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Overview

Nancy Standart is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily resides within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology as a sub-discipline.

Their research topics include:

  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Standart has contributed to the academic literature with recent papers including:

  • "Mutations in genes encoding regulators of mRNA decapping and translation initiation: links to intellectual disability" (2020), published in Biochemical Society Transactions
  • "Richard Jackson (1940-2020) - A towering presence in translation" (2021), published in The EMBO Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Standart include:

  • Dominique Weil
  • Amélie Piton
  • Davor Lessel
  • John W.B. Hershey
  • Michael B. Mathews

Standart's research has been presented in several publication venues, notably:

  • Biochemical Society Transactions
  • The EMBO Journal

Best Publications

  • Do the poly(A) tail and 3′ untranslated region control mRNA translation?

    Richard J. Jackson;Nancy Standart

  • How Do MicroRNAs Regulate Gene Expression

    Richard J. Jackson;Nancy Standart

  • Asymmetrical β-actin mRNA translation in growth cones mediates attractive turning to netrin-1

    Kin-Mei Leung;Francisca P G van Horck;Andrew C Lin;Rachel Allison

  • RNA-binding protein conserved in both microtubule- and microfilament-based RNA localization

    Leora Havin;Anna Git;Zichrini Elisha;Froma Oberman

  • The role of cyclin synthesis, modification and destruction in the control of cell division.

    Jeremy Minshull;Jon Pines;Roy Golsteyn;Nancy Standart

  • P-Bodies: Cytosolic Droplets for Coordinated mRNA Storage.

    Nancy Standart;Dominique Weil

  • CPEB Interacts with an Ovary-specific eIF4E and 4E-T in Early Xenopus Oocytes

    Nicola Minshall;Marie Helene Reiter;Dominique Weil;Nancy Standart

  • A conserved role of a DEAD box helicase in mRNA masking.

    Nicola Minshall;George Thom;Nancy Standart

  • Cyclin synthesis, modification and destruction during meiotic maturation of the starfish oocyte.

    Nancy Standart;Jeremy Minshull;Jonathon Pines;Tim Hunt

  • P-body assembly requires DDX6 repression complexes rather than decay or Ataxin2/2L complexes

    Jessica Ayache;Marianne Bénard;Michèle Ernoult-Lange;Nicola Minshall

  • A novel embryonic poly(A) binding protein, ePAB, regulates mRNA deadenylation in Xenopus egg extracts

    Gia K. Voeltz;Julina Ongkasuwan;Nancy Standart;Joan A. Steitz

  • MicroRNAs repress translation of m7Gppp-capped target mRNAs in vitro by inhibiting initiation and promoting deadenylation.

    Nancy Standart;Richard J. Jackson

  • GC content shapes mRNA storage and decay in human cells.

    Maïté Courel;Yves Clément;Clémentine Bossevain;Dominika Foretek

  • The active form of Xp54 RNA helicase in translational repression is an RNA‐mediated oligomer

    Nicola Minshall;Nancy Standart

  • Autoregulation of poly(A)-binding protein synthesis in vitro

    O P de Melo Neto;N Standart;C Martins de Sa

  • Structure of a Human 4E-T/DDX6/CNOT1 Complex Reveals the Different Interplay of DDX6-Binding Proteins with the CCR4-NOT Complex

    Sevim Ozgur;Jérôme Basquin;Anastasiia Kamenska;Witold Filipowicz

  • Role of p54 RNA Helicase Activity and Its C-terminal Domain in Translational Repression, P-body Localization and Assembly

    Nicola Minshall;Michel Kress;Dominique Weil;Nancy Standart

  • The small subunit of ribonucleotide reductase is encoded by one of the most abundant translationally regulated maternal RNAs in clam and sea urchin eggs.

    N M Standart;S J Bray;E L George;T Hunt

  • The DDX6–4E-T interaction mediates translational repression and P-body assembly

    Anastasiia Kamenska;Clare Simpson;Caroline Vindry;Helen Broomhead

  • Translation initiation in Leishmania major: characterisation of multiple eIF4F subunit homologues

    Rafael Dhalia;Christian R.S. Reis;Christian R.S. Reis;Eden R. Freire;Eden R. Freire;Pollyanna O. Rocha;Pollyanna O. Rocha

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Hunt
Tim Hunt University of Cambridge
James A. Walker
James A. Walker Harvard University
Joan V. Ruderman
Joan V. Ruderman Harvard University
Mark Carrington
Mark Carrington University of Cambridge
Edward Darzynkiewicz
Edward Darzynkiewicz University of Warsaw
Eric A. Miska
Eric A. Miska University of Cambridge
Joan A. Steitz
Joan A. Steitz Yale University
Amélie Piton
Amélie Piton University of Strasbourg
Menachem Fromer
Menachem Fromer Broad Institute
Witold Filipowicz
Witold Filipowicz Friedrich Miescher Institute

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