FMRP and its target RNAs: Fishing for the specificity

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 2447-2450

  Veneri, Massimiliano ^a   Zalfa, Francesca ^a,b   Bagni, Claudia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

BC1; Fragile X mental retardation protein; G quartet; Micro RNAs; Translational regulation

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 9644300809     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200411150-00002     Document Type: Review

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