Caenorhabditis elegans SMG-2 Selectively Marks mRNAs Containing Premature Translation Termination Codons
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular and Cellular Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0270-7306,1098-5549
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00410-07