Involvement of the carboxyl terminus of vertebrate poly(A)polymerase in U1A autoregulation and in the coupling of splicing and polyadenylation

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 761-773

  Gunderson, Samuel I ^a,b   Vagner, Stéphan ^a   Polycarpou Schwarz, Maria ^a   Mattaj, Lain W ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cleavage and polyadenylation; poly(A) polymerase; pre mRNA splicing; RNA processing; U1A protein

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; POLYNUCLEOTIDE ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ADENYLATION; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031004560     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.6.761     Document Type: Article

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