA transport; mRNA turnover; mRNP; nonsense mediated mRNA decay; RNA binding protein

Indexed keywords

EXON JUNCTION COMPLEX; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA PRECURSOR;

EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; RNA STABILITY;

EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84994406773     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2016.09.003     Document Type: Review

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