Genes for murine Y1 and Y3 Ro RNAs have class 3 RNA polymerase III promoter structures and are unlinked on mouse chromosome 6

Gene

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-42

  Farris, A Darise ^a,b   Gross, Joanne K ^a   Hanas, Jay S ^b   Harley, John B ^a,b  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Gene mapping; hY RNA; In vitro transcription; Mouse; Nucleotide sequence; Ribonucleoprotein; Ro RNP; Small cytoplasmic RNA; Y RNA; YRNA

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHROMOSOME 6; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MURINAE; MUS SPRETUS;

EID: 0030603243     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00279-X     Document Type: Article

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