Coiled bodies and U2 snRNA genes adjacent to coiled bodies are enriched in factors required for snRNA transcription

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1025-1036

  Schul, Wouter ^a   Van Driel, Roel ^a   De Jong, Luitzen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031667334     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.9.5.1025     Document Type: Article

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